CQ2: Ed Murphy

a well dug by the Baal Shem Tov

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:37:09 -0800

a well dug by the Baal Shem Tov

Hockney

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:33:58 -0800

Hockney

The Beatitudes (from The Sermons on the Mount and the Plain)

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:02:26 -0800

The Beatitudes (from The Sermons on the Mount and the Plain)

Stevie Wonder — Music of My Mind

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:51:10 -0800

Stevie Wonder — Music of My Mind

"It’s not who votes that counts, it’s who counts the votes."

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:09:13 -0800

“It’s not who votes that counts, it’s who counts the votes.”

- attributed to Joseph Stalin

"However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results."

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:29:23 -0800

“However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.”

- Winston Churchill

Chaos (conforms to SH-2004)

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:54:59 -0800

Chaos (conforms to SH-2004)

"Reality is the part that doesn’t go away when you stop believing in it."

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:34:35 -0800

“Reality is the part that doesn’t go away when you stop believing in it.”

- P.K. Dick (via John Perry Barlow)

Fishers of the Galilee sea

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:15:21 -0700

Fishers of the Galilee sea

guest chef Jean Bonner Drinkwine at The Farm for the MIR benefit

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:18:00 -0700

guest chef Jean Bonner Drinkwine at The Farm for the MIR benefit

Mr. Mulwray’s dam

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:55:00 -0700

Mr. Mulwray’s dam

Frank (Henry Fonda) “Once Upon a Time in the West”

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 21:01:42 -0700

Frank (Henry Fonda) “Once Upon a Time in the West”

"The older the stonework, the larger the pieces and the better the fit."

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 18:51:30 -0700

“The older the stonework, the larger the pieces and the better the fit.”

- LacusCurtius • Viae (Smith’s Dictionary, 1875)

"Computers should count votes (Score:4, Insightful) by symbolset (646467) on Friday October 23,..."

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 01:38:00 -0700

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Computers should count votes

(Score:4, Insightful) by symbolset (646467) on Friday October 23, @10:45PM (#29853869)

Once they’ve been granted suffrage. Not before.

I post this same post every time we have a computerized vote counting thread. My objection to this has nothing to do with whether it’s a secret proprietary process or a totally open FOSS solution. With each generation of computer technology we gain the opportunity to go wrong with greater speed than ever before. Yes, proprietary solutions are horrid and there’s some evidence that they’ve been used to steal votes and they’re truly evil. Unfortunately, FOSS tools can be abused too.

I guess my point is that the process of counting votes using humans is an important part of representative democracy because it doesn’t just achieve the goal of “counting the vote”. It also impresses on the participants the importance of sanity and trust and impartiality in the process, without which constant reinforcement we can expect democracy to rapidly go off the rails. Compared to that social good, the importance of getting same-day results fades in importance.

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- Slashdot Politics Story | Open Source Voting Software Concept Released

"Sir Iain was considered somewhat eccentric (e.g. he had a trick of moving his dentures up and down..."

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:06:47 -0700

“Sir Iain was considered somewhat eccentric (e.g. he had a trick of moving his dentures up and down while speaking, which he preferred to play on young women).”

- Sir Rupert Iain Kay Moncreiffe of that Ilk, 11th Baronet, CVO, QC (9 April 1919–27 February 1985)

"In 1894 he was severely mauled by an attacking lion, and was only saved when his Somali gunbearer..."

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 08:22:34 -0700

“In 1894 he was severely mauled by an attacking lion, and was only saved when his Somali gunbearer Abdullah Ashur leaped on the lion, giving Delamere time to retrieve his rifle. As a result of the attack, Lord Delamere limped for the rest of his life; he also developed a healthy respect for Somalis.”

- Lord Delamere

Isfandiyar, Khan of the Russian protectorate of Khorezm (Khiva),...

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:16:55 -0700

Isfandiyar, Khan of the Russian protectorate of Khorezm (Khiva), full-length portrait, in uniform, seated on chair, outdoors; between 1910 and 1915 Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection (Library of Congress).

Pedro Nunes

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 01:55:37 -0700

Pedro Nunes

Bannockburn

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:58:30 -0700

Bannockburn

"On 20 February 1974, Onoda met a Japanese college dropout, Norio Suzuki, who was traveling the world..."

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 02:43:26 -0700

“On 20 February 1974, Onoda met a Japanese college dropout, Norio Suzuki, who was traveling the world and was looking for “Lieutenant Onoda, a panda, and the Abominable Snowman, in that order”. Onoda and Suzuki became friends, but Onoda still refused to surrender, saying that he was waiting for orders from a superior officer.”

- Hiroo Onoda