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Here they are, in no particular order…

• Outkast – Speakerboxx / The Love Below
• The White Stripes – Elephant
• Black Eyed Peas – Elephunk
• Dizzee Rascal – Boy In Da Corner
• The Shins – Chutes Too Narrow
• Grandaddy – Sumday
• Basement Jaxx – Kish Kash
• Holopaw – Holopaw
• The Strokes – Room On Fire
• Radiohead – Hail to the Thief

Did I miss one of your favorites? Let me know? I love to hear new music!

Hello my 3 readers. I hope that everyone has had a nice holiday so far. Mine has been very nice as well, being able to see some friends and family over the past week was very nice.

For the article today, I have a little fish tale for you.

Forum: The fish that threatened national security

Like many college students who flew home for the holidays, I had to endure the latest airport safeguards in the name of homeland security. A lot of us have stories to tell, but only mine is a fish tale, a contemporary melodrama of the absurd to prepare you for future travels.

I hope you enjoy it! I will get my Top 10 Albums of the year posted soon, and then I will be out for another week or so. So happy new year if I don’t talk to you! Get those new year’s resolutions ready!

Here is a really interesting article that predicts some interesting changes in the American political landscape within the next 20 years… Q: What will happen when a national political machine can fit on a laptop?

Why the Best Voting Technology May Be No Technology at All

My model for smart voting is Canada. The Canadians are watching our election problems and laughing their butts off. They think we are crazy, and they are right.

I’m hoping that all three of you that read this site understand that I find this to be absolutely crucial. If we have no confidence in our voting system, then the system falls apart.

Also, the most amazing part of this article is the discussion of costs…

The 2002-2003 budget for Elections Canada is just over $57 million U.S. dollars, or $1.81 per Canadian citizen. It is extremely hard to get an equivalent per-citizen figure for U.S. elections, but trust me, it is a LOT higher. This week, San Francisco held a runoff mayoral election that cost $2.5 million, or $3.27 per citizen of the city. And this was for just one election, not a whole year of them.

We are spending $3.9 billion or $10 per citizen for new voting machines. Canada just prints ballots.

Now this is the kind of stuff that gets me. $10 per citizen just for the MACHINES! Canada runs their entire year of elections for $1.81/citizen. As he points out in the article, Canada and California are roughly equal in population, so it’s not a stretch that we’d be able to do this for a similar cost.

No Confidence Vote

If you spend any time on the Internet in the U.S., it is almost impossible not to know about the scandal involving touch screen voting machines.

Well Bob, you could say I spend a little time on the Internet…

Dude, seriously…. Jason?

Adam is the man!

It just keeps getting deeper. I’m not sure if this furthers my point from the previous post, (or if I even had a point), but it turns out this lady has taken “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up” to heart.

local6.com – Problem Solvers – ‘Trampled’ Wal-Mart Shopper Has History Of Injury Claims

A woman reported “trampled” last Friday by Wal-Mart shoppers desperate for $29.87 DVD players has a long history of claiming injuries from Wal-Marts and other businesses where she worked or shopped.