I Never Promised You an Organic Garden

As the Presidential campaign heats up and we move closer to the 2008 elections, the potential problems with electronic voting become more and more pressing. Between the lack of a paper trail, closed-source software, and the hackability of voting kiosks, there are some serious potential concerns.

Personally, I think if done the right way, electronic voting could be safe and possible, but it would require open-source software, stronger checks and balances, a paper trail, and most importantly, our shadowy overlords preventing Diebold from leaking the election results early:

Definitely makes you think!

For all you Star Wars fans:

I heard this song recently on net@nite then saw the video in Amber Mac’s blog. It keeps getting stuck in my head so I thought I would share.

The video is actually created by cutting and pasting together various Apple iphone commercials to make the lips of the man match the words in the song. Pretty impressive if you ask me.

The other night Matt and I were watching the video podcast Geek Brief with Cali Lewis, and I got to thinking…where are all the hot young male video podcast hosts?  There are numerous young attractive female geek hosts like Amber McCarther, Calie Lewis, and Veronica Belmont, but there doesn’t seem to be anyone for us loyal female fans to enjoy.

Don’t get me wrong, I listen to a lot of podcasts featuring wonderful male hosts with great voices. Especially Wil Harris, you just can’t go wrong with a smoldering British accent, but I wouldn’t mind a pretty face to go with my tech news.

Obviously, the largest section of the tech community audience is male, and that makes the cute female host the first choice, but it would definitely help to draw in more female listeners if they threw in an attracitive male host or two.

It is nice to see that Bill Gates has a sense of humor! This video was shown at this year’s CES (Consumer Electronics Show) just before the Gates keynote address. It shows how powerful he really is to be able to get this many famous people in a spoof video like this.