Random Thoughts

Another article on voting machines. And this one raises some very good, and slightly different, points. Via Slashdot.

The editor of Blah3 is getting hate mail from people who think his involvement in the Miserable Failure project somehow means he's anti-American. I thought it was just a funny social commentary (as well as a commentary on how a few bloggers can manipulate search engines).

Great article from the Boston Globe that illustrates how the "fog of war" often persists long after the war is in the history books. Via Daily Snopes.

ADD's choice for best superhero cover of the decade was apparently not a joke, and posts an equally-bad JSA picture for proof. So he thinks that a superhero cover should be boring, badly-colored, and static. Not much I can say to that, except that his tastes are completely different than 99% or so of superhero fans. He's entitled to his opinion, but I still have to shake my head in disbelief.

The Comic Treadmill discusses Alter Ego.

And lastly, due to the plumbing problems we recently experienced, I don't see me making my goal of saving enough money to get a new computer by my birthday, so I've set back my goal date to the Ides of March. While there are still a number of things that could happen to make it possible by my birthday, I'm going to bow to reason in this case and not be overly optimistic. I've also stopped trying to count blue screens because they are happening often and I'm usually busy doing something when they happen... so I get distracted by trying to count them. I'm averaging about one computer death for every two hours I spend working on the computer.