One thing I love about the Internet is that it encourages and facilitates creativity because of the quick and easy way to create, publish and assimilate ideas. In the last weeks, there was one source of inspiration like few others: the presidential election in the United States. Especially the almost perfect campaign of Barack Obama, who convinced more than 60 million people to vote for him and therefore made history.

Many designers and artists helped him to achieve his goal by creating tons of images, wallpapers and posters, which spread like wildfire on the Web. And even though the whole hoopla verges on a personality cult, its richness and diversity is really impressive.

Here are just a few examples:

via c3o’s soup

via fubiz.net

via notcot.com

via robotwalrus.com

by tsevis via flickr

Ziemlich genau ein Jahr nach 1.5 ist nun Helma in Version 1.6 verfügbar. Und obwohl es nur nach einem Minor-Update klingt, stecken in Helma 1.6 viele neue Features, die eigentlich erst für Version 2.0 geplant waren. Hut ab!

Für die, die Helma nicht kennen, hier die Kurzfassung: Helma ist ein Open Source Web Application Framework, das die Einfachheit von Javascript mit der Power von Java vereint. Neugierig? Mehr Informationen findet Ihr unter helma.org oder beim Wikipedia Artikel.