Gizmodo: dick cheney

Cheney Leaves VP Residence, Takes Pixelated Google Map with Him

Mark Wilson — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 12:10:00 EST

Google Maps' satellite imagery has shown us clear shots of the White House, the Capitol and even the Pentagon. But one thing it never displayed properly was Dick Cheney's house. Until now.

The Vice President's quarters, located at the Naval Observatory since 1974, have been pixelated ever since Google has given the public an easy way to check them out—coincidentally ever since Dick Cheney has lived there. This censorship wasn't by Google but those supplying Google the source images, the U.S. Geological Survey.

Now on the same week of Biden's arrival, we're suddenly allowed to see the VP's house as clearly as the President's. Who knows the exact reason for Cheney's extra security...maybe he'd been nervous about the public catching wind of his Mini Cheney clone farm, or maybe he's just prone to gardening in his shorts despite being self-conscious about his varicose veins. [Valleywag]

Zune Guy Makes Yet Another Fantastic Life Decision

John Herrman — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 05:32:34 EDT

Zune Guy — arguably the greatest fanboy of our time — has decided to finally commit his acrimonious separation from his namesake to ink. So what does he do? He integrates the Zune logo into a tattoo of Dick Cheney as the Devil, where it serves as a makeshift inverted pentagram on the veep's forehead. As far as tattoos go, this not-quite-complete piece of agitprop is a minor improvement and much easier to explain — after all, Cheney isn't the most popular guy in the world, and people have at least heard of him.

Harder to explain will be Mr. Guy's crucial misunderstanding of what a pentagram looks like, and his apparent need to get tattoos that will by their very nature be completely irrelevant in a few years. In any case, Zune Guy clearly wants to engage with something bigger than consumer electronics, so I'm a little bit disappointed that he hasn't decided to throw his considerable weight behind one of the current presidential candidates. Forget Colin Powell — that would be a game-changer. [iPhone Savior - Thanks, Ry!]

Cheney Gets Power Outlet Dibs for the iPod

gizmodo.com — Fri, 23 Dec 2005 18:03:32 EST

With everyone in the White House loving their iPods, you'd expect them (the iPods) to run out of battery life sooner or later, right? That's just the case with our man Dick on a flight he took the other day on Air Force Two. There are normally plenty of outlets to plug electronics into, but they started going on the fritz. Some reporters were busy working on their laptops when Cheney's iPod died. Everything immediately grinded to a halt and the one good outlet was then occupied by his iPod so it could charge. Get this:

"The vice president's press staff intervened so a reporter could use the outlet for 15 minutes to charge a dead laptop, but then the digital music device was plugged back in. That way, Cheney got his press coverage and his music, too."

They had to intervene. Damn, Dick—we knew you White House boys dug the iPod, but that much? That's dedication.

Cheney's iPod: first in line of succession for power outlets. [Boing Boing]