The Alexander Litvinenko story spreads… If you have flown BA to any of these destinations since October 25:
you should read this article.
Update: here is the official British Airways notice.
[...]Vote Disparity Still a Mystery In Fla. Election For Congress ought to become the poster-child for why we need a paper trail with voting machines. An estimated 18,000 votes went missing from the machines, and we have no way to verify the problem. If there were a paper trail, [...]
Voted yet? I have!
[...]It’s always good to view the ballot well in advance of an election. Here’s a link:
Charlottesville’s ballot for November 7, 2006.
[...]Robert X. Cringely explains why the new bill is does the opposite of what it purports to do:
PBS | I, Cringely . October 6, 2006 – Risky Business
I wonder how much more efficient our law-making process would be if riders were no longer allowed on bills.
[...]Susan Cowsill is amazing. So is her band. They played tonight at the Gravity Lounge for about two hours, performing a bunch of her Continental Drifters songs, including The Rain Song, Someday, Peaceful Waking, and Cousin. They also performed songs from her most recent album, Just Believe [...]
On a whim, I put on my DVD of the Simpsons “Whacking Day” episode. It turns out that today, May 10, is Whacking Day! Go Barry White…
[...]Some scientists have succeeded in creating an insect-type eye. Very cool: BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Insect eye inspires future vision.
[...]I took the Wired 14.05: The Carbon Quiz and came up with a rough score of 14431, so I’m pretty green. I don’t drive a lot (in over 3 years I’ve managed only 25k on my car) and I don’t fly long distances a lot.
[...]As a close friend of mine said yesterday:
Imagine finding out that you can’t get to certain websites because they are hosted by someone competing with your ISP. Or you have to pay extra to not have those sites slowed down when you access them. Or you can no longer use [...]
Tonight I saw Wilco at the Pavilion here in Charlottesville. Great show. I’m not a huge fan of recorded Wilco. I like some of their songs and find myself fast-forwarding over others. Still, they are an interesting band, though Tweedy obviously has a lot of noise in his head in [...]
