“Paperless electronic voting machines ‘cannot be made secure‘ [pdf] according to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). In the most sweeping condemnation of voting machines issued by any federal agency, NIST echoes what critics have been saying all along, that due to the lack of verifiability, ‘a single programmer could rig a major election.’ Rather than adding printers, though, NIST endorses the hand-marked optical-scan system as the most reliable.”

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Golly gee whiz.

Like no one’s been SCREAMING that for YEARS. Nice to see the kids at NIST weigh in on this. Hopefully now all the naysayers will WTF up.

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Jim Winkler of the General Board of Church and Society of the United Methodist Church once again points the way to what I believe true Christians should strive for: Love.

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An Easter Lily in a greenhouse at the University of PA, Philadelphia (Leidy Labs). Every year they’d grow hundreds of these for biology students to dissect when studying plant reproduction. The greenhouse would be heavy with the fragrance.

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Cupid watching his arrows burn on the altar of friendship.

Close-up of a statue I saw at the Philadelphia Art Museum. It was part of a travelling show - the Campbells Collection (as in soup, yes, that Campbells - it’s actually pretty neat - all those paste porcelain tureens and bowls led to some insane paste porcelain sculpture. Luscious stuff. Serious eye candy.) Can’t find any other references to these on the web. If I can find the full shot of the statue, I’ll post it too.

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I think this is a Nian - for a long time I thought it was a Chimera. Yeee! No matter what you call it, it’d scare the crap out of ya!

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Boulder Public Library Main Branch Entrance.

A lovely truncated cone shape with a geodesic internal framework.

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