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Hack the Vote

Chilling.

Inviting Bush supporters to a fund-raiser, the host wrote, “I am committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year.” No surprise there. But Walden O’Dell, who says that he wasn’t talking about his business operations, happens to be the chief executive of Diebold Inc., whose touch-screen voting machines are in increasingly widespread use across the United States.

Some holiday fun with Anne and Doug!

Has day-after-thanksgiving shopping gone too far? I think this woman might think so… although she was there for the low, low prices on the good stuff herself…. Woman Trampled in Fla. Shopping Rush

Patricia VanLester had her eye on a $29 DVD player, but when the siren blared at 6 a.m. Friday announcing the start to the post-Thanksgiving sale, the 41-year-old was knocked to the ground by the frenzy of shoppers behind her.

“She got pushed down, and they walked over her like a herd of elephants,” said VanLester’s sister, Linda Ellzey. “I told them, `Stop stepping on my sister! She’s on the ground!'”

The kicker in all of this isn’t that none of the shoppers, in their frenzy to get to the $29 DVD player, helped up this woman (I mean shoot, 29 bucks?). No, the kicker is, after all the wal-mart employees pleaded ignorance (frenzy? what frenzy?), they offered to put one of the $29 DVD players on hold for her. Why not just give her one… can’t Wal-Mart spare the $29?

This isn’t even the first time something like this has happened…. last year it was a “herd of cows” that was knocking people over at a Wal-Mart.

In fact, it just hit me. Here’s how to stop all these tramplings at Wal-Marts across the country.

Stop letting large animals in the front door! What are those greeters for anyways?

This is a really fun article about the iPod, with really good quotes from Steve Jobs about Michael Dell trying to dance… The Guts of a New Machine

Whether the iPod achieves truly mass scale — like, say, the cassette-tape Walkman, which sold an astonishing 186 million units in its first 20 years of existence — it certainly qualifies as a hit and as a genuine breakthrough. It has popped up on ”Saturday Night Live,” in a 50 Cent video, on Oprah Winfrey’s list of her ”favorite things,” and in recurring ”what’s on your iPod” gimmicks in several magazines. It is, in short, an icon.