Open Source, Voter Verifiable Voting. The Open Voting Consortium (with which I am affiliated) is going to be demonstrating an open source, voter veriable, auditable, accessible to physically disabled voters, voting system that runs on commodity hardware and freely available operating systems: http://www.openvotingconsortium.org/ad/ovc-mar22-pressrelease.pdf [CaveBear Blog] —– nifty, this could save alot of money.

Call for position papers The ECOOP-04 Workshop ÎPhilosophy, Ontology and Information Systemsâ aims at providing a forum where the issues related to the use of philosophical ontology in object oriented information systems can be discussed. Key goals of the workshop are to secure, as far as possible, a measure of agreement on: – What philosophical […]

Confessions of a Semi-Successful Author. Today, on Salon [subscription or ad-viewing required], the travails of the mid-list author in contemporary publishing: If you don’t want to hear about the noir underside of publishing — if you’re a writer longing for a literary career, or a reader who’s happier not knowing that producing and marketing a… […]

Hardware, software, and nowhere. Working with sources from early 1980s, it is obvious that computers have changed, and we have changed our ideas about… [GENDER & COMPUTING] ——- isn't this position only speaking to commodity hardware and only in the time….. i mean nowhere today is still nowhere but the computer clubs in the 80's […]

US Govt “quietly threatening” supporters of online gambling. Matt Richtel reports in today's New York Times that “Federal prosecutors have begun a wide-ranging effort to curb the growing popularity of online gambling in the United States by quietly threatening legal action against American companies that do business with… [InternetPolicy.net] ——- why don't they just come […]

11 objections, 11 replies. BioMed Central just released (Mis)Leading Open Access Myths, a catalog of 11 objections to OA with a careful reply to each one. The objections are distilled from the publishers' testimony in the UK inquiry. This is a superb aid for advocates and for the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee […]

A. Marriage in the United States shall consist of a union between one man and one or more women. (Gen 29:17-28; II Sam 3:2-5) B. Marriage shall not impede a man's right to take concubines in addition to his wife or wives. (II Sam 5:13; I Kings 11:3; II Chron 11:21) E. Since marriage is […]

one more reason why i am quite glad i threw out the tv….

Collaborative web publishing as a technology and a practice. [This is the first of a multi-part post 🙂 ] It seems clear that weblogs existed well before they were… [Blog de Halavais] ——- alex is up to something…. and it looks good.