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Interesting (and random?) list of MacArthur 'Genius' Award recipients announced today.
Plans for a draft-dodger monument in Canada.
It's Banned Books Week.
notice the back spin
tom ran into this once posting about the young turds on the fmu message board. the censorship script changes bad words (even if the are contained within other not bad words like shelly) to what ever they want. for instance hell = flint michigan and fuck = nina totenberg. here are some retards having fun with it.
This town, is coming like a ghost town
All the clubs have been closed down
This place, is coming like a ghost town
Bands won't play no more
too much fighting on the dance floor
Do you remember the good old days before the ghost town?
We danced and sang, and the music played in a de boomtown
This town, is coming like a ghost town
Why must the youth fight against themselves?
Government leaving the youth on the shelf
This place, is coming like a ghost town
No job to be found in this country
Can't go on no more
The people getting angry
This town, is coming like a ghost town
This town, is coming like a ghost town
This town, is coming like a ghost town
This town, is coming like a ghost town
portrait of a schlub
the salon article
soccer moms out security moms in
"Women of the world, take over/and if you don't the world will come to an end/and it won't take long."
- jim o'rourke
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cant find the most recent ramones thread but i did find a baseball connection.
The location of this interactive dance floor looks like Rivington. Is it?
it cant happen here
long board critical mass photos [via EPofE]
where was that brian wilson smile thread ?
is 9/11 a national holiday yet? too close to labor day? can they be combined? national work yourself to death day? or maybe, national al qaida determined to attack usa but we'd rather wait out the attack outside of washington stage a photo-op on our fake ranch for a complicit and docile press corp during our monthlong vacation after only 7 months in office..*pant*...day. i cant wait for the parade.
organ donor
Sack of Iraq
Coalition forces are doing little to prevent the widespread looting and destruction of Iraq's world-famous historical sites
a day ill always remember
zig-zag-zell
philly considers free city-wide wireless access.
i went to connecticut this weekend with skinny and the boy, and while we were out on the lake sunday we saw a pair of bald eagles. first time i've ever seen one - really amazing. one was so close, about 50 feet up in a tree eating a fish. beatiful birds. sorry alex, no photos.
hours of fun for tom and bill.
fmu audio link to F911 - right now
I know I'm a broken record, but I can't help it. We're screwed. Check out this new BlackBoxVoting.org report on the massive security hole in Diebold's GEMS central tabulator system. This isn't the touch screen voting machines - which have their own problems - these are the machines that total the statewide votes collected from each precinct. The Diebold GEMS central tabulator is responsible for tabulating 50% of the votes in this country.
Issue: Manipulation technique found in the Diebold central tabulator -- 1,000 of these systems are in place, and they count up to two million votes at a time.
By entering a 2-digit code in a hidden location, a second set of votes is created. This set of votes can be changed, so that it no longer matches the correct votes. The voting system will then read the totals from the bogus vote set. It takes only seconds to change the votes, and to date not a single location in the U.S. has implemented security measures to fully mitigate the risks.
This program is not "stupidity" or sloppiness. It was designed and tested over a series of a dozen version adjustments.
But this couldn't be the case, right? I mean, the guys at Diebold couldn't be outright criminals, right?
Black Box Voting has traced the implementation of the double set of books to Oct. 13, 2000, shortly after embezzler Jeffrey Dean became the senior programmer.....
Black Box Voting Associate Director Andy Stephenson has obtained the court and police records of Jeffrey Dean. It is clear that he was under severe financial stress, because the King County prosecutor was chasing him for over $500,000 in restitution.
During this time, while Jeffrey Dean was telling the prosecutor (who operated from the ninth floor of the King County Courthouse) that he was unemployed, he was in fact employed, with 24-hour access to the King County GEMS central tabulator -- and he was working on GEMS on the fifth floor of the King County Courthouse....
Jeffrey Dean, according to his own admissions, is subject to blackmail as well as financial pressure over his restitution obligation. Police records from his embezzlement arrest, which involved "sophisticated" manipulation of computer accounting records, report that Dean claimed he was embezzling in order to pay blackmail over a fight he was involved in, in which a person died.
So now we have someone who's admitted that he's been blackmailed over killing someone, who pleaded guilty to 23 counts of embezzlement, who is given the position of senior programmer over the GEMS central tabulator system that counts approximately 50 percent of the votes in the election, in 30 states, both paper ballot and touch screen.
I'm not even going to get into the fact that the whole thing runs on a Microsoft Access database. (Hello?)
But okay, maybe this is wrong. Maybe Jeffrey Dean is a swell guy whose main desire in life is for a fair election. The problem is that whether or not fraud actually takes place, there is clearly going to be enough suspicion of fraud that the results of the election will not be trusted. But there won't be a paper trail (at least from all the touch screen machines,) so a full recount will not be possible, and we'll have to let the courts decide. Again.