Scott at Polite Dissent discusses Aquaman.
Mike Wieringo is preparing for the hurricane. My heart goes out to everyone in hurricane country. Stay safe.
Wizard World Chicago is happening, and news is filtering out from the folks willing to take a break from fun. Check out Newsarama, Comic Book Resources, Comics Continuum, and Comicon.com for all the latest. And don't forget to check out the Comics Weblog Update-A-Tron 3000 for the latest blog entries, a good handful of which are covering the con. So far the news of the Bendis panel and the new Green Lantern series are the two bits that I found most interesting.
Cool pictures from the Opening Ceremonies. I would not want to be one of the guys wearing these pants. Those aren't statues, those are actors in statue pants. The history section was quite amazing, and I'm glad the CBC showed the whole thing. I just wish they had shown all of the march of nations instead of focusing on the Canadians once they came in. Yeah, I don't blame them... at least they showed it live.
Via Pacific Views, another article about E-Voting. Again, unless there is a human readable printout that can be used in a recount, e-voting might as well be throwing your vote away.
And as if that wasn't enough, here's a funny tale of an e-vote test. Basically proof that you can't trust voting machines, and it was provided by one of the few companies willing to provide paper trails. If the company that was confident enough to provide a paper trail had a serious problem in their e-voting software, how can we possibly trust the ones who refuse to provide back-up?
And, speaking of voting, the Electoral College guy has put together an animated gif that shows how the polls have changed the map day-by-day.
1,000 Reasons to Vote Against George Bush. I suppose it would be easy to come up with a similar list, if not so long, for just about any politician. Via MetaFilter.
Another shot of Methuselah the fish for you:
