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Obama’s First Weekly YouTube Address

President-elect Barack Obama has started posting weekly video addresses on YouTube. As president, Obama will will deliver both the traditional weekly radio address and a weekly YouTube address. The “weekly fireside coffee talks” are a throwback to FDR, who delivered 30 evening radio addresses between 1933 and 1944 (Wikipedia: Fireside chats).
I think the weekly YouTube [...]

If the World Could Vote?

The President of the United States has a large global influence, yet the world has no say in who we elect president. If the world could vote? is a website that detects your location based on IP and let’s the whole world vote (albeit, entirely unofficially).
http://www.iftheworldcouldvote.com/

Sarah Palin Strikes Out in PA

On her stop in Pittsburgh, Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin congratulated the Philadelphia Phillies on their World Series victory. Pirates fans didn’t like that.

Baseball Statistics vs. Electoral Projections

Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight was interviewed earlier this month by Dan Rather. In the interview, he talks about his interest in statistics with baseball, how it compares to political projections, and how projections are done. Silver created the baseball PECOTA sabermetric system in 2002-2003, and sold it to Baseball Prospectus in 2003. Silver is a [...]

Wazzup, Eight Years Later

The original Budweiser Whassup? advertising campaign ran from 1999-2002. Now, the original cast members are back in a politically motivated video posted to YouTube:

Here’s the original if you don’t remember: