It’s usually not my style to go around and gloat, but this is my blog, dammit! Yesterday I finished NaNoWriMo 2004 as a Winner, which pretty much means I can call myself now a novelist. Yes, Ladies and Gentlemen, I’ve written a book! Just in case you haven’t heard about the insanity that is NaNoWriMo, [...]
So how easy is it to hack the Diebold machines that have been used in many states here in the US during the last elections? How about 5 minutes start to finish with no audit trail and no possible way to recount or restore the original results. Here’s how.
This is quite possible the most amazing – and horrifying – example of circular logic I have ever seen. This is the exact quote from this New York Times article, but I’ve added the bold tags: Military commanders point to several accomplishments in Falluja. A bastion of resistance has been eliminated, with lower than expected [...]
So the US military spent the last week celebrating Bush’s re-election by flattening a city and by all accounts, killing indiscriminately. Here for instance a little news item from Fallujah: ABC pool video footage showed Marines continuing to search door-to-door, blowing the gates off houses with explosives. A bit of bright colour stood out on [...]
Tom Engelhardt over at TomDispatch has a great feature by Mike Davis, called The White House Rodeo – imagine the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are grazing their horses on the White House Lawn, and nobody acknowledges them. Here’s the interview.