] The Department of State has notified elections
] supervisors that touchscreen ballots don't have to be
] included during manual recounts because there is no
] question about how voters intended to vote.

Yeah, definitely.

Herald.com: Miami & Ft. Lauderdale News, Weather, Dolphins & More

] NEW YORK (AP) -- Philadelphia Flyers center Jeremy
] Roenick broke his jaw Thursday night when struck in the
] face by a puck against the New York Rangers.

!!! Ouch!!!

SI.com - NHL - Flyers center Roenick suffers broken jaw on slap shot to face - Thursday February 12, 2004 11:06PM

] News and notes about the ongoing work of the Center for
] Responsible Nanotechnology (CRN).

Had you seen this site before?

Responsible Nanotechnology

] Brit Hume is the Fox anchor who helped orchestrate the
] Republican-led 39-hour Senate talk-a-thon intended to
] counter the Democratic filibuster against four of
] President Bush's most radically conservative judicial
] nominees.
] Hume and fellow anchor Tony Snow pitched the idea
] outright to Senator Majority Leader Bill Frist on Fox
] News Sunday, challenging the Senator's repeated
] contention that an all-night protest session would be
] counterproductive. Two weeks later, the two-day marathon
] session was announced.
] Having successfully prodded Frist to hold the all-night
] session, Hume sought special coverage of the event.
] According to a leaked email, a producer for Hume's
] evening news show, Special Report with Brit Hume, worked
] directly with a staffer for Senator Frist, in an effort
] to choreograph the launch of the Republican protest as a
] "live opening shot" for Hume's November 12 newscast. As
] reported in The Hill, the leaked memo read:
] "It is important to double efforts to get your boss
] to S-230 on time ... Fox News Channel is really excited
] about this marathon and Brit Hume at 6 would love to open
] with all our 51 senators walking onto the floor -- the
] producer wants to know will we walk in exactly at 6:02
] when the show starts so they get it live to open Brit
] Hume's show? Or if not, can we give them an exact time
] for the walk-in start?"
] Hume's behavior in this incident shatters any illusion of
] 'fair and balanced' journalism. Worse, it evidences an
] effort to orchestrate PR coups for Bush Republicans.

Wow. I didn't realize it was this bad. I read this in a thread discussing how the National Press FOundation should not honor Brit Hume as its Broadcaster of the Year. Worth checking out.

MoveOn.org: Media Corps: Award to Fox anchor prompts outrage

inignoct wrote:
] ] This proposed amendment, regardless of what Bush or its
] ] backers say, would impose a complete ban, at all levels
] ] of government, on same-sex marriages. While Bush claims
] ] it's necessary to handcuff "activist judges", the
] ] amendment would prevent the will of the people -- in the
] ] form of state legislatures -- from providing those
] ] benefits if they so chose.
]
] [ Preposterous. And the best part? The majority of people
] will support it. Interestingly, the numbers for 18-29 year
] olds are almost exactly the reverse of the overall numbers.
] This is an ongoing problem with politics. The young permit
] the old to set the agenda, meaning we'll have to go back and
] change it all in 20 years. Granted, the baby-boomer situation
] is going to put the young at a numerical disadvantage, but
] still, apathy is not your friend. -k]

Ryan-- I might add, despite claims otherwise, the proposed language would, in fact, ban all legal indications of marriage for homosexuals as well. So, civil unions would also not really be allowed.

RE: Daily Kos || Bush backs gay marriage amendment

] My mother is insane. Like, one of those ladies you see on
] the local news insane. Since it's inevitably going to
] come up I'll get out of the way that I am too, but at
] least I take a full dose of my medication. I've been
] meaning to make this thread for about the last year, but
] the longer I waited the more interesting the situation
] became. Also, I'm incredibly lazy. Case in point, these
] pictures are about three weeks old. Anyway, lets take a
] tour of our house.

This is truly amazing. Guy catalogs his mothers addiction to ebay. There is very little of this house not covered in stuff. Worth a look.

The Awful Forums - My mother is insane (~5M of photos)

Elonka wrote:
] ] This experiment is designed to test whether you can spot
] ] the difference between a fake smile and a real one
] ]
] ] It has 20 questions and should take you 10 minutes
] ]
] ] It is based on research by Professor Paul Ekman, a
] ] psychologist at the University of California
]
] Personally, I suck at this kind of thing... I need more
] context than just a face. But I still found it interesting,
] especially the discussion at the end.

Seventeen out of twenty MOFO! I'm actually really good at reading people, however. Sweet.

RE: BBCi - Science - Human Body - Spot The Fake Smile

Very interesting link-- Dell has a Linux development blog open to the public!

Dell - Dell Linux Blog - What's New

] The Massachusetts high court ruled Wednesday that only
] full, equal marriage rights for gay couples -- rather
] than civil unions -- would be constitutional, erasing any
] doubts that the nation's first same-sex marriages could
] take place in the state beginning in mid-May.
]
]
] The court issued the opinion in response to a request
] from the state Senate about whether Vermont-style civil
] unions, which convey the state benefits of marriage --
] but not the title -- would meet constitutional muster.
]
]
] "The history of our nation has demonstrated that separate
] is seldom, if ever, equal," the four justices who ruled
] in favor of gay marriage wrote in the advisory opinion. A
] bill that would allow for civil unions, but falls short
] of marriage, makes for "unconstitutional, inferior, and
] discriminatory status for same-sex couples."

CNN.com - Massachusetts high court: Same-sex couples entitled to marry - Feb. 4, 2004

] HOW TO WIN "SUPER MARIO BROS

This link is officially the most absurd waste of time I have ever seen. Simply stunning. The site catalogues how to beat the original Super Mario Brothers giving the exact key sequence required. Basically, it is using tablature. Amazing.

RSG-SMB-TAB