"NEW YORK - A newspaper report Thursday said tens of thousands of eligible voters have been removed from rolls or blocked from registering in at least six swing states. Election officials lined up to defend their registration procedures and said they had done nothing...
"Ace Indian woman shuttler Saina Nehwal on Sunday won the Yonex Chinese Taipei Open defeating unseeded Li Ya Lydia Cheah of Malaysia 21-8 21-19. Earlier in the semi-final, Saina defeated Pia Zehadiah Bernadet of Indonesia in a one-sided match on Saturday. Saina became the...
"Internet betting websites and prediction markets are registering huge interest in the US presidential election, with trade already far exceeding the total for 2004 in some cases. volume is 600% up this presidential cycle, 2008 to date,...
Firefox 3 hit the web hard. Very hard. The Mozilla team is claiming victory in its world-record download bid, with over 8 million downloads in a 24-hour period."The early estimates from the Mozilla organization...
created by Jordan Yerman | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 210 views | 15 recommendations | 2 comments
Experiencing declining birth rates? You know who to call...Needless to say, it's probably just the charm of the Filipino above anything else :)" Filipinos appear to be populating the design and fashion in the city of Milan, with the Philippine consulate general there...
The intent of a 1993 federal law is clear: take voter registration drives to the people, especially those who use government assistance offices (welfare, food stamps) as well as driver's license offices. Now, however, ACORN, the umbrella activist group, says that Missouri...
created by PEP | 1 year ago 549 views | 2 recommendations | 4 comments
For the first time, the Nepalese were allowed to vote to determine the direction of their country. No one could have foreseen that the majority would vote for the Maoists, the rebels whose failed insurgency killed...
Certainly an experience for the residents of this small coastal town. It has been said that is a similar quake hit the vancouver area, low lying regions would be under 10 feet of water resulting in Surrey,...
"scientists at the University College London claimed this week to have taken the first steps towards building a “mind-reading device”.
Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scanners, the UCL team discovered they could use brief recordings of brain activity to...
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This Blog article from Wired references Biometric developments originally highlighted here Reference: Symblogogy, 2-10-2007.
>>By Noah Shachtman - June 11, 2007 | 4:59:00 PMCategories: Biometrics,...
"Nepal's former Maoist rebels begin handing over weapons
17/01/2007 - 11:38:07
Nepal’s former communist guerrillas began handing over weapons to UN monitors today, launching a landmark peace deal calling for...
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The memory cards used in Diebold touchscreen voting systems could carry computer viruses that would infect voting machines and steal votes on the infected machines.
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