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Month: November 2003

  • Correspondences off the air

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    Our group blog, Correspondences.org, has been off the air for a few days. It was a server crash due to a sun-spot related blackout. Really. (I admit that sounds a lot like “the dog ate my homework.”) It’s back with all the archives, but the MoveableType software is still not working. Thankfully, some nice folks from Six…

  • Democracy is Not a Spectator Sport

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    Vote Early, Vote Often… Dan Gillmor [via Dan Gillmor’s eJournal]reports that the EFF is taking an agressive court tactic to try to keep Diebold, “a company that sells disturbingly flawed electronic voting machines”  from blocking (via cease and desist orders) student websites which are posting Diebold’s internal documents that have leaked. The documents in question allege…

  • Running Away from Nemo

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    Is there anywhere in America you can’t “Find Nemo”? In every circular in this weekend’s Sunday Paper from Best Buy to Circuit City to CVS, Nemo was on every damn page. On many websites, Nemo or his shark friend are animated and popping off the screen. I liked the movie. I even pre-ordered it for…