http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8367786376074634512&q=hacking+democracy

Maybe we need to start working on open source voting machines. The only way I can describe this is disgusting, but at the same time, it's unsurprising.

Wtf. Cyveillance, the RIAA's (among others) lackeys who were scanning my site with an unregistered bot a while back, are at it again ( Read more... )

For those who are interested, I've set up a PGP account on my machine so I can be sent encrypted emails or files if the need arises. With the current state of things, I think the need and desire for privacy is very valid and I'd encourage those with a similar lurking paranoia about the next few years to look into setting up a PGP key pair of their ( Read more... )

So I was looking at my records for school this morning. The system had locked me out after that hiatus I took so I couldn't check my grades or anything when I finally went to do so. They apparently unlocked it again after this term. So upon looking at my grades, I realized that have not one, but two F's on my record. O_O ::headdesk:: Not what a ( Read more... )

Perhaps a little late, but I hope everyone had a good independence day. My dad, sister, nephew, and myself went and had a picnic at a local park on the fourth. We just spent the day relaxing and cooked food out on the grill. It was a nice day, albiet a little long.

On the fifth, I joined orcapotter, faerie_speak, anijgrl7, and hermione_like for her birthday. We all went out to Downtown ( Read more... )

Updated parts of Photophobic this evening. The biggest change was that I uploaded my final draft of lumos, orcapotter's site that i've been neglecting somewhat. You can look at the framework by going here even though there's no content yet. I worked hard to make it easily updatable by using server side includes to insert body portions from a ./data directory ( Read more... )

"In the ramifications of Party doctrine she had not the faintest interest. Whenever he began to talk of the principles of Ingsoc, doublethink, the mutability of the past and the denial of objective reality, and to use Newspeak words, she became bored and confused and said that she never paid any attention to that kind of thing. One knew that it was ( Read more... )

http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/05/11/04/2246212.shtml?tid=230&tid=17&tid=219
http://www.thetartan.org/news/2005/10/31/fedsI knew there was a reason I liked Carnagie Mellon ( Read more... )

I'm going to have to do this eventually so I may as well bite the bullet and make it now. I'm thinking list form might be best just for the sake of ease. Here's my Witching Hour rundown...

( Day -1: Tuesday )

( Read more... )