Slactivist moved to TypePad. His new URL is
http://slacktivist.typepad.com/
I don't mention bookmark changes much, but I mention this because
Slactivist is one of my favorite blogs, and I've been meaning to plug it
for a while. It's not updated much, and the old version was about as
simple as you can get (check out that 1993
retro design). But Fred Clark's writing is great and very thoughtful.
He's a progressive Christian, a voice I don't hear much from in my
day-to-day life. From that perspective, he provides excellent analysis of
Bush's Christian references that I find very interesting.
Diebold Security Flaws -- unbelievable
Salon:
An open invitation to election fraud.
I haven't been following the electronic voting controversy aside from
"voter-verified good, no audit trail bad". This Salon interview with Bev
Harris blows the doors right off this scandal. Harris uncovered
internal memos
that show that Diebold knew about security flaws two years ago and didn't
fix them. Most unbelievable is that Diebold's centralized vote database,
GEMS, is easily hackable over the internet! (What do you expect: it
stores the votes in a Microsoft Access file.) And since GEMS counts
optical scan ballots as well as Diebold touch screen computer ballots, not
even voter-verified ballots are safe (though you can do a hand recount
with optical scan).
These people need to be stopped.