DeepDarkSee

Here is a different story about voting machines gone awry.  What’s different is that a County Clerk from a small county is taking a stand.  This is where the effective push-back will come from – and there are many people of integrity in key positions in local government.  Bruce C. Funk seems to be one of them.

I’m not against electronic voting at all, but I am horrified by the current state of the business process and lack of transparency.

So what if you extend AJAX running with a keepalive connection to allow the server to send updates/events to the browser code based on server side events?  Good in concept, and maybe it’s called Comet.  OK fine, you could do some fun and useful stuff with this, but don’t say it scales.  I’m tired of hearing great ideas that aren’t practical on a large scale (and keeping a connection open to EVERY user isn’t, no matter how you pitch it).  Great for creating some wonderful dittys, and some limited deployment apps, but not for scaleable web apps.  So many people don’t get this, it’s amazing!  I think these ideas have their place, and the creativity is great, but the naivete doesn’t help anyone.

or… “executives taking themselves too seriously,”  or just plain fun!

OK, here we have it.  A high energy Japanese video on how to peel a potato in one swell foop!  It’s actually pretty cool.

This 80′s Isuzu commercial called “Dancing in Paris” has some amazing precision driving in it. Even more, it’s just refreshing and wonderful.