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For its 25th annual awards, the Razzies — which recognizes the worst
achievements in film — has named the Commander in Chief as a contender
in the worst actor category for his “performance” in the Michael Moore
documentary “Fahrenheit 9/11.” Dubya also received a nod for worst
screen couple for appearing with Condoleeza Rice and the book “My Pet
Goat.”
Ballot Boxing
is an interesting article in the Jewish Times on electronic voting
machines and their ‘security’ in the US. Despite the security issues
electronic voting machines will still be used in the upcoming
elections.
Considering how close the call was during the last US elections and how close it will be again according to current predictions
[via The Age], I was really hoping that some other countries would
suggest that the UN needs to sends observers to the US to verify the
elections. Maybe Michael Moore‘s “Keyboard Army” and “Video Army” (he is calling for volunteers on his site) will help with the observation on election day.
Even though the author gets several issues wrong (he says for example,
that an open source code makes a program less secure), the main issue
is very apparent. The Diebold voting system (at least in the version of
the source that leaked to the net) is far from secure.
As Netcraft reports this morning, it seems that www.georgewbush.com is trying to reject requests from Non-US visitors to their site:
Netcraft: Bush Campaign Web Site Rejects Non-US Visitors
Netcraft monitors web site response times from seven locations,
including four within the United States and three in other countries.
Since Monday morning, requests to GeorgeWBush.com
from stations in London, Amsterdam and Sydney, Australia have failed,
while the four U.S. monitoring stations show no performance problems.
When I just tried to go to the site from the Tucows office, it worked
fine, however I could not get there from a European network. Is he
trying to hide something?
[Update]: Now what about US citizens that live in foreign countries?
Are they not allowed to inform themselves about the program of their
presidential candidate?
[Update^2]: A colleague was just suggesting that the block was maybe
put in place by a few non-supporting ISPs. Would be a possibility, too 
I knew that Canada Post is very particular about getting addresses right, however I did not know this:
Here’s the full article saying that the US will already enforce the rules for mail to Canada on their end: Newsday.com – AP Washington .
How much man power is this whole verification going to cost (think:
unreadable hand-writing)? And when are we going to have to insert an ID
card when we drop off mail at a new electronic mailbox?
(via Newsday.com)
President Signs Defense Bill (Whitehouse press release):
Oh these words so true. And in their generosity they even thing about how to treat other countries the same way.