Morning Thoughts

What he says. Companies can yell "we're in great shape!" all they want, but we've all heard that before. What they actually do is what matters.

Bunny Suicides. I think I've seen this before... maybe even linked to it.

Lead singer buys leaked CD on eBay in order to punish the person who leaked it.

Speaking of CDs, here's a list of CDs that Sony produced that are known to be infected with a virus that masks itself on your computer in a clumsy attempt to prevent piracy. If you value your computer, you won't buy any Sony CDs. At the very least, you'll turn off autoplay. More about the problem here.

A voting machine refuses to let the governor of California vote. While there was a reason behind this incident, machines in the Virginia election reportedly wouldn't let some voters cast ballots for the Democrat. If you vote on a machine, you are throwing your vote away. Until voting machines have human-readable paper trails, they are worthless.

I guess the voters of Washington aren't all morons, after all. The absentee ballots still need to be counted, but they usually trend toward King County totals, and King County overwhelmingly voted against the really stupid initiative.

As for the anti-smoking initiative, I'm surprised that every single county voted for it. I still have issues with it, and I suspect it won't always be enforced completely... or it will be successfully challenged in court... but I'm still amazed at how it passed.