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    Watch the World Lit Up By Millions of Voices During Obama's Inauguration

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    05/26/09

    In reply to Watch the World Lit Up By Millions of Voices During Obama's Inauguration
    Where'd Alaska go?
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    Image of badhatharry badhatharry
    05/26/09

    @switchblade saints: They were busy keeping an eye on Russia.
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    05/26/09

    In reply to Watch the World Lit Up By Millions of Voices During Obama's Inauguration
    Can Puerto Rico technically be considered international? They're a part of the U.S. I know, they can't vote, but that's kind of like calling Hawaii international.
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    Image of soulofall soulofall
    05/26/09

    In reply to Watch the World Lit Up By Millions of Voices During Obama's Inauguration
    And the World SCREAM, ARE YOU F*()ING KIDDING ME.. THEY ELECTED THAT SOCIALIST VERMIN.
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    Image of badhatharry badhatharry
    05/26/09

    @soulofall: No, I think they were saying, "Thank God they didn't elect that Republican Party sell-out and his functionally retarded running mate."
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    Image of TrollSlayer TrollSlayer
    05/26/09

    @badhatharry: The lesser of two evils, is still evil.
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    Image of BigCanada BigCanada
    05/26/09

    @badhatharry: +2 (one for each)
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    05/26/09

    @TrollSlayer: Yeah, no. Don't think one of them's evil.
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    05/26/09

    @BigCanada: Thanks, Canada. Or, as your people say, Thanks/Merci.
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    Image of TheSonOfKrypton TheSonOfKrypton
    05/26/09

    In reply to Watch the World Lit Up By Millions of Voices During Obama's Inauguration
    Can't wait to hear the anti-Obama flamers spit their rhetoric.
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    Image of badhatharry badhatharry
    05/26/09

    @TheSonOfKrypton: Look directly above you.
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    Image of Nick Nick
    05/26/09

    In reply to Watch the World Lit Up By Millions of Voices During Obama's Inauguration
    they got ya Giz. this isn't from the Obama inauguration. it's from the American Idol finale.
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    Image of shenanigans shenanigans
    05/26/09

    In reply to Watch the World Lit Up By Millions of Voices During Obama's Inauguration
    you have the title wrong. "..Obama's Inauguration" should be "..the Messiah's Inauguration", or "..the Chosen One's Inauguration". ;)
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    05/26/09

    @shenanigans: LeBron is the Chose One. Not Obama.
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    05/26/09

    @big_neon_crossing: Not Keanu Reeves?
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    01/24/09

    In reply to NASA Electric Lunar Rover Looks Silly In Obama's Inaugural Parade
    That backpack must weight a ton. I can only imagine the guy getting to the end going "Get me out of this damn suit!"


    The whole walking away on a suit was a tad weird though. I was expecting him to jump really high or something.


    Cool rover though. Looks like fun to drive!

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    01/24/09

    @Iggy: Yes, if NASA could somehow have used their wizardry to create a zero gravity bubble around the rover, and the astronaut could have done some slow motion back flips in the air, and that thing they do with catching airborne bubbles of tang in their mouths, it would have been most impressive!
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    Image of Tom Zhang Tom Zhang
    01/23/09

    In reply to NASA Electric Lunar Rover Looks Silly In Obama's Inaugural Parade
    Dudes, this is epic!!! Personally I think that this was the best part of the parade. It's basically demonstrating that we are ready go go back to the moon again.


    Why did I say again? We only went there once...

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    01/24/09

    @Tom Zhang: Yes, because the technical challenges of driving down Pennsylvania Avenue during rush hour replicate the difficulty of landing on the moon. :)
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    Image of LastVigilante LastVigilante
    01/23/09

    In reply to NASA Electric Lunar Rover Looks Silly In Obama's Inaugural Parade
    I didn't watch the parades (were they even televised?), but it [the parade] looks pretty lame. Whats with all the empty seats around the Obamas? And how come it doesn't look like there is anything else marching in-front-of or behind the NASA group? And what time is it when this happened? Its dark out... was this in the early morning before the inauguration?
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    01/24/09

    @LastVigilante: Security was very tight and access very limited to the area where Obama sat in his viewing booth. There were millions of people who would have wanted to be on that block, but were kept away by security.


    As far as it being dark, you also have to figure in that the parade started late due to Senator Kennedy having a seizure during the pre-parade lunch.

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    01/23/09

    In reply to NASA Electric Lunar Rover Looks Silly In Obama's Inaugural Parade
    Dudes wearing spacesuits on earth... the only dudes completely ready for a chemical attack.
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    01/23/09

    @Skeetz: reminds me of ET
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    01/24/09

    @Henry Timm: The one you know as Milhouse is gone
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    01/23/09

    In reply to Itzhak and Yo-Yo Go Milli Vanilli With John Williams's Inaugural Soundtrack
    It bugs me that John Williams is taking credit for "composing" the piece when it's little more than an variation of Aaron Copeland's Appalachian Spring. It's the classical equivalent of Vanilla Ice taking the opening from "Under Pressure", adding a single note to make it slightly different, then insisting that it was his creation.
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    01/23/09

    @Jen: I agree. I was stuck watching the C-span feed at work. When I heard Appalachian Spring, I wondered how could Williams take credit?


    I chuckled to myself when "upper management" thought it was an original piece of work, and how well it was played. What a bunch of frauds (I'm referring to my co-workers, you can draw your own conclusions about the Yo-Yo and the others).

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    01/23/09

    @taylors_dad: @Jen: Actually, you're both making the same mistake! Aaron Copeland did not write the melody you're referring to in Appalachian Spring. It is a traditional Shaker melody that Copeland incorporated into Appalachian Spring, just as Williams incorporated it into his inaugural piece. Because the melody is so famously linked to Appalachian Spring, it's understandable that you might assume Williams was borrowing from Copeland, or that Copeland actually wrote it.


    There's also nothing wrong with what either Copeland or Williams did. Neither composer is pretending to compose something they didn't. Incorporating folk songs into new pieces and making variations on them is a standard compositional technique. Besides, Williams' piece was intentionally called an arrangement not a composition. And that the name of Williams' piece "Air and Simple Gifts" includes the name of the Shaker song on which it's based, "Simple Gifts," also lets you know he's not trying to pull a fast one.

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    01/23/09

    In reply to Itzhak and Yo-Yo Go Milli Vanilli With John Williams's Inaugural Soundtrack
    Am I the only person who kept expecting them to launch into Last of the Mohicans?
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    01/23/09

    In reply to Itzhak and Yo-Yo Go Milli Vanilli With John Williams's Inaugural Soundtrack
    Anyone know where can I download an mp3 of Air and Simple Gifts?
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    01/23/09

    @John Roy: Have you tried Googling it? I'd start with that.
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    Image of frigg frigg
    01/23/09

    In reply to Itzhak and Yo-Yo Go Milli Vanilli With John Williams's Inaugural Soundtrack
    I don't have any problem with recording the safety a day before and playing to that, given the temperatures that might make it impossible to play at that temperature without heat lamps, which they didn't put above them.


    My issue is with the John Williams arrangement which I thought was kind of lame. When the string instruments were playing fast scales up and down and the clarinet was playing the famous melody, that sounded pretty cool, but there was too much time at the beginning and the end where the music kind of meandered around like a less important scene in a movie.


    The arrangement should have had less of that mercurial introduction, more of the famous "tis a gift to be simple" melody, and driven to a more uplifting, conclusive, virtuosic ending on par with Aretha Franklin's hat instead of somewhat meekly petering out.

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    01/23/09

    In reply to Itzhak and Yo-Yo Go Milli Vanilli With John Williams's Inaugural Soundtrack
    Not quite Milli Vanlli, since they were "instrument synching" their own recording. More like Ashley Simpson...
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    Image of kthxbai kthxbai
    01/23/09

    @EBone: their still bitches... im not re explaining it....
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    Image of robot-shmobot robot-shmobot
    01/23/09

    @kthxbai: I refrained from correcting you once already above. However, since you continue to rain failure upon everything here, I will point out yours.


    They're not their.

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    01/23/09

    @robot-shmobot: Sorry that im bad with grammar?
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    Image of EBone EBone
    01/23/09

    @robot-shmobot: Thank you. My head was starting to hurt.
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    01/23/09

    @EBone: well sorry mr star commenter guy.... jesus christ... i never learned that gizmodo was the new location of the grammar police
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    Image of Rabid Penguin Rabid Penguin
    01/23/09

    @kthxbai: That's fine that you dislike phonies, but how can you call someone a phony that you'll never be half as good as? So they decided to do a prerecording. Who the hell cares. It's a prerecording of them anyway. It's not like you dropped a 100 bucks for a live concert and got a prerecording.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    01/23/09

    @kthxbai: Don't worry about them. Their not very understanding.
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    Image of kthxbai kthxbai
    01/23/09

    @Rabid Penguin: Hey man, Im good at what i do.... im not going to let your assumtions about my suckage bother me... But if i were a world renowned musician, i wouldnt fucking bitch about the fucking cold and i would play at the ceremony becuase or a million different reasons.
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    Image of Rabid Penguin Rabid Penguin
    01/23/09

    @kthxbai: I never said you weren't good, but the fact is you're not a world renowned musician. These guys are. And although you may be "good" I highly doubt you'll ever be as good as them. So to call them phonies is ridiculous. And it sounds to me like you've just bitched more on this blog than they probably did about the cold.
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    Image of EBone EBone
    01/23/09

    @kthxbai: Actually, my 'Thank You' was for this portion of robot's comment:


    "since you continue to rain failure upon everything here..."

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