Journal: News & Comment

Links of interest (2004-09-26):

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• Dominant U.S. electronic voting machine maker Diebold stores its vote totals in a Microsoft Access database. Yikes.
  
  
• People swim just as fast in syrup as in water. (Note: the ideal swimmer would not have "the body of a snake and the arms of a gorilla"—the ideal swimmer would be shaped like a dolphin or a shark. Right?)
  
  
• What Would Devo Do?
  
  
• What do you call spam sent over an Internet telephone? Spit.
  
  
• Is it possible that the programs in Microsoft Office, such as Excel, have become a wee bit complicated?
  
  
• You know those little icons next to web URLs you see in your browser? They're called favicons. There are sites that collect them. Oh, and here's mine.
  
  
• If you not only stop maintaining your backups, but actually delete the old ones, you're on thin ice.
  
  
• A couple of late additions: very ugly shoes and user interface design patterns.

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