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Obama Admits to Never Using Twitter

jcenters — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:13:59 +0000

Despite having over 2.6 million followers on his Twitter account, @BarackObama admitted to a Chinese audience that he has never used the service.

“I have never used Twitter, but I’m an advocate of technology and not restricting Internet access," Obama told an audience of Shanghai youth on Sunday.

"My thumbs are too clumsy to type in things on the phone," the president added.

Then what the heck is he doing on that Blackberry all the time? Playing tetris?

Yeah, he just broke 10 million points. Top that, Palin.

McCain, Barr Supporters Lost Testosterone After Obama Election

jcenters — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:02:29 +0000

Duke University and the University of Michigan performed a joint study showing that the testosterone levels of male John McCain and Bob Barr supporters plummeted after the results of the 2008 election.

Females and Obama supporters did not show a change in hormone levels.

"This is a pretty powerful result," said Duke neuroscientist Kevin LaBar. "Voters are physiologically affected by having their candidate win or lose an election."

The tests were performed on 183 college-aged men and women on election night. They each chewed a piece of gum and spit it into a sample tube when the polls closed. They provided a second sample after the results came in, and then two more in 40 minute span. The spit was later tested for hormone levels.

"Voters participate in elections both directly by casting their ballots, and vicariously because they don’t personally win or lose the election," said researcher Steven Stanton. "This makes democratic political elections highly unique dominance contests."

Did the guys wimp out because Obama won, or because they realized that Sarah Palin wouldn’t be on television as much anymore? I’ll let you be the judge.

How Social Networks Won Obama the Election

jcenters — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 01:43:48 +0000

John Mancini, of Infonomics Magazine and Digital Landfill, has posted an interesting presentation explaining how social networks helped Barrack Obama win the White House.

"They didn’t view their online presence as an adjunct to the campaign, it was the campaign," Mancini says.

Some staggering numbers from the presentation:

The Obama campaign owned a 100 different websites, in addition to its presence on popular social networks like Facebook and Twitter.
It had over 3 million individual contributors.
Obama supporters organized 100,000 events.
By the end of the campaign, it had obtained 13 million email addresses.

Here’s the video:

Obama Mandates Greener Government

jcenters — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:58:42 +0000

President Obama signed an executive order today ordering federal agencies to reduce consumption and emissions by 2030.

"As the largest consumer of energy in the U.S. economy, the Federal government can and should lead by example when it comes to creating innovative ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, increase energy efficiency, conserve water, reduce waste, and use environmentally-responsible products and technologies,” Obama said.

Here’s a brief timeline of the executive order:

50% recycling and waste diversion by 2015.
30% reduction in petroleum use by 2020.
26% greater water efficiency by 2020.
Net-zero-energy buildings by 2030.

Federal agencies will also be required to measure carbon emissions for the first time, including those from commuting employees.

The White House says that the new efficiency standards will save taxpayers money. I wonder if they apply to the Department of Defense?

Update 21:30 CST: “The executive order requires agencies to ‘measure, manage, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions toward agency-defined targets.’” So I guess that’s a big NO.