Month September 2003

IEEE members: save electronic voting from a broken standards-committee! From Smart Mobs, discussion of the EFF campaign to prevent a standards committee on electronic voting from being manipulated and  misled by those very companies who make the voting machines. These…

Hmmm From reader Bob Goodsell It looks like the first-and-last letter thing you mentioned a few days ago may have caught Tom Brokaw. Tom Tomorrow says that Brokaw said “Israel” three times when he meant “Isabel.”

How to win friends From Bahgdad Burning Everyone is worried about raids lately. We hear about them from friends and relatives, we watch them on tv, outraged, and try to guess where the next set of raids are going to…

UN assembly demands Israel drop threat to ArafatCircumventing a U.S. veto in the Security Council, the U.N. General Assembly demanded on Friday that Israel drop its threat to deport or harm Palestinian President Yasser Arafat. The vote in the assembly…

Avast me scurvies, it’s Talk Like a Pirate Day! Top Ten Pickup lines for use on International Talk Like a Pirate Day 10 . Avast, me proud beauty! Wanna know why my Roger is so Jolly?9. Have ya ever met…