Archive for September, 2006

Dark Room

Friday, September 15th, 2006

One of the things that fascinates me about software is how many different text editors there are out there. Plain text editing is one of the oldest technologies in personal computing, and yet, there are those of us who are still not satisfied with all the choices available. Today, I happened upon Dark Room.

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On Voting Machines

Thursday, September 14th, 2006

Ars Technica discusses today the severe flaws found within Diebold voting machines. This seems to be an ongoing saga, and is related, in a way, to an even bigger problem with the way voting machines are made.
This video, apparently of a sworn testimony made by a programmer who had developed a prototype to rig […]

Is there Civil Discourse?

Monday, September 11th, 2006

One of the things that I’m proud of in regards to this site is that while the number of people who stop by here on a daily basis is abysmally low by most standards, they seem to be sticky people - meaning that I get a lot of repeat participants in the discussion here. Not […]

What We Don’t Hear

Saturday, September 9th, 2006

MarketWatch lists ten stories you won’t hear about in the US media. I guess that means we’ve heard about them now. Anyway, interesting read.

Soldiers of Fortune

Wednesday, September 6th, 2006

Those of us who are against our government’s actions in Iraq are frequently criticized for not supporting our troops (a feeble conclusion, at best). What is frequently glossed over in these discussions, however, is the number of opportunistic defense contractors involved in the mix and the crimes they commit. AlterNet’s got the details in “The […]