Interesting bit in Risks Digest about Air France Crash
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July 2009
Anti-paprazzi clutch bag gives pushy shutterbugs a taste of their own medicine
Not that I care about Paprazzi countermeasures, but this is just c-l-e-v-e-r! Check this post Anti-paprazzi clutch bag gives pushy shutterbugs a taste of their own medicine from [Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine](h...
Read more →Pandora is saved!
Pandora is one of my favorite music sites. It’s a quick way to get an infinite play list built around a song that you give it to start with. I’ve become a fan of several artists that I heard on Pandora for the first time. I hear that th...
Read more →iPhone 3GS – Questions
Ok so I’ve had the new iPhone for a little while now. This is my first ever iPhone and I have some questions. Maybe you can help me? - iPhone knows how to announce the album name and artist (using the voice recognition “what song is that” command.) Then why can’t I enable it to automatically announce each and every song? - Why is it so dang hard to convert a DVD I own to iPhone format? I tried a bunch of ‘solutions’ using software I already have, as well as 2 or 3 utilities I downloaded. None finished successfully. All took forever. Isn’t there an easy way? Any experts out there who want to comment? Technorati Tags: iphone
June 2009
Can ‘Electronic Voting Machines’ be ‘Trusted’?
Leaving aside what exactly an Electronic Voting Machine is, the New York Times weighed in with this editorial the other day: > “Electronic voting machines that do not produce a paper record of every vote cast cannot be trusted. In 2008, more than one-third of the states, including New Jersey and...
Read more →[Geeky] RMagick and memory leaks
A recent post talked about creating a “Domain Specific Language” for image processing of ballots. I’ve made a lot of progress on that project and wanted to give an update. One [commenter (my pal Aleks) said to ‘watch out for RMagick as it has major memo...
Read more →What is the ‘true’ result of an election?
With what’s going on in Iran right now, many commentators are wondering whether the elections were fair. That is to say, do the reported results correspond to reality, to how people actually voted? > “In Washington...
Read more →Check out TheRentables.com
I was shown a promising new site called TheRentables, for people (I know at least 3) who are looking to rent an apartment. They say: “The Rentables takes a fundamentally different approach to rental property listings to deliver the most relevant, accurate and...
Read more →Election day in Benton, New Hampshire
My post about Barack Obama’s election was getting a bit long, so I thought I’d break it up and get some more blog miles out of the story. 
First of all, check o...
Just when I was thinking about stopping my NetFlix subscription
TIVO keeps on getting cooler and cooler: > “Netflix said it will begin testing a service Thursday that lets users with TiVo’s latest DVR models access movies and television shows from an online library of 12,000 Netflix titles. ...
Read more →[GEEKY] Check out Ruby Best Practices book (not yet out ! :)
As you know from a previous post, I’ve been working on a “domain specific language” for election ballot processing. In my search for information I got a pointer to a book called: [Ruby Best Practices](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0596523009?ie=UTF8&tag=blogbridge-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creati...
Read more →Exploding head scene
An amusing article in Newsweek about Peter Arnell, self-styled renaissance man, inventor of the “Peapod“, a “a mix of Darth Vader, a bullet train, and a Citroën deux chevaux”: > “[snip…] With no air conditio...
Read more →Open Government: Remixing Government Data
I found this article to be a good primer on what’s going on with open government data. Remixing Government Data: Through mashups and Web apps, third parties are making innovative use of agencies’ information… This is part of the impetus and inspiration for two projects I am working on, “Decentralized Data Discovery” and “Government SDK“. 
[GEEKY] A DSL for Image Analysis
I have been working quite a lot on Election Reform over the last few weeks, at least from the technology side. To be honest there is just so much I could be blogging about in this narrow specialized space that my cup overfloweth, but also it ...
Read more →Wandering through Asia
My friend Amy just recently arrived from an incredible trip through Asia. If you are curious, check out Amy’s blog: > “My travels in Southern Laos were indeed more successful in terms of being able to get out and see things than my time in the ...
Read more →May 2009
Maldives looking for new land
A while back I wrote a post saying that it was “Official: The Maldives is the most beautiful place on earth.” So you know I have a warm spot for it (or is it them?). [An article ran in the New York Times Magazine re...
Read more →Comedian in chief
You’ve heard about (or maybe you haven’t) President Obama’s turn as a comedian at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner. I was looking for, and I found the full video of his remarks. In fact, pretty funny. (Who writes for him?)
Government Efficiency
Check this post Government Efficiency from Dilbert.com Blog: > A confusopoly is a situation in which companies pretend to compete on price, service, and features but in fact they are just trying to confuse customers so no one can do comparison shopping. (from: Government Efficiency) Nice new term: Confusopoly
Manny being Manny
Check this post Thank you Jason Bay from 38 Pitches: > “… Yet somehow we’re hearing these same people talk about being struck momentarily stupid when West African bullfrog se...
Read more →Help your favorite Massachusetts historic site win a grant
The National Trust of Historic Preservation and American Express are giving away $100,000.00 to a Massachusetts historic site. All you have to do is to exercise your left mouse finger to increase the chances of your site. [Click here to register and cast your vote. It’s all free and takes (by my wat...
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