links for 2006-11-07

• recordonline.com – Poll workers struggle with vote machines
  Programming errors and inexperience with electronic voting machines frustrated poll workers in hundreds of precincts early Tuesday, delaying voters in Indiana and Ohio and leaving some in Florida with little choice but use paper ballots instead. In Clevel
  (tags: voting elections machines)
• Dolphin May Have ‘Remains’ of Legs
  (AP) — Japanese researchers said Sunday that a bottlenose dolphin captured last month has an extra set of fins that could be the remains of hind legs, a discovery that may provide further evidence that ocean-dwelling mammals once lived on land.
  (tags: dolphins)
• opinionistas.com » Blog Archive » Double Take
  We sit gaping for a second at the unmistakable image – blond hair, carefully-lined blue eyes, pert ski-slope nose, a set of culture-embodying features that’ve been branded into our heads for all eternity: Britney Spears.
  (tags: vietnam britney+spears culture USA)
• QWERTY Warriors
  (tags: AG office online brain cool Post programming education typewriter Entertainment useless fun flash game video web games webgames graphics ideas word words images work imported kill typing)
• Recipe for a Cooked Election Greg Palast
  A nasty little secret of American democracy is that, in every national election, ballots cast are simply thrown in the garbage. Most are called “spoiled,” supposedly unreadable, damaged, invalid. They just don’t get counted. This “spoilage”Propo
  (tags: america liars liberal politics voting elections election blogs cinema news Ohio crime progressive usa wtf events evil film fraud history law left journalism)

~ by SAP on 7 November 2006.