Since the dawn of times, porn websites used to be at the tip of the spear for all the web development technology. They were the first ones to use cookies, forms, online payments, streaming video, browser fingerprinting, responsive design and more. It’s good to see that political activism is trying to catch up. Enjoy TrumpDonald.org!
FactCheckEU is a fact-checking website that monitors MEPs and other EU politicians ahead of the 2014 European Parliament elections and checks if their numbers are correct.
I haven’t been following the US presidential race closely. I remember watching a few speeches by Ron Paul, and thinking that he is a really nice guy. But somehow I doubted that he could win. Barack Obama’s speeches were the next best thing, even though I saw just a few of them. Here is a quote from Slashdot discussion on the subject, that I particularly enjoyed:
The thing that absolutely amazes me is the international reaction to Obama’s win. I knew that the reputation of America and Americans had been battered over the past few years, but I never suspected that it was as bad as it was. I watched the results last night, said a little “huzzah!” when Obama was declared, listened as McCain gave a warm, dignified, and gentlemanly concession speech, and then went to bed thinking I’d seen it all. I woke up at about 4:45 this morning and I’ve been flipping between news stations ever since. I got a little emotional last night during the speeches, but I’m absolutely devastated by the number of non-Americans who are dancing in the streets over Obama’s win. I never thought I’d see video of a few hundred Chinese people jumping around and chanting “Obama! Obama!” A reporter in France walked up to a woman and simply said “Obama?” Her face lit up and she simply said “C’est formidable!” Kenyans are throwing feasts in his honor. Arab and Persian states are happy. Israel is happy. Pakistan is happy. Australians are losing their damned minds over it. Russia is… well, they’re kinda grumpy, but they’re not having a good year.
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Well, I guess I am in the happy and joyful crowd. It feels like something big happened. But we are yet to see if this feeling has any substance.
Cyprus is preparing for the presidential elections, which will take place this coming Sunday – February 17th, 2008 – and then another Sunday after that – February 24th, 2008. Unfortunately, most of the information about the elections is in Greek, so there isn’t much point in linking to it or quoting it.
Anyway, I came across this post in Linkbox blog, which links to web sites of some candidates, as well as the main web site of the elections. Being a curious web worker, I wanted to see which tools these web sites use, and how well they use them. Here are my findings.
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I’m not usually very political. I don’t care much about elections, campaigns, politics or policies, and things like that. But that didn’t stop me from watching the USA presidency candidate talks at Google. Here are the names and what I think of them: