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As an Oslo-inhabitant I decided to head on down to the Nobel Peace Center today and check out this exhibit they're running, "From King to Obama" (put up in September... My first thought was that in hindsight that was a bit of a hint, but once there I learned the exhibit had been planned all year, from long before the winner was decided.)

While I was there I happened to catch the unveiling of the Nobel Diploma (or... whatever it was called) by the Nobel Committee Chairman (and former PM of Norway) Torbjørn Jagland, and listened to him hold a little lecture about why they picked Obama, in particular challenging the notion that he hasn't "done anything yet". He listed such things as Obama's speech in Cairo earlier this year as entering a dialogue with the Muslim world that was urgently needed; his leading a meeting in the UN Security Council (the first time a US President has ever done so) that unanimously passed a resolution for nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament; his making diplomatic contact with Iran for the first time since the Islamic Revolution; his active participation in the Israel-Arab conflict from the very beginning of his term (he said other Presidents tend to leave that to the end of their terms, I don't know how true that is); his scrapping plans for expansion of the European missile defense shield and thus significantly improving US-Russian relations, and probably some other stuff I don't remember. "Obama has lowered the global temperature," he said, quoting Desmond Tutu.

All these things, of course, happened long after the nomination.

Sadly I only have the one statue of Giordano Bruno, so I have to retrieve it every time once the event has passed.

Congratulations :)

Holy crap :O best wishes and everything they said.

Oooh... another game by the guy that made Passage (http://hcsoftware.sourceforge.net/passage/), which caused me to burst into uncontrollable sobbing and lie down in bed hugging my giant teddybear for fifteen minutes. In a good way.

"We will will have dinosaurs: perhaps even shiny dinosaurs."

But will there be sodomy?

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