wow. from derek.

Quoted: Officials closed the entrances to KeyArena at about 11 this morning, turning away thousands who had gathered to hear presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama speak at noon.

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Yes we can!

Quoted: Black Eyed Peas' will.i.am's music video inspired by Barack Obama's message of hope.Yes We Can!¡Sí, Se Puede!If you live in a February 5th voting state, go h...

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I'm so disappointed in Bill.

Quoted: Bill Clinton on Barack Obama

Caroline Kennedy's Op-Ed from two days ago:

Quoted: OVER the years, I’ve been deeply moved by the people who’ve told me they wished they could feel inspired and hopeful about America the way ...

Doin' a little dance....

Quoted: Something fundamental has shifted in the Democratic Party. Last week there was the widespread revulsion at the Clintons’ toxic attempts to ghettoize Barack Obama.....The respect for institutions that was prevalent during the early ’60s is prevalent with the young again today. The earnest industriousness that was common then is back today. The awareness that we are not self-made individualists, free to be you and me, but emerge as parts of networks, webs and communities; that awareness is back again today.

My friend (and former lab mate) Susan has co-founded the Washington Coalition for School Libraries and Information Technology (WCSLit). Their goal is to ensure that public school kids have access to a school library and a teacher-certified librarian. They're sponsoring Senate Bill 6380. Check it out!

Quoted: State of Washington citizens calling on state leaders to ensure that all Washington elementary and secondary students have full-time access to school libraries and a certified teacher librarian.

Quoted: Roger Pielke Jr., The Honest Broker: Making Sense of Science in Policy and Politics (Cambridge, 2007). There is plenty of excellent scholarship on science, technology, and society, but this is hands down the best treatment of the topic I've seen.

saw this last night. it was really touching and beautiful.

Quoted: Hailed by indieWIRE as one of the ten best films of 2005 without U.S. distribution, Mark Becker's acclaimed documentary "Romantico" is hitting theaters nearly two years after the filmmaker first got the call that his movie would debut at the '05 Sundance Film Festival.

very cool. :)

Quoted: For Sutapa Basu, fighting for social justice has been a constant refrain ever since her childhood in India, where she saw much discrimination. It’s fitting, then, that she would become the director of the UW Women’s Center, the largest of its kind in the country.