Archive for the 'Politics' Category
How to buy a standard in 10 days
If anyone else out there is stunned that yesterday’s ISO approval of Microsoft’s OOXML document format was not an April Fool’s joke, James Hogarth has an excellent recap of the entire saga entitled How to buy a standard in 10 days.
Unfuckingbelievable. Here’s hoping countries raise formal protests; if not, office document formats will remain incompatible […]
Nut-scratch Hatch
Nut-scratch Hatch image from the Daily Show.
Vote House
Janneke House for Salt Lake City Council! Now on to the General Election.
Electoral map weighted by population size
Here’s a great article bringing some sanity to a few wild claims about Bush’s election victory. Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall: November 07, 2004 - November 13, 2004 Archives
The article links to an electoral map weighted by population which explains why all the election maps were predominantly red dispite 48% of the country voting […]
Exit Poll Details - CNN.com Election 2004
This is a really interesting breakdown of who voted for which candidate by gender, race, education and a ton of other figures. <CNN.com Election 2004>
Just in case you don’t also subscribe to Slashdot: Politics, here’s a really interesting 3D election results map. <results2004_lg.jpg (JPEG Image, 1020x612 pixels)>
Lastly, this is highly suspect, but kind of fun. […]