I got some seriously choice spam messages this week. Here are some of the outstanding ones. The first one was hilarious – but even more hilarious that it decided to include the TV show “The View” in the list of the “earth’s ills” for a double punch line.

Diebold originally blamed a glitch that lost votes on anti-virus software but it turns out it was due to a flaw causing votes to not be recorded to memory when uploading votes from the external cards. It’s a wonder how something as simple as counting votes could have so many bugs in core functionality…

Wow, what a cool site. They even have ratings of CEOs but this can be an invaluable site when negotiating salary for a job, or deciding which field you want to get into.

And who thinks businesses don’t need to worry about insiders? Harden your soft-chewy center. The most puzzling thing is that she was let out on $100k bail, yet she is from Mexico and that’s where she wired the dinero…

A couple of great resources to help out with your last-minute voting.

Oops. Remember kids, disable directory indexing on your porn server! Or better yet, don’t mix shared data with stuff you wouldn’t want people to find on accident.

This is a great article, with some choice quotes from some of the folks on the ballot for this country’s first top-2 primary system. I have long hated the 2-party system, especially as gerrymandering has allowed the parties to artificially remain entrenched in government. And especially as the issues are more and more complex yet the parties try to divide the country evenly into two camps. I think the rise of independent and “swing” voters has shown that our views can’t be so easily divided along party lines. Although there are many of the “swing” voters who just seem to be lazy or noncommittal (as I saw during the caucuses when many had not even researched the candidates. No wonder they couldn’t decide! They wanted others to do the deciding/persuading for them).

-kite

This is especially funny in light of the revelations that it is becoming popular, especially in the UK, to use Google Maps to locate swimming pools to crash like this. I guess they better survey the area to make sure there aren’t any nettles first.

I was sad that when I was near Winthrop, WA this past weekend I was not able to break away to check out the Fairy & Human Relations Congress 2008 that was going on. I’m glad I remembered the website address so I could read more about it.