This fast-rising US Senator has a podcast on his Senate website. Worth checking out, just to see if he’s Presidential quality.
I never forgot his moving speech at the 2004 Democratic Convention, which is one of my all-time favourites. (Youtube link, text transcript)
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Petition against Bush and Blair getting nominated for the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize. Marvel with me on how one of my web design heroes, Joshua Davis, ended up designing a web special for the same VW model as I: the Phaeton. He designed the US site while I designed the Asia-Pacific site. Naturally, his Flash…
In the space of an hour, I received 18 search engine referrals for people inquiring about the Bijani twins, an operation which my father is involved in (he does the relatively easy part of stitching them up after the main operation). The official Raffles Hospital webpage is here. From what I know, the sisters appear…
I decided to pop by Doonesbury.com for my fix of political cartoons, and came across this strip (14 Oct 2004) which mentioned an unimaginably long URL. Being curious, I decided to type it out. I typed wrongly, because I got an error message. But it wasn’t a normal error message as the newspaper seemed to…
Salam Pax, the famous Iraqi blogger, has finally found his friend Raed. They now blog together on the same site. You can also watch Salam in the award-winning BBC series, Newsnight.
Look at [Digg’s US Elections page](http://digg.com/2008_us_elections), and it’s all about [Barack Obama](http://www.barackobama.com/) at the moment. It’s generally positive news about him, and if there is mention of Hillary Clinton, it’s negative. The hottest article right now is one by the New York Post which states that [Obama received more votes than initially reported](http://www.nypost.com/seven/02162008/news/regionalnews/obama_robbed_in_ny_97932.htm?date=20080217). If you…
Israeli ‘traitor’ released from jail. Based on the doctrine of pre-emption, which the Bush administration used to justify the invasion of Iraq, should the US now do likewise to Israel for the suspected possession of weapons of mass destruction? Or will the doctrine of pre-emption be non-retroactive, since the secrets were leaked in 1986? 🙂