{"id":15602,"date":"2008-11-05T23:01:37","date_gmt":"2008-11-05T23:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2008\/11\/post-election-bits.html"},"modified":"2008-11-05T23:01:37","modified_gmt":"2008-11-05T23:01:37","slug":"post_election_bits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/05\/post_election_bits\/","title":{"rendered":"Post-election bits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">I&#8217;m finding it hard to get back into the blogging game after such a* historic election.&#160; Doesn&#8217;t blogging about megapixels and keyboard shortcuts just seem kind of&#8230; trite?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&#160;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">In an effort to spool back up, here are some interesting visual bits I&#8217;ve encountered: <\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&#160;<\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<li>Oh yeah!: &quot;<b>The Final Endgame Go Time Alpha Action Lift-off Decide-icidal Hungry Man&#8217;s Extreme Raw Power Ultimate Voteslam Smackdown &#8217;08 No Mercy: Judgement Day &#8217;08.<\/b>&quot;&#160; <em>That&#8217;s<\/em> what I&#8217;m talkin&#8217; about.&#160; Peep The Daily Show&#8217;s ode to\/mockery of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailyshow.com\/video\/index.jhtml?videoId=209508&amp;title=indecision-2008-americas-choice\">over-the-top motion graphics<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>Jason Kottke has aggregated a huge list of <a href=\"http:\/\/kottke.org\/plus\/2008-election-maps\/\">election maps from around the world<\/a>, from whiteboards to the Onion.&#160; I love the way various maps, including <a href=\"http:\/\/elections.nytimes.com\/2008\/results\/president\/map.html\">the one on the NY Times site<\/a>, let you zoom into states to see a county-by-county patchwork of voting.&#160; Also check out the way the NYT map features &quot;county bubbles&quot; and a voting trend comparison slider. <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www-personal.umich.edu\/~mejn\/election\/2008\/\">Mark Newman&#8217;s maps<\/a> offer insight into voting patterns by geography and population. [<a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2008\/11\/06\/newman-maps\">Via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>The Guardian features a gallery of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/media\/gallery\/2008\/nov\/05\/pressandpublishing?picture=339365861\">newspaper front pages from around the world<\/a>.  [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.daringfireball.net\">Via<\/a>] <\/li>\n<li>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livingroomcandidate.org\/\">The Living Room Candidate<\/a>, the Museum of the Moving Image features TV ads from US presidential races, 1952-2008. <\/li>\n<li>Typography:\n<ul>\n<li>Channeling campaign fatigue into type, <a href=\"http:\/\/thisfuckingelection.com\/\">This [Farging] Election<\/a> aggregates many of the year&#8217;s memorable phrases into a single column. <\/li>\n<li>Obama + dingbats = <a href=\"http:\/\/jeffdomke.com\/?p=374\">ObamaBats<\/a>, courtesy of Jeff Domke. [<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/CoudalFreshSignals\/~3\/444340391\/obamabats.php\">Via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&#160;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">* <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsu.edu:8080\/~brians\/errors\/anhistoric.html\">Not &quot;<em>an<\/em>&quot;<\/a>.&#160; Hah; I knew it.&#160; We&#8217;re not Cockney, for crying out loud. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m finding it hard to get back into the blogging game after such a* historic election.&#160; Doesn&#8217;t blogging about megapixels and keyboard shortcuts just seem kind of&#8230; trite? &#160; In an effort to spool back up, here are some interesting visual bits I&#8217;ve encountered: &#160; Oh yeah!: &quot;The Final Endgame Go Time Alpha Action Lift-off [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15602"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}