Links of our Lives: First Week of October

0Josh • 8th Oct 2008 • blog entries, i'm a nerd, Links, nome.

Its been another big month, for both us and really the world in general.  We’re less than 30 days away from what I believe is turning out to be one of the biggest elections in American history.  Some of the links this round are politically related, but in ways other than focusing on the candidates themselves.  So, take a look and enjoy what I’ve enjoyed reading the most over the last few weeks.

Olympus previews next generation Digital SLR, with style

It’s called “micro four thirds” technology, and its going to make our digital pictures crisper, cleaner, and more colorful.  It allows camera manufacturers to create cameras with the quality of DSLR cameras, in a smaller and lighter package.  Olympus showed off a prototype of this new format recently that is both small, but also could be the most stylish digital camera we’ve seen in quite a long time.

The 269 tie: An electoral college ‘doomsday’?

This Washington Times article poses the interesting question, what would happen if on election day, there was a tie in electoral college votes?  The constitution tries to clarify what the procedure would be, but that isn’t even clean enough.  “Sound impossible? It’s not. There are at least a half-dozen plausible ways the election can end in a tie” We’re looking at one of those scenarios right now if the candidates hold onto the states they are leading in, with the exception of New Hampshire (which went Republican in 2000 and Democratic in 2004, each time by just 1.5 percent). This would make the 2000 election look like a student council runoff.

Covering Sarah Palin campaign from the Nome front

Steve Lopez, whom I found to be a bit snarky, and very sarcastic recently flew all the way from Los Angeles to Nome Alaska to cover the Sarah Palin campaign and talk to some “real Alaskans”.   Its an offbeat article that inverviews many people that we knew from living in Nome a few years ago…. and does provide some true Nome local flavor.

China prematurely describes space flight in article before it ever happens

China’s official news agency posted a story on their website describing in detail, and with quotes from astronauts the success of the country’s first space flight. The problem was that the flight wasn’t due to launch for another few days.  This takes running prepared obituaries to a whole new level, and makes you question how the news is reported in the world’s most powerful communist country.