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Wednesday, April 28 2004

what if we could build a system to help police developing nations

At The Embassy Visual Effects, a "spec corporate/commercial video" showing a humanoid robot patrolling the streets of a third-world country. (The country depicted appears to be South Africa.)

"What if we could build a system to help police developing nations" the video asks?

What if we could build a system to help people get the water they need to live?

Tuesday, April 20 2004

Worst. Album. Covers. Ever.

List 1, and list 2.

Monday, April 19 2004

Cleven Goudeau, pioneering black cartoonist and greeting-card creator

Interesting article at SFGate on (70-year-old?) Cleven Goudeau, cartoonist and creator of the first national line of black greeting cards. He's featured in an art exhibition along with several other (black?) cartoonists at Chatterbox Gallery in San Francisco.

Wednesday, April 14 2004

Sperm race

Those crazy Brits at BBC Three are going to have a televised sperm race.

Friday, April 9 2004

California: More Electronic Voting Problems

Slashdot discussion of how Diebold's machines miscounted 2821 absentee ballots in the San Diego election last month. It's not clear from the article, but it looks like the problem was only caught because the original ballots still existed, as they were mailed-in absentee ballots; with Diebold's touchscreen ballots, which don't come close in record-keeping to absentee ballots, it's hard to see how anyone could have discovered that there was a problem.
Older: a poll worker's account of voting glitches in San Diego on election day.

Friday, April 2 2004

Tell Starbucks to Stop Using Foofy Drink Size Names

Working for Change Petition:

"Don't let Starbucks be the boss of you. Tell Starbucks to stop using the pretentious 'tall, grande, and venti®' labels to describe the sizes of their drinks and use 'small, medium and large' instead. And while you are at it, mention you'd like them to serve you BGH-free milk along with your fair trade coffee."

The Dangers of Electronic Voting: Recap

Wired News has a good, long article with history on the whole electronic voting machine mess, how people discovered (despite threats of lawsuits, stonewalling, and lies by the voting machine vendors) the major problems with the voting systems many states have bought or are in the process of buying, and just how bad things can get. Read it. Really.

And get yourself an absentee ballot now. Not only can you be assured that in case of fraud, technical problems, or too-close-to-call elections, your ballot can be recounted accurately; but you don't have to go to the polls on election day - you can fill out your ballot in advance and mail it in, or drop it off on election day.

About this site

This is the personal web site for Edward (Ed) Piou. Consisting mainly of a blog (operational since 1999) and various photos.

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