Farhad Manjoo has written an excellent article about touch-screen voting and a woman who has researched the system that will be widely used in upcoming elections: An open invitation to election fraud. It’s at Salon.com, so you’ll probably have to click through an ad to view the whole article.
Archives for September 2003
Compare and contrast:
Annan speech to the UN and Bush speech to the UN. Bush persists in citing falsehoods; Annan cites plain realities. Bush looks back, to justify; Annan looks forward. I have always thought of Kofi Annan as a weak and ineffective UN Secretary General. But given the alternatives, he seems to have a real vision in the context of the very realpolitik UN.
New social software to try:
YULBlog Tribe at Tribe.net. Give it a try.
Car Free Day in Montreal
from the WebCam on Ste-Catherine Street downtown.
Today
is Car Free Day in Canada. It’s being celebrated in Montreal by the closure of a chunk of the downtown core between 10am and 3:30pm, compared to Paris where four full arrondissements have been shut to traffic. But compare also with other Canadian cities, where (for the most part) they held street parties on Sunday – a far cry from shutting things down on a work day.
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