Category: Politics
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Déjà Vu
MoveOn has a new ad comparing Bush’s constitutional scandals with Nixon’s, and it contains one of the best morphs I’ve ever seen. Not technically the best, not even all that conceptually inventive, but somehow still it’s pretty amazing. I spent a few minutes trying to find juuuust the right frame at which the face seems…
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Vote 2004
Hi there! This message is for my old Upper Darby High School friends and classmates. Even if you didn’t know me, or if you didn’t like me, (or even if you didn’t go to Upper Darby High School!) this message is also for you. I hope that if this message means anything to you, that…
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Radio Buttons & Checkboxes
The political organization Move On is sponsoring a kind of online 2-day “straw poll” (Tuesday and Wednesday) to determine if (and potentially who) they will endorse for the Democratic nomination for the US presidential The design of their online ballot is very interesting… The first column asks you to pick a single candidate, and the…
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Politics and War Games
Hezbollah has published a video game called “Special Force“, in which the player’s job is to, well, kill Israeli Jews. Many are surprised to see politics injected into the fantasy world of video games. To me this isn’t surprising nor is it new. Any game which simulates real-world events is inherently political. A typical example…