Diebold and Stealing the Vote: The Hack Saga Continues

Many on NowPublic have brought Diebold's questionable security to light in the recent past; this is yet another point in the case for paper ballots. "Imagine if all it took to get inside widely-used Diebold electronic voting machines--perhaps with malicious intentions, such...

Sometimes Justice Can Be Very Patient

"A white former sheriff's deputy who was once thought to be dead was arrested on federal charges Wednesday in one of the last major unsolved crimes of the civil rights era -- the 1964 killing of two black men who were beaten and dumped alive into the Mississippi River. The...

Sir Ken McDonald: "There Is No War on Terror"

In the linked article, Britain's top prosecutor points out the inherent fallacy in declaring war on an abstract."he director of public prosecutions, Sir Ken Macdonald, put himself at odds with the home secretary and Downing Street last night by denying that Britain is caught...

Kerry Bows Out of 2008 Presidential Race

"Senator John Kerry, the Massachusetts Democrat who narrowly lost the presidency to George Bush in 2004, stepped away today from what he had described as an almost all-but-certain second bid for the White House, bowing to a Democratic Party that was clearly unreceptive to his...

Only Posting This for the Headline

"Bush may mandate that automakers increase the fuel efficiency of their veh icles by raising the CAFE (corporate average fuel economy) standard, which has been languishing for 20 years. He is also expected to ask for more production of alternative fuels. If true, raising CAFE...

Military Builds Robotic Insects

"Israel is developing a robot the size of a hornet to attack terrorists. And although the prototype will not fly for three years, killer Micro Air Vehicles, or MAVs, are much closer than that. British Special Forces already use 6-inch MAV aircraft called WASPs for...

Dance Dance Revolution: The Great Arbitrator

"... if a teen has overdue books, she will dance-off against the person, and if the teen wins, the librarian will waive the fines. In addition, when the kids get into squabbles amongst themselves, she tells them to take it to the mat and dance off against each other."

Cross-Border Skiers, Are Your Papers in Order?

"New rules go into effect on Tuesday requiring citizens of Canada, Mexico and Bermuda to produce a passport on arrival by air in the United States. American citizens returning home from the three countries will also have to show their passports. "

Setting Back Interfaith Relations by 10 Years

"Sheikh Feiz Mohammed, head of the Global Islamic Youth Centre in Sydney, urged children to become martyrs for Islam and mocked Jewish people as pigs. Police are said to be investigating the tapes, which were exposed in a British TV documentary earlier this week. Top...

Hindus Opposing EU Swastika Ban

"Hindus in Europe have joined forces against a German proposal to ban the display of the swastika across the European Union, a Hindu leader said. Ramesh Kallidai of the Hindu Forum of Britain said the swastika had been a symbol of peace for thousands of years before the Nazis...

UN: Darfur Aid Operation Faces Collapse

"United Nations agencies on Wednesday said the world's largest aid operation in Darfur is under threat because of attacks and insecurity and urged concrete steps be taken to stem the violence. The joint statement said in the past six months about 250 000 people had been...

Unsigned Band Scores Top 40 Hit

The recent change in chart rules mirrors our shift in buying habits: downloading is here to stay. This is great news for anyone out there with a guitar, recording software, server space, and a dream.... and they named themselves after a Super Mario Brothers character."Essex...

DJ Drama and DJ Cannon Arrested in Atlanta... over Mixtapes

Apparently the RIAA now has a problem with the distribution method that lines its pockets by exposing upcoming, newly-signed artists. Mixtape CD's are nothing new, but this is a sad development in copyright-frenzy scaremongering.(I was pointed to this article by...

Australian National University Bungles Admissions: Confused by Surname "Smith"

"The case of mistaken identity was the latest administrative bungle for the ANU medical school's 2007 admissions process in which another department prematurely congratulated 80 applicants and retracted the emails hours later. But Ms Smith, 22, who learns tonight whether she...

Obama Takes First Step Toward Running in ‘08

As someone born and raised in the US, I really hope we're ready to elect a black president. Movies and television have been casting that role as such quite a bit recently, so we'll see if the voters will follow suit. It wasn't that long ago that a Catholic president was seen...