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Whoa — McCain Email Pushes Eco-Friendly Campaign Goods

Hmmm, somebody better check on Bush’s Environmental Protection Agency appointees: they must be frothing at the mouth — or unconscious from shock. Yes, an email just arrived from John McCain’s campaign touting the candidate’s enviro-friendly promo gear:

In our new store section, we’re proud to offer eco-friendly t-shirts and polo shirts made from biodegradable fabric, as well as organic cotton hats and shopping bags. You can also buy travel mugs and notebooks made from recycled materials.

Wonder what Rush will have to say about this one…Operation Chaos is over, Operation Cognitive Dissonance has begun. (Note: the online store address didn’t end up in the PDF, but here it is.) BTW, dig the shampoo-bottle logo:

John McCain, from Hanoi Hilton to New Age fashion mogul…$50 for a polo shirt? THAT’S change we can believe in.

– cpd

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Quick Hits — May 13, 2008

• Update: MoveOn Targets McCain Aides.
• Obama: Smear emails “not just a random sort of viral thing”.
• Racist Secret Service E-Mails. Oof. I mean really, oof. Stupid enough to think, even more stupider to email.
• How to spot Photoshop chicanery.
• Why is this site password protected? Burt Edwards wants to know.
• Can Bob Barr Tap Into Ron Paul’s Movement? C.f. Libertarian Bob Barr Hopes to Scoop Up Ron Paul’s Internet-Driven Support and Ron Paul Supporters, What Are Your Plans?
• MoveOn picks winner of Obama ad contest.
• Does his ad buy prove his critics wrong? Obama is online this week in WV, Florida, Michigan, Pennsylvania….
• On the Dangers of Hacked Computer Networks and Inadvertant Nuclear War.
• Unjustifiable Carnage, Uneasy Alliances, and Lots of Self-Doubt: What Grand Theft Auto IV gets right about gangland and illegal economies.
• Obama Looks Ahead to Oregon Primary in E-mail Push.
• How the Web Contest Predicted the Real Thing.
• Top Four Essentials of eCampaigning. C.f. The Essentials of Online Advocacy Begin With Email (e.politics sez, you better f*cking believe it).
• Why I like the Google Video Player.
• Quantcast Helps The Media Planner. Improve your advertising plans with free site demographics.
• Clinton Going Down, While the Web Dreams of an Obama Win.
• Another political PowerPoint, this time Clinton’s. See Politico and Wired.
• New Google Service Makes Web Pages Social.
• How Defense Research Is Making Troops More Effective in Wartime.
• Air Force Colonel Wants to Build a Military Botnet. Or not.
• The indie-rock fall and rise of R.E.M..
• OMG! WARNING: Over the top, offensive humor! Note comment: “Godwin’s Law: As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.”
• Obama’s online organization.
• Volunteers asked to help find dead spacecraft on Mars via online photos. Check out the size of those pictures!
• Republican Slogan Borrowed From Antidepressant. The jokes are too obvious to bother making.
• Concharto: Wikipedia for history/geography nerds. via GeoDog.
• The peak oil culture wars.
• Space porn! Virtual telescope brings the cosmos to your desktop.

– cpd

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