Saturday, October 30, 2004

Not on Nov 3rd?

I've come to believe that it is quite likely that this year, we will not know who is the next president of the US, as reports as this one by Greg Palaston Florida about possibly - or should one make that likely? - election fraud continue to increase. Naturally not for the USA media, but the BBC:

BBC TV Reveals New Florida Vote Scandal Republican "Caging List" - there is also a link to the boadcast from that page.

Martin Sieff of UPI has noted some reactions to the broadcast for the Washington Times: BBC report sparks Florida vote storm

Friday, October 29, 2004

More numbers, regarding the same perpetrator

Or, as the author puts it, A Timeline of Failure, for all the nearly four years of the evader in chief's illegal occupancy of a certain building in DC . . .

Bush By Numbers

And that is not about crayons on paper, but words that draw a rather ugly picture of four years of (under)achievements of the squatter in chief . . .

And anyone can seriously consider another fouryears of such a catastrophy?

Thursday, October 28, 2004

SFX weirdness

Or at least what I consider weirdness: due to the teams new top 250 listing by weekly referrals, instead of overall, I'm not in the top 250 Firefox referral list myself anymore - I have 2,100 overall referrals by now (and I had to log in to check that - blah!), which is pretty good for a non-large traffic, non-firefox affiliated site, I think - being pushed down by newcomers with 300 or so. One of the biggest referring sites, Overclockers Club, with 73,000+ referrals overall is 87 now, and top of the list at the moment is the SFX team itself, which I personally find somewhat of bad taste - hasn't anybody told them that usually "company employees are not permitted to participate in the contest?"

Still, do I care about my ranking? Well, if I am honest, a little. Or maybe a lot, though in fact not about the ranking as such, but about the IMO somewhat less that ideal attitude the team seems to have towards early supporters. Certainly, attracting new people is good, but in general, annoying the old isn't smart, since it's usally the early contributors who are committed to a cause. And it's usually them losing interest that does a bigger damage to a project than a slightly slower influx of new people. Ah well. For me personally, I'll certainly go on promoting
Firefox both on and offline, but my enthusiasm for the sfx website and the team is definitely diminished.

I am, however, glad to see that the number of
Firefox downloads is still steadily increasing, close to 6.7 million now and that with one day left, the number of contributors to the The New York Times Ad Campaign is over 9,000. I think it would be great if they would make if over 10,000 in 10 days. Which would come down to 1,000 a day and overall to four times as many as they had originally targeted.

Feedster

I'm not sure if this will work, and if so, how, but anyhow I've added the blog to Feedster - the following is just the backlink they seem to need, so no need to click here

Seymour Hersh Interview

Simon Hersh, for those unfamiliar with him, is the US journalist who much earlier in his carreer wrote about My Lai, just as he wrote about Abu Ghraib more recently. He's one of the few journalists remianing who still have the courage to do what journalist are supposed to do: report critically and ask uncomfortable questions.

The interview can be found here here.

In an aside, it seems by now even people from supposedly his own site are getting fed up with the liar in chief, as
this site demonstrates.

Wednesday, October 27, 2004

Fiore and Sutton

Their latest work at the Village Voice that is:

Mark Fiore: The Treason Hunters
Ward Sutton: Reasons to Vote for Bush

And here is also
something else I like from Ward Sutton.

I wouldn't have believed I'd ever be fond of something Bavarian . . .

but I like Munich's - Bavaria's captial - city administrators' decision to leave the virtual Empire of Evil and migrate to Linux OS in a project that has attracted world wide attention and I personally would like to see widely copied.

Naturally, as a fan of The Fox I am also mightily pleased to see them dump the menance to PC online security and switch over to Firefox instead. Again, lets hope lots and lots of other are going to copy them.

"Cannot find . . ."

A friend of mine show me this url and I found the page hilarious enough to link to it here. Go have a look for yourself to see - or more presicely, won't see - what cannot be found . . .

Defending The Fox

I don't know if the site mentioned above is offically approved by the Mozilla Foundation, or just a private project of the owners, but trying to make more websites more standard compliant - and therefore displaying correctly in Firefox - certainly seems a worthwhile effort.

So, for any Firefox users reading this here, if you come across a non-compliant site in your browsing, please take a few minutes to post it over there.

Tuesday, October 26, 2004

"Presidential Cockfight" by Margaret Cho

Presidential Cockfight by Margaret Cho and became and instant fan - I have already added her blog to my links - because she's fun, gutsy and intelligent. That on top of that she's also beautiful is almost unfair, but then again it's an excellent example to show that beautiful doesn't equal stupid.

Naturally, with that combination, and her smart analysis of the thief-in-chief's serial mistakes, she's also likely to attract less desirable attention, has these samples of idiocity proof. My respect to her for speaking out at a time when most seem to have lost the courage to do so!

More from her can be found on her website and Love Is Love Is Love.

More from my scary reading discoveries . . .

As usually, I won't say what it is about. Go and find out for yourself.

Firefox aims for 10 percent of Web surfers

Some interesting figures about Firefox download figures in this article at here.

As for the 10% by the end of 2005, the slight but continuous rise in Firefox - and Opera - use combined with IE's long overdue decline in user numbers seem to indicate it's possible. The hype around the NYT Ad Campaign has certainly not hurt, either . . .