Last night’s historic spectacle in Grant Park, in which Barack Obama claimed victory as the next President of the United States, featured a simple design by Bruce Rodgers, the same man who designed the Democratic National Convention. The monochromatic stage–a muted blue, no doubt symbolizing the blue states, was punctuated by a veritable sea of American flags, which were not only lined up more

Here’s a post from Gizmodo on that slightly cool, slightly creepy hologram toy that the CNN talking heads were playing with last night:

“CNN’s holographic election coverage is fancy pantsy, but how did they manage to send 3D 360 degree footage of virtual correspondent Jessica Yellin from Chicago all the way to the station’s election center in NY? As Arthur C. Clarke says, Magic. A magic made possible from technology by more