Category Archives: Politics

Sci-Fi Future: Bioengineering

April 30, 2008 – 9:10 am

On one of our recent dates, Kathy and I had stopped by the local pet store to browse around a bit. While passing by the fish, I noticed tank full of fish that were even more brightly colored than the usual tropicals. When asked, a salesperson explained to me that they were GloFish: zebra fish [...]

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Gambling More Reliable Than Voting

April 11, 2008 – 8:07 am

Over at his weblog, my friend Jim Roepcke posts an interesting comparison of the regulations governing slot machines and those over electronic voting machines. It’s pretty sobering, and makes The Onion’s story on the election results being released in advance look alarmingly plausible.
It’s absolutely ridiculous that software that does something as straightforward as polling should [...]

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Goings-On

March 10, 2008 – 9:03 am

“I’ve been one poor correspondent, I’ve been too too hard to find…”
Sorry about the scant posting of late, my little chickadees. Lots of life going on, and the A Photo A Day project was sucking up a bit of time in February, even though I didn’t manage to totally complete the challenge I set myself.
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Am I Hot Or Not: The George W. Bush Edition

December 18, 2007 – 9:23 am

Steven Levy has a very interesting article over at Newsweek where he talks about William Poundstone’s upcoming book Gaming the Vote: Why Elections Aren’t Fair (and What We Can Do About It).
The gist of it, to steal both men’s thunder, is that by giving the election to the candidate who got the most votes even [...]

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