Monthly Archives: February 2009

The Web Was Always Awesome – Even in 1996

By Andy Sternberg | Published: 26 February 2009
It’s 1996. People still refer to the new medium by its full name—the World Wide Web—and although you sometimes find interesting stuff here, you’re constantly struck by how little there is to do. You rarely linger on the Web… Reading this article by Slate technology writer Farhad Manjoo, I’m thinking perhaps I’m just a few years older [...]
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Baseball Time is Here Again

By Andy Sternberg | Published: 25 February 2009
It’s been a long offseason and, as a die-hard Cubs fan, it’s taking longer than normal to get psyched up for this season. I was more optimistic than normal last year and vested much energy into the Cubs playoff run only to see my Cubs swept out immediately. No consolation that the Dodgers knocked them [...]
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WATCH: President Obama’s First Speech to Congress

By Andy Sternberg | Published: 24 February 2009
MSNBC allows embedding of their Live Coverage of President Obama. This will undoubtedly be a somber speech -- dubbed the non-State of the Union (presidents generally don't give an SOTU address their first year in office). But only five weeks after taking office, the U.S. economy has continued to spiral into the ground and Obama -- whose cabinet is still not complete -- will address both houses of Congress. Facebook is reprising its collaboration with CNN's live coverage via http://facebook.com/cnn and on Twitter, the hashtag is #nSOTU.
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