Adam Fields (weblog)

… and sues Dell for patent infringement.

Whoa.

http://money.cnn.com/2004/11/02/technology/dell_de/

Attention new Democratic voters: It is VITALLY important that you stick around for the next few elections. If you take a single loss as a measure that your vote doesn’t count, you’re sorely mistaken. It does count. Be patient. Get energized. If you stop voting now, it definitely doesn’t count.

Spread this word!

Democrats, especially black and gay ones, must immediately mobilize to socialize with the rest of America. They must support every single little inch of effort to get broadband (real choice broadband, not AOL) to every last home in America. They must move into small town communities, and make their voices heard, every day. That’s it. Any other attempt to recover from this is doomed to failure. You can’t fight willful ignorance or belief with facts, numbers, or artful discourse. You can fight it with friendliness and social contact.

"Blendie is an interactive, sensitive, intelligent, voice controlled blender with a mind of its own. Materials are a 1950’s Osterizer blender altered with custom made hardware and software for sound analysis and motor control. People induce the blender to spin by sounding the sounds of its motor in action."

You have to watch the video.

http://web.media.mit.edu/~monster/blendie/

(Via Popgadget.)

http://blackboxvoting.org/#foia

Kerry had to have seen this coming.

It’s "all down to Ohio", amid allegations of vote suppression, mistmatched numbers, and electronic tinkering. My favorite assertion is that in states that don’t use electronic voting, the exit polls
match the actual numbers, but in states that do, Bush has +5% in the numbers. I haven’t looked at them yet, but I must admit that that would be suspicious.

Either way, I’m simply confused. How can it even be this close? How is it even possible that there are two sides and they’re so evenly matched? Why do the election results look suspiciously like we just flipped a few hundred million quarters?

(Update: Salon doesn’t think so.)