red | blu: Know which way the political wind blows
posted October 5th 2004 9:54AM
Ever wonder if you're in red or blue
territory? Wanna know who around you has been dumping money on the presidential candidates? Now you can find out,
and in real-time as you move around, too. A new Java app from Gravity Monkey called red | blue ("Red or Blue") for
cellphones and other Java wireless devices plots out the political landscape based on your location. The
application gets your current location and maps it against the nearest individual campaign donor data taken from the
Federal Elections Commission. If you are using a GPS-enabled device, it will even track your movement through the
political waters, allowing you to avoid those boring stiffs or crazy pinko liberals like so many icebergs. Available
for free from Handango. Bon voyage!
That's one way to do it, alternatively you could just look for bumper stickers and signs in people's yards :)
So, handango.com wants to charge me $5.37 to get this file. No thanks!
MJar81 -- just use the Free Trial Version from Handango. It's free (obviously), has all the features -- there's no need to upgrade or anything.
Or, go to gravitymonkey.com to download it directly.
The charge on Handango is a requirement for developers -- but we chose to make the Free Trial Version fully functional so that wouldn't be needed by users. Also...537 was the count difference in Florida in 2000.
you chose my hometown for a screenshot. heh..
Why not extend this functionality to provide a heads up on the local
average IQ? Or does this program essentially already do that?