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More Fun With the Electoral College! What's most disturbing isn't that it may be weeks or months before we actually know who won the election. I mean who cares? Neither of these guys represent you. They both suck. The disturbing part is that it is actually possible the voices of hundreds of thousands of Florida voters might not be heard at all!
posted by ZachsMind at 10:38 PM PST - 14 comments

from the front page of CNN: "....Circuit Judge...has scheduled a....hearing to issue a ruling on whether Florida Secretary of State....used her best discretion in deciding...." And my question for the legal experts here: how can a judge rule on matters of discretion? I thought Marbury vs. Madison dealt with a similar situation and that courts didn't decide political matters.
posted by greyscale at 9:39 PM PST - 9 comments

Blogger is the answer. Portals suck. "Community sites" suck. The always-excellent NUblog crew think Pyra has the answer -- communities of Bloggers focused on specific subject areas.
posted by lbergstr at 8:59 PM PST - 7 comments

More nonsense from everyone's favorite biased website.

They screw up their own point of course:

"The surge of presidential candidates in the wake of Revision 11 had little impact on counties that use more sophisticated voting procedures and don't have to worry about crowded ballot space."

The problem is with the outdated voting procedures, not with third parties.
posted by Mr. skullhead at 8:17 PM PST - 5 comments

Smellovision ("Digiscents") demoed at Comdex. Scan down to the fourth paragraph for an informal review.
posted by Steven Den Beste at 6:02 PM PST - 15 comments

ICANN announces new international TLDs
Apparently they resolved the problem of businesses buying up their domain names in the new namespaces by choosing TLDs that no one would want. Visit me at www.rattanchairs.info! My personal web site is www.ryan.name...
posted by rschram at 5:10 PM PST - 12 comments

$14,999? It's a steal! And come on, there's only 2 left... (Yes, it's more election-era humor.)
posted by teradome at 4:45 PM PST - 5 comments

Eat french fries at the subway station, go to jail. Martial Law will creep up on us like humid underwear, not like the sudden wedgie-style *BOOMPF* as previously believed.
posted by ethmar at 2:50 PM PST - 23 comments

Coca Cola:Enjoy!
posted by tiaka at 2:03 PM PST - 0 comments - Post a Comment

union.amazon.com ? Customer service reps at Amazon.com are trying to form a union. Amazon says "We don't have unions at Amazon and don't really need them".
posted by owillis at 2:01 PM PST - 8 comments

New dinosaur named for Michael Crichton Chinese researcher Dong Zhiming named a newly-identified Jurassic herbivore "Crichton's Ankylosaur". Jurassic Park is responsible for a great deal of the current interest in palaeontology, so this seems appropriate.
posted by Mars Saxman at 1:56 PM PST - 5 comments

Maybe the candidates will care to make a small wager? Harvard and Yale prepare to duke it out in the next Ivy League heavyweight rumble.
posted by CRS at 12:55 PM PST - 5 comments

Can a mobile phone help get you laid? Then it makes sense that they should be for adults only, but 1 in 5 US teenagers own one and it's not just the radiation that is dangerous.
posted by john at 11:41 AM PST - 20 comments

Rajkumar is finally home. Veerappan is still at large. To catch up try looking here
posted by john at 10:38 AM PST - 1 comments

Neo Nazis holding pro-Bush rally I think even Shrub would find this distasteful...
posted by owillis at 9:54 AM PST - 11 comments

eToys sucks, Blogger sucks, everywhere a suck suck? Maybe register.com should add a "sucks" suffix as one of its automated "additional available names" options.
posted by highindustrial at 9:35 AM PST - 18 comments

Mir to be dropped into the Pacific Ocean next February. Is it wise to bring a vessel with a toxic fungus back into our atmosphere and let it swim in the Pacific?
posted by Brilliantcrank at 9:34 AM PST - 9 comments

I know it is cheap and easy to link to Salon, but I imagine this might make interesting conversation.
We can thank Nader and his supporters for the election mess -- and they're not even sorry.
Don't you idiots know the Democratic party owns your votes? Quit being so selfish.
posted by thirteen at 8:57 AM PST - 46 comments

Bill's going to the 'Nam. At least he's not planning on apologizing for the war. I wonder how many vets are having apoplectic fits right now.
posted by CRS at 7:33 AM PST - 9 comments

Going out to all you literary scholars out there: does anyone know if it's possible to get hold of Sir Richard Francis Burton's translation of the Arabian Nights - without shelling out four-figure sums?
posted by Mocata at 7:33 AM PST - 8 comments

Tivo is at it again! If you were one of the unfortunate ones who did not win last time, here is your chance to save face. I just wish I could find a link to the new Joe Montana and Ronnie Lott "Stop Itch" commercial.
posted by Brilliantcrank at 6:50 AM PST - 18 comments

MacOS X built for Oracle?! David Coursey's "top ten" reasons why MacOS X was built so that Larry Ellison could become more competitive with Bill Gates. Sounds good to me.
posted by Brilliantcrank at 6:42 AM PST - 1 comments

Got a problem that needs solving? Need sound advice on one of those important life matters? Why not ask The Hideous Jabbering Head Of Abraham Lincoln? (via benicetobears)
posted by lagado at 6:12 AM PST - 5 comments

When headlines go bad : Missiles Hit West Bank Towns (Reuters) - Israel launched overnight missile strikes on five West Bank towns, killing a German resident, and Prime Minister Ehud Barak.
posted by tiaka at 6:05 AM PST - 2 comments

Web Tapestry, Cheap Names, Areti Internet Ltd. ... These are just a few of the UK based web hosts I have discovered while trying to find one for myself.

My question to any UK residents is: which UK web host do you use/would you recommend? The well known ISPs (Direct Connection for example) are extortionate.
posted by James Bachman at 4:58 AM PST - 7 comments

New Yorker to get Web site in January along with other Conde Nast magazines, officially becoming last publications on Earth to launch online.
posted by rcade at 4:24 AM PST - 7 comments

Poor Eli Lilly is going to lose it's Prozac patent protection soon, though not quite yet. via Follow Me Here
posted by dcodea at 2:16 AM PST - 5 comments