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• The Los Angeles Times has an interesting article on how “Super Tuesday” will be close. Hopefully, race won’t be a factor, for in South Carolina, it appears that white voters supported ‘Hil, and black voters supported ‘Bama. Andy Tanenbaum said it best over at Electoral-Vote: if Obama is to win, the battle must be characterized as “youth” vs. “old ( Read more... )

I know that many people on LJ, and on my friends list, like to read science fiction. I know I do -- I started with books like “Captive Universe” by Harry Harrison and “Welcome to the Monkey House” by Kurt Vonnegut, and went on by there. I have a small book collection; I have friends (such as ixixlix) that have much larger collections. Back in my ( Read more... )

Seen on securitymentor2. Somehow, this just appeals to the Computer Security side of me. Of course, this report is absolutely right: they do need a stronger Identification and Authentication Scheme. I do hope they implement the recommendations for the next term ( Read more... )

As folks know, I've been researching my family tree of late. Last night, I uncovered the first, verified, famous connection that is actually blood-line, not marriage. Drum roll please...

It turns out I'm related to (2nd cousin, once removed, if memory serves correct) Stanley Grauman Weinbaum. Stanley's father was Nathan Weinbaum; Nathan's father ( Read more... )

Had I been able to post yesterday (it wasn't appropriate to post from the meeting, and I couldn't from the airplane), I would have called your attention to the following:

• Yesterday was the 40th anniversary of the airing of the first episode of Star Trek. Yay! I do have to admit that I didn't watch it when I was 5-7. I discovered it in reruns.
  
  
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According to CNN, George Lucas has given his blessing to a 20-minute version of the entire Star Wars saga, done by the same folks that cut all of Shakespeare down to 97 minutes: The Reduced Shakespeare Company. The performance will be filmed during a one-off performance at London's Criterion Theatre on Aug. 17, and broadcast in Britain in the last ( Read more... )

Sigh. According to CNN, James Doohan ("Scotty") has died. That's the second from the original crew. Doohan died at 5:30 a.m. (1330 GMT) at his Redmond, Washington, home with his wife of 28 years, Wende, at his side, Los Angeles agent and longtime friend Steve Stevens said. The cause of death was pneumonia and Alzheimer's disease, he said ( Read more... )