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Archive for February, 2008

Slate V on Life Imitating The West Wing

Allison passed me a link to a video about the comparisons between Barack Obama’s campaign for President of the United States and the fictional Santos Campaign on the TV show The West Wing via email today. I have mentioned that I’m a fan of The West Wing before. I didn’t necessarily agree with […]

Ed Felten on Electronic Voting

Although Ed Felten has recently gotten tons of press about his research group’s recent analysis of breaking hard drive encryption, I wanted to talk about some research that he’s done previously on electronic voting for several reasons. First, I mentioned voting in my last post. Second, I have blogged about electronic voting here […]

Lessig for Congress?

Lawrence Lessig, perhaps best known for his creation of Creative Commons licensing, is considering a run for Congress. His possible campaign website, and the somewhat related change congress website, talk about the kind of change that Congress needs. While the talk is good, I am not sure it’s anything new. People have […]

JFK Assassination Documents Uncovered

Fox News is reporting that some lost documents and artifacts relating to the assassination of JFK were found in a Dallas courthouse. As someone who has been fascinated with the JFK assassination for years, this is obviously interesting news for a variety of reasons.
My first reaction was the sort of comic imbalance […]

Statement Week

It has been a statement week for the Purdue Men’s Basketball team, which has had back-to-back wins against two top ten teams. They have won their last ten games and sit atop the Big Ten Conference. Their latest victims have been Wisconsin, who had won their last 16 home conference games, and Michigan […]

Cheaters Never Prosper

To the New England Patriots: Sorry about your legacy guys. Have fun in the off season. And don’t worry about the cheating thing. I’m sure Goodell will appease Arlen Specter while the Giants are out celebrating their win. Hey, maybe Tiki Barber will commiserate with you.