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The New, Free AOL offers AOL content and services to everyone at AOL.com:
For the first time AOL is offering our content and services absolutely FREE to everyone — you just bring the Internet connection.
Really? Not sure I (or anyone) needs it but worth a look, I suppose. XM radio is much-talked about.
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Via Q Daily News: “One public service announcement: if you have any problems voting (electronic voting machines that malfunction, officials that wrongly prevent you from casting a ballot, whatever), the National Campaign for Fair Elections has set up a toll-free hotline, 866-OUR-VOTE. The group has monitors and attorneys on-hand to help deal with problems as they arise, so it’s probably worth giving them a call with any issues.” Please post this on your blog and pass it on.
In other news, trolls associated with the voter suppression efforts underway are making prank calls to tie up the phone lines of services like this.
update: a few things:
In other keep in the vote news, check the robocall link – Laura Ingraham is making her play for the Ann Coulter attention-whore spot in tomorrow’s news by telling her radio listeners to call the Democratic voter protection hotline and hang up. Isn’t that cute? So, see, without even leaving mom’s basement her fans can make sure that minorities won’t get to vote.
updateder: how ’bout this?
You’d think the Governor would know who to call about this:
Despite delays, glitches, and other snafus, most polls will not extend voting hours.
In Denver, where the lines are long, the Democratic candidate for governor waited nearly two hours to vote, presumably for himself.
My recently repaired and returned iBook was acting up in a old familiar way. When it was newer, the trackpad used to manifest an annoying tendency of skipping around or refusing to move more than a fraction of an inch in any direction. Used to be resolvable by flexing the case gently or closing and opening the lid. But that gets tedious. So I managed to eke out one more warranty repair through AppleCare.
And of course, I have to play with the new toys when I go there: I didn’t notice PhotoBooth had some settings you could play with. This is the Thermal Camera setting š
The Genius took a look at the various innards under the keyboard and didn’t like the way some of the wiring was squeezed, almost crimped, in place. So they are opting to replace the top of the case and the associated wiring, in hopes this resolves the issue.
Fortunately this is a repair they do onsite, so no frequent flyer miles for this little beast.
Your current Word Count is 10625.
Now to keep an appointment at the Genius Bar to see what’s up with thing and its misbehaving trackpad.
<grumble>
One more day of AppleCare, so time is of the essence.
Today it’s important to go to the polls and vote.
Vote straight-ticket Democrat.
A vote for a Republican, any Republican, is a vote for torture.
A vote for a Republican, any Republican, is a vote for corruption.
A vote for a Republican, any Republican, is a vote for cronyism.
A vote for a Republican, any Republican, is a vote against habeas corpus.
A vote for a Republican, any Republican, is a vote against our troops.
A vote for a Republican, any Republican, is a vote against liberty.
A vote for a Republican, any Republican, is a vote against the Constitution.
A vote for a Republican, any Republican, is a vote against being secure in our persons, houses, papers, and effects.
A vote for a Republican, any Republican, is a vote against Social Security.
A vote for a Republican, any Republican, is a vote for “preemptive” war.
A vote for a Republican, any Republican, is a vote for incompetence.
A vote for a Republican, any Republican, is a vote for Bush.
Go out today. Vote Democratic.
Today is the first day of the struggle to take our country back.
Or you could follow Roxanne’s advice: do it because they can’t.
Rumsfeld an “obnoxious jerk and a war criminal,” according to Jack Cafferty?
and his question of the day:
Why do the military newspapers hate America?
“Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undone … The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.”
Martha has her own take on it.
National Novel Writing Month – My Novel:
Your current Word Count is 7889