Official-BS would like to sincerely congratulate President-elect Barack Obama for winning the presidential election of 2008. His victory marks the end of an era of agression, radical policies and counterproductive legislature against progress in the fields of education and research. Barack Obama will be the first half-Black, lefthanded president of the United States of America, as well as the first President in a long time to be funded solely by the people rather than by corporations and lobbyists. The amount of political leverage the man has is staggering and it will be interesting to watch what he does with his justly earned power. The challenges that lie ahead won’t all be overcome in the next four years, but it certainly won’t take much effort to outdo Dubbya, whose flaws we need not mention. Many people have fears that Obama will not go through with measures they feel are necessary and that he will go through with measures that are shortsighted or might cause a tax increase. While these are all valid reasons to be worried, the country has been on a decline in terms of overall success and changing the policies that have brought it to its current state likely will not make things any worse than they are already. Besides, a tax increase can only help get the staggering national debt under control. One thing is certain - Barack Obama will probably be entering the busiest time of his life, and the world will be watching every minute of it.

Jose Caceres’ Macbook was stolen on September 4th. He left his Macbook ontop of his car while he ran into his home carrying other things. When he returned, his Macbook was gone. Jose used A remote access application called Logmein was used in this case to track the thief.

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It’s been around a week since the unprecedented bailout plan was proposed to save Wall Street. The plan that was devised in desperation to avoid a repeat of the great depression is intended to provide quick relief to the failing mortgage market. As one might have expected, politics has been and will continue to stall the implementation of the big bailout - perhaps until it is too late.

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In a recent study it was found that many eighth grade students are complete idiots at math who are outdone by their eight year old peers.

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Electronic Arts is well known in the videogame industry and its followers for doing many things wrong, unethical and at times just plain stupid. Their latest blockbuster game Spore hit store shelves last week as many people turned to alternative sources to acquire the game in record numbers. While this is expected for a release of this caliber, the reason why many people are not buying the game at retailers is a little different - DRM.

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Christmas came early for AIG today as the Federal Reserve announced it was going to provide an 85 billion dollar 2 year loan to keep the global investment firm afloat. Apparently it takes that much money to prevent an event worse shitstorm from occuring.

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What a crazy day - at 8 in the morning the first thing I see in the news is that Lehman Bros. had plummeted to $3.50 and that the Dow fell 384 points… before trading even began.

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In the world of journalism, there are different kinds of people - those who report the news the way it is, and those who cause news to happen. A part of the latter movement is what we know as the paparazzi. These people will do anything to take pictures of famous people and celebreties (famous people) in situations that would publicly humiliate them. Kanye West wouldn’t have any of that.

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We live in a world of high environmental awareness and initiative. Global warming is a much talked about topic among academia, the media and to some extent everyday conversations depending on who you ask. Recently people have declared the Arctic to be an island for the first time in recorded history. And they are making a fuss about it.

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There are many problems people may have these days - drinking, unemployment, addiction, etc. But this morning one of the things I found being talked about on various other blogs is that David Duchovny, better known as Agent Mulder from the X-Files, is getting treatment for sex addiction.

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