One of my favorite tech sites, Ars-Technica, has a very interesting article outlining all the security vulnerabilities in the new electronic voting systems used by my country. Essentially, whereas it used only to be easy to commit regional and local fraud, now it's entirely possible for a single person or small group of people to commit *undetectable*, *wholesale nation-wide election fraud*. And Ars shows how it could be done.

People, this is an emergency. Forward this article to all yo... read more

OK, so I just heard about and finally got around to downloading the various remixes of Scissor Sisters' cover of Pink Floyd's "Comfortably Numb".

Whew.

Lets go over that again. Scissor Sisters did a cover of "Comfortably Numb". There are multiple remixes of this cover floating around the Intarweb. And the best thing?

It's disco.

Yeah.

Hey, whaddaya know - I'm in Austin TX. PHotos upcoming.

I was just trying to play Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, and everything about it is just so lame and cheezy and bad. It's full of stuff like Zorf the Grund-beast is a bartender at the Zepular cantina and you have to win the game of Fozz against him to rescue the powerful Jedi Serphinita. Then I saw that the whole of Clone Wars was on cartoon network last night, and I really like Genndy Tartakovsky, but it still wasn't very good. It didn't have any of the pacing of Samuri Jack the ... read more

Also, I found a good post regarding what is, and isn't, reality. It's on slashdot. Yes, I read slashdot.

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