Rabidgremlin’s Soapbox

Fantastic chart showing what the last 12 US presidents did in their first 100 days in office:

Pretty inspiring stuff ! (sorry about the 30 seconds of ads, but this was the best video clip I could find):

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I was slightly alarmed by the “cultish” “yes we can” chanting.
Its a great pity our own NZ politicians are so blah. BTW if you are still not sure who you are voting, [...]

In my last post I joked about see games on billboards in games, turns out that EA already does this and Obama is using them to spread his vote-for-change message.
Obama has ads in 18 different games including Guitar Hero 3 , The Incredible Hulk, NASCAR 09, NBA Live 08 , NFL Tour and Burnout Paradise.
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I really struggle to wrap my head around economics sometimes and the US (or is it a global) economic crisis is all pretty confusing (and crazy with the $700 billion dollar bail out bill getting the go ahead).
Newsweek has an good article on who is to blame, basically it highlights that there is no one [...]

One of the things that bugs me most about NZ politics is that there isn’t a political party that I actually like.
Every election I basically sift through all the FUD to try and identify the parties that seems less likely to screw things up. I then cast my votes and hope that for the next [...]