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Tomorrow is the primary election in California. Go vote! Few enough people turn out in primaries that, particularly in your local elections, you can likely make a difference. And remember that when you have a long-ass, intimidating ballot like we do (my ballot is 5 pages!!) you can just vote on the stuff you care [...]

N.b.: blog comments are still broken here at No Maps. Open-source software doesn’t fix anything if you don’t know how to use it! N.b.2: post updated with a correction, & language clarified. __________________________ Today is the Day Against DRM, the Free Software Foundation (FSF)’s Defective by Design campaign day of action.  DRM stands for “digital [...]

The excellent Flonight points out on Wikipedia’s village pump that along with International Women’s Day this past Monday, March is Women’s History month in the U.S., and the National Women’s History Project theme this year is “Writing Women Back into History.” The connection to Wikipedia is obvious. Flonight points out just a handful of possible [...]

I voted for John McCain. That is, I voted for McCain in 2000, when he was part of a slate of candidates that was lined up to oppose the vulnerable, eloquent but awkward Gore, who was funny and smart in person but robotic on camera. If you’ll recall, there was a huge slate of Republicans [...]

I ride my bicycle home from campus through downtown, past several blocks of businesses — restaurants, hair salons, an Asian grocery, banks — where you see people on the sidewalk and people park their cars on the side of the street, just like in a vision of a vibrant small-town America you thought didn’t exist [...]

So there’s a key paragraph near the end of today’s New York Times article on legal challenges to voting, vote fraud, and McCain’s hyperbole (“McCain’s Warning About Voter Fraud Stokes a Fiery Campaign Even Further”): “Acorn said that of its faulty registrations, 20 percent to 25 percent were probably the result of duplications, 5 percent [...]

I am having an election returns viewing party! If you are reading this and are local you are invited. (Unless you are my crazy stalker. J/K.) If you’re not local and want to come visit that is always welcome too, of course. It starts at 6pm and is at my house; I plan to serve [...]