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Bad grades for a voting-machine exam – Salon (sorry) Riverside County, Calif., invited citizens to observe a test of its computerized voting systems. One participant was not impressed. Anatomy of a collapse – bbprimer the Cubs, the Fan, and Win%

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All the President’s votes? can democracy survive in America MLB: win prob. game state matrix debunking the DH & hit batters nonsense (addendum to ‘announcers say stupid things’ rule) Husker player -vs- Mizzou fan “It was literally a donnybrook,” he said. (via FARK)

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Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index 2003 Welcome to the Autumn Irony Festival – mivins El stinko to high heaven-o. US newspapers barraged with same letter from different soldiers more fake astroturf stories, this time pro-reconstruction

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JUMPERS – newyorker The fatal grandeur of the Golden Gate Bridge. Prospectus Q&A: Kevin Towers – Part I – Part II Tramp Lamps (via boingboing) Science of Cooking – explOratorium

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Photoshop This: Ahnold paying no attention to the man behind the curtain A very acrobatic Derek Jeter Failed State The trail that took California from 1978 to Schwarzenegger (via TAP) Study: Wrong impressions helped support Iraq war this just in: people are stupid, Fox doesn’t help It’s Even Worse Than You Think where $400B = […]

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A bad bet – HST $87,000,000,000.00 Under W everything is political – adbusters IBM Emancipates 8,000 Wage Slaves (TheOnion – America’s Finest News Source) Castoffs and Cutouts The Top 50 Most Common Used CDs – pitchfork Jonathan Bailey’s Out-Of-Office Auto-Responder for 12 September, 2003 – mcsweeneys Analysis of the MediaMax CD3 Copy-Prevention System Great collected […]

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Microsoft moves to integrate Windows with BIOS DRM embedded in hardware? Unintended Consequences: Five Years under the DMCA

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Word morphing game – SD threadspotting Greep, Irrelephant, Chronomaly, Kissaster, Sobotage, Gheezer, Cultitude, Indecentipede, Shomit, Wankering, Sandwelch, Packle, Profunity… Your mum and dad, they try their best – jcarroll It would be weird if they didn’t dislike you. Blogger Boobie-Thon raising money for The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation 2 x 2

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On the Issues recall humor – if only it was a funny situation

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Photoshop This: Childhood Nightmares Playoff Prospectus : Red Sox vs. Athletics Google for governor Least Affordable Metropolitan Statistical Areas Out of Reach, 2003 You should walk Barry Bonds when …

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