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What a great smile – and what a great day for the world. I’m proud to have been a witness and a very modest and distant yet participant in this momentous moment of change in our history. Because what has been changed is the order of one-way politics, the order of read-only culture, of one-way, top down communications. What’s in is read-write culture, two-ways politics and bottom-up, peer-produced communications. I’m excited to be living in these times, and I share Obama’s vision and desire to leave our children with a mark on our times and world, of which we can be proud.

Saw President Obama’s speech from Chicago earlier this morning. If one is only going to listen to one speech in one’s life, it’s a pretty good candidate. If you haven’t already seen or heard it, I post the video here for your convenience.

Here’s the full text of Obama’s speech. The brilliant photo at the top is used courtesy of Bella Rua Photography from Flickr, taken at the Rollins Park rally in Concord, NH, September 29th, 2007. The photo is shared under a Creative Commons license.

EDIT: Took me a while to actually find an embeddable video of the full speech and of better quality than the one posted to YouTube. It’s worth listening to the complete speech – not just get the soundbites. I finally found the above courtesy of Yahoo Video.

Btw, the numbers are here.

When Steve Spalding wrote about Kaplak on How To Split An Atom, he chose a small picture of some pictoresque 19th century houses to accompany the article. The picture bears the title “Denmark”, which is shown when hovering over the image with the mouse cursor. While nice, the image is a bit on the tiny side, and doesn’t quite justify what it looks like living here. I’ve thought about for a while that I would like to put in a little work to expand the online imagery of Odense, so that the next person to write something about us (or about Odense or Denmark in general), will have a greater variety of images to pick from. What better day to do this, than on a sunny saturday, which is also a market’s day in Odense?

While the pictoresque quality of Odense is not completely true – and not completely untrue either, these are the places which do attract the camera the most. I had my daughter and my dog with me, and we were even lucky enough to see a whole swan family as they were feeding.