Friday, April 23, 2004

Things not from CFP2004: responses to this week's Doonesbury comic strip (in which shocking tragedy befalls a longtime character) The Smoking Gun's collection of backstage concert riders (In some cases, a promoter will refuse a demand (crossing out the request on the document), though stars usually get what they want, whether it's clean boxer shorts (Jane's Addiction), prune juice (Kansas), or an arrangement of tulips, roses, gardenias, and lilies (Janet Jackson). ) 11:24:55 AM    comment []

(From the Computers, Freedom, and Privacy blog.) The front page of the Chronicle reports, as mentioned at the Pioneer Awards last night, that Electronic voting machines dealt blow: Panel wants to pull plug in 4 counties. Recommendations on whether to ban the use of electronic voting machines in the 10 other counties that use them will be made when the panel meets again on Wednesday. Nearly half the state's voters used some type of electronic voting device in March. The action against Diebold Elections Systems is the first of its kind in California, and a spokesman for Secretary of State Kevin Shelley said he was unaware of any other state taking such action. The eight-member Voting Systems and Procedures Panel said problems with Diebold's newest model of touch-screen voting machine -- the TSx -- was prone to problems and that the company failed to have the devices federally approved in time for the March election. Here's South Knox Bubba's take on it. 10:24:46 AM    comment []