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Slate has a great slideshow of Obama’s Secret Service protection, including this shot of their new department-issue footwear:

Could cigarettes be responsible for Barack Obama’s trademark poise?

A few Blackwater guards are finally charged with some sort of crime.

As a dork, it’s heartening to see our new administration embracing openness with Creative Commons’ Attribution 3.0 license. More repudiation of Bush43’s tactics and beliefs, and the start of something good.
Lessig exults: “This is something that any administration would have to think through.
I’m glad the thought in this administration led to the right conclusion, so [...]