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Writing from 2004

363 posts

  1. Know an Adult Star?

  2. A Life Aquatic, Spanglish, Meet the Fockers...

  3. Cassini, Huygens, Titan...

  4. Breaking News: WA Supreme Court Allows Counting of King County Ballots...

  5. What Disk Space Was Lost, Now is Found

  6. Hunting for Disk Space

  7. Posting to be light lite lyte...

  8. This Holiday Season, Mary Gets... A Troll!

  9. Wooster Collective: Street and Stencil Art...

  10. Markdown in b2evolution...

  11. Markdown 1.0.1 Released

  12. Clean Permalinks in b2evolution

  13. Adventures in Interdisciplinary Short-Circuitry

  14. More Privacy Issues in an Electronic Voting Machine...

  15. Letter to Guilford County Board of Elections from Election Systems and Software

  16. Correction to Prof. Tokaji's post "Provisional Voting in Illinois"

  17. I, Pizzaiolo

  18. Judd: Spam Blocking on Wordpress

  19. Dates to Remember for Cocktail Parties (or Our Final Exam in 'Quality of Information')

  20. Don't Bogart that Serial...

  21. Feeling Accepted...

  22. DU Bans Bev Harris... My Thoughts

  23. NRC: "A Framework for Understanding Electronic Voting"

  24. First Sale and a Patentee's Right to Prohibit Imports

  25. Google Alerts?

  26. Richard Posner, Gary Becker to blog

  27. Removing Spaces from Filenames

  28. The New Marketing; More Stencil Graffiti

  29. R.I.P. - Chris Wrobel, Freaz Dried Rabbi

  30. Alabama Recount Finds Changes in Vote Tallies

  31. interface grrl

  32. You can see that Spirit from Orbit!

  33. Activists crash tribute

  34. random shuffle

  35. EDRi Calls for Repeal of EU Database Directive

  36. NYT: Federal Plan to Keep Data on Students Worries Some

  37. Tribal Registration

  38. Calculating Word Frequency from the Command-line

  39. Charlotte Observer: State plans elections training

  40. Mozilla Search Bar Plugins

  41. A Simple Method for Inserting a Bloglines Blogroll

  42. Brined Turkey Day!

  43. Dan Tokaji on whatever the hell is going on in OH

  44. Land on the Moon?

  45. Joining the Verified Voting Advisory Board

  46. Cal vs. Fallujah

  47. Ballot pseudo-secrecy

  48. Right Polling Place, Wrong Table, No Vote

  49. A Picture Worth 1000 PhDs

  50. Election Verification Project Press Conference Thursday

  51. Imsology

  52. Join the club...

  53. The Grey Video...

  54. North Carolina is a mess...

  55. Getting older...

  56. {Berkeley, Blur} Photos

  57. Forbes: Diebold to Settle Calif. Suit for $2.6M

  58. News fromPanama's independence day

  59. New net lingo spotting...

  60. How To Upgrade to Firefox 1.0 from a Previous Version

  61. Revenge of the Sith trailer

  62. Comments: NYT's "New Standards for Elections" Editorial

  63. b2evolution: How to clear evo_hitlog?

  64. Lost Sounds @ BoTH

  65. Ugh... (local)

  66. Kerry Concedes

  67. My E-Day at the Legal Command Center in SF

  68. Evoting Experts blog launches...

  69. Crazy Halloween Costumes...

  70. Do You Know Where Your Polling Place Is?

  71. Designing Security into Campaign System Architecture

  72. E-voting usability: Touchscreen problems in NM, TX and FL

  73. Kim @ Wired News: "E-Vote Vendors Hand Over Software"

  74. Felten: LAMP and Regulatory Arbitrage

  75. Quick News: new CSS and new paper

  76. Autumn Moon Festival...

  77. Autumn Moon Festival...

  78. Ways the election could end up in the supreme court...

  79. NYT: Hacker Hits [UC Berkeley] Computer

  80. Punk and Stewardesses: Words you can type with one hand...

  81. Judd on Jon Stewart on Crossfire

  82. Quilter on the Mary Cheney BS...

  83. Nothin' Like a Master

  84. Google Desktop Search: Security Threat?

  85. Copyfight: Supreme Court Denies Cert in RIAA v. Verizon

  86. DoD Briefing Muck-up on Iraq Construction

  87. You Forgot Poland!

  88. bIPlog: Mt. St. Helens VolcanoCam Images: Terms of Use

  89. bIPlog: Mt. St. Helens VolcanoCam Images: Terms of Use

  90. A Search Bar in Firefox for California Election Code

  91. Diebold 512(f) Smackdown...

  92. Gates at Zellerbach

  93. Diebold 512(f) Smackdown...

  94. How to turn off Smilies in b2evolution...

  95. At PUBPAT's Request, Patent Office Rejects Microsoft FAT Patent

  96. NYT: Judge Strikes Down Section of Patriot Act Allowing Secret Subpoenas of Internet Data

  97. Gov. Schwarzenegger Signs Ca. Paper Trail Bill into Law

  98. Abe and Durant quotes...

  99. A picture is worth a thousand dead G.I.'s

  100. Doug Jones: "Comments on the EAC TGDC Testimony"

  101. Lucasfilm puts the kibosh on screening of twisted 'Star Wars'

  102. Microsoft Patents Ones, Zeros

  103. Written by Hemingway, closed to public

  104. "Election Guides for Geeks"

  105. NYT: "Fear and Laptops on the Campaign Trail"

  106. NYT: "Kerry as the Boss: Always More Questions"

  107. Terrorist Watch List Metadata Standard...

  108. Internet Withdrawl and Information Ubiquity

  109. How the Supreme Court Could End Up Deciding the Election Again

  110. Voting Machines by County in the United States...

  111. Ahnold signs Internet piracy bill; E-mail address required to share movies, music online

  112. Shelley controversy deepens

  113. Judd in the Blogosphere...

  114. A Google Browser?

  115. Poll finds 42% of likely voters don't trust voting machines

  116. Terrorist Spam?

  117. More underutilized parts of the DMCA... 512(f)

  118. If you remember anything this November...

  119. Legal Affairs - Kerry's Even Keel

  120. NYT: Switching Elections Technologies Late in the Game

  121. The Cover of This Week's Economist (20 Sep 2004)

  122. LA SoS gets his hands dirty

  123. Next Blog: "This Blog will be Deleted by Tomorrow"

  124. Spread Firefox - Hot as Hell

  125. A worm in the Apple

  126. Groups will prove elections are hackable; show and tell

  127. The SCO judge is hella funny...

  128. Geoff Nunberg and Paul Duguid's "Quality of Information" class

  129. NIH: Enhanced Public Access to NIH Research Information

  130. Indymedia Reporter as "Political Prisoner in NYC"

  131. Nader op-ed in WP: "Parties to Injustice"

  132. Ahnold stumbles: The Nixon-Humphrey Presidential Debate Never Took Place

  133. WPES: "Privacy Issues in an Electronic Voting Machine"

  134. Eyewitness to Death

  135. Florida primary tomorrow

  136. Pic of Joe from 1970-something

  137. Planet Hunting Gets Rocky

  138. SB 1438 Passes California Legislature, Now onto Ahnold!

  139. Joe no longer an FSF Licensing Volunteer

  140. Keep your eyes on the EFF's E-voting Archive

  141. Ernie Miller's 100th INDUCE Post

  142. Aaronsw makes Wired...

  143. AKMA's Random Thoughts: So Weirdly Wrong

  144. RNC Activists: Know Your Rights!

  145. Dugger: How They Could Steal the Election This Time

  146. Electionline.org (Electionline Today) RSS feed

  147. Dugger: How They Could Steal the Election This Time

  148. Police to Use Military Crowd-Control Equipment for GOP Convention

  149. SB 1376 passes CA legislature

  150. Secondary Chilling Effects: Cryptome Chilled by the FBI

  151. The Alberto no. 1

  152. PJ Harvey is coming... and we're going... nyah nyah

  153. The Olympics totally suck

  154. Xinhuanet: Russian claim discovery of ET spaceship wreck

  155. Bill Gates mugshot

  156. A reflective post...

  157. CVF: California Online Voter Guide

  158. LawGeek: Video unmasks closed-door Diebold meeting in Texas

  159. Lou Dobbs polls viewers about verified voting

  160. Doug Jones: Confusion of Myth and Fact in Maryland

  161. ITAA says e-voting researchers pusing open source agenda

  162. A new google hack: defeating unaccessible directories...

  163. Out in Napa: Regusci and Sequoia Grove

  164. Gates Rubber v. Bando - Abstraction-Filtration-Comparison

  165. The FEC 1990 Voting Systems Standards in PDF

  166. RSS mercenaries scrape sites for cheap... RSS of Drudge Report

  167. Conflicts of Interest between disability and election vendor communities

  168. Ode to a new blog

  169. Joe moves to b2evo!

  170. NASED Qualified Voting Systems

  171. True Geek: Creating RSS Feeds for sites with none, and building OO.o 1.1.2 (Mac OS X)

  172. Trans Am, tonight!!!

  173. Pitchforkmedia RSS feed...

  174. Hafner's NYT piece on obsessive blogging...

  175. Moore film held up... fascinating...

  176. Web bugs hit prime-time...

  177. Susan Sontag on the legacy of the second gulf war: toture photos...

  178. Periods of intellectual intensity...

  179. Micro$oft's Slash and Burn in Malayasia

  180. Secure your Mac...

  181. Avoiding mail delivery messages with vacation programs

  182. Review of Vice Dolls CD (Die Trying)

  183. Damning news for Rumsfeld and the Bush Administration...

  184. 208B: Blog Assignment 6

  185. 208B: Blog Assignment 7

  186. Spam Nirvana

  187. Dealing with RSI... Push-ups

  188. MovableType goes corporate...

  189. Quick round-up: GPL'd MS Exchange, Faculty say no to PATRIOT Act, Science.gov launched

  190. Syndicated on LiveJournal...

  191. Trifecta: p2p that couldn't be sued out of existence...

  192. New Google Blog hints at tons o' jobs!

  193. The first voting machine decision ever... 1897.

  194. Simpsons in the Bay Area...

  195. On Google and the subjunctive tense...

  196. We Need a Better Bullet-Bucket!

  197. 208B: Blog Assignment 5

  198. Diebold TSx banned in CA, other DREs decertified until conditions met...

  199. OpenOffice.org 1.1.1 to arrive for Mac OS X...

  200. How large is Google's server farm? A little financial reverse-engineering...

  201. So you want to be a grad student and new Herman Wouk book...

  202. 208B: Blog Assignment 4

  203. The worst part about Arnold as Governor...

  204. Queer Eye for the Country Guy

  205. The VLT sees Titan's surface!!!

  206. GMail "hackable"...

  207. Patents on Antarctic Biota, Playboy sues in its sleep...

  208. On Gmail...

  209. Friday CFP Pictures...

  210. Video and Audio of the EFF Pioneer Awards 2004

  211. Alameda faces presidential election with no voting system

  212. Electronic Voting Panel at CFP...

  213. Pictures at CFP 2004...

  214. CFP Plenary 6: Open Source, Open Society

  215. More pictures from CFP 2004...

  216. CFP WiFi stats...

  217. Tuesday at CFP...

  218. WiFi TOS at CFP...

  219. Feeds for CFP 2004 (an OPML file)...

  220. Legitimate Google-bombing?

  221. Getting Google to be more transparent

  222. Datamining the Unknowns...

  223. CFP 2004 Blogger wiki...

  224. Criminal prosecution of Diebold on the horizon in CA...

  225. Towards a Holy Grail of qualitative interviewing...

  226. GMail panel announced for CFP...

  227. A Book Excercise

  228. Bush attempts to replace national archivist with partisan...

  229. 208B: Blog Assignment 3

  230. Clink Review: Disconnection Imminent - Decahedron

  231. Google may change G-Mail advertising technology due to complaints, CA legislation...

  232. Saved By the Bell's Screech gets screwed...

  233. Calling all bloggers to CFP!

  234. A must have for bay area-ites...

  235. AMENDING THE PATRIOT ACT

  236. Google AdWords trademark policy change...

  237. A complication related to deleting your Google cookie...

  238. Terms of Service and scraping...

  239. Easter in San Francisco: Creeping Jesus Pub Crawl!

  240. Lawsuit filed over SAT leak...

  241. Cringely on dubious Micro$oft strategy...

  242. The OVC prompts "Oh. We See!"...

  243. Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore in the NYT on Kurt Cobain

  244. Restoring life to a failing PowerBook battery...

  245. UC Berkeley has an RSS feed!

  246. A dissenting view on the CFP...

  247. War reporting for flame wars?

  248. Did Diebold machines over-count for Schwarzenegger by a factor of 1.6?

  249. 208B: Danah's paper...

  250. YESSA to NOSA: NASA's open source license to get OSI approval

  251. The Berkeley layer of the Blogosphere

  252. 208B: Another SIMS blog...

  253. Cool new "share my OPML" feature: People Like Me

  254. Firefox convert...

  255. Getting to CFP on the bus/BART... (from Cal, EFF and Oakland)

  256. Biker gangs have lawyers too! (or Hells Angels all fussy in Finland)

  257. EFF debuts DeepLinks and MiniLinks...

  258. 'Fifty planets' could have life...

  259. Nasa shold go to the Moon and Mars with China and Europe (at least)

  260. 208B: Blog Assignment 2, this week readings

  261. Lessig on IDDs

  262. Sharing copyrighted songs is legal in Canada

  263. NAS Patent Reform Report due out early next week...

  264. Boalt surprisingly drops to 13 in U.S. News rankings...

  265. 208B: Blogs as a liability

  266. King-like copyright protectionism (Elvis, that is...)

  267. Alan Gushkin's talk at UC Berkeley - "Dealing with the Future Now: Creating a Vital Campus in a Climate of Restricted Resources"

  268. IBM goes for the jugular in SCO case...

  269. CLINK Review: "In My Mind All The Time" - Numbers

  270. Georgia bans female genital piercing...

  271. Bio-piracy? ...and patenting more than just Yoga (Ayurveda)

  272. Spring means music! (or TRANS AM IS COMING!)

  273. Who said on-line advertising is dead?

  274. How to ween yourself from Micro$oft...

  275. Animules...

  276. 208B: Another class is blogging...

  277. The pledge case... is a mess!

  278. California ACLU quietly weighs in on e-voting...

  279. Creative Commons on the GPL and LGPL

  280. Spanish Dancing

  281. The stock market and SCO

  282. Full text RSS w/ comments

  283. Round-up: M$ speech, Paul Allien, great blog survey, Diebold ATM crashes

  284. Credit card and licensing transactions...

  285. Markdown... all hail John Gruber and Aaron Swartz

  286. Confession re Grey Album...

  287. RSI in 2nd and 3rd world countries?

  288. 208B: Fischer, Granovetter, Social Networks and a damn crazy SIMS class...

  289. 208B: The Small-world problem, six degrees of separation, etc.

  290. Yet another reason not to ditch Hubble...

  291. Enabling full-text RSS

  292. Microsoft, free software, tax breaks and crack

  293. Jolly Roger Mickey...

  294. SCO sues an end user today...

  295. bye, bye Orkut

  296. Late on the Tyranny of Copyright... and "the Copy Left" vs. "copyleft"

  297. The DIY Grey Album, CC moving image winners...

  298. Need a font?

  299. A gorgeous picture of Saturn from Cassini...

  300. Mis-use of government databases... if only they had access to TIA

  301. the EFF "solves" p2p...

  302. Students using wired technology to cheat in classes...

  303. Grey Tuesday: creative genius cannot go unpunished

  304. Another Joy of the GPL: Typesetting Complicated Exams in LaTeX

  305. Ping's two-handed user interface

  306. One drawback of using a web-based aggregator...

  307. Dark, Queer Punk Rock! Malaqueerche!

  308. A great part of a great brief: Ed Felten's declaration in the EFF's BNETD brief

  309. Add to the cell phone wish list: Schedule volume synchronization

  310. Ellison v. AOL: Many organizations could be held contributorily liable.

  311. No Fulbrights for UC Berkeley grads this year... FedEx fucked it all up!

  312. Why your Movable Type blog must die

  313. The Beatles: 40 years of rock...

  314. I will invite anyone into Orkut... (If I had an account in the first place!)

  315. How to hack an election

  316. SCO is (officially) full of shit...

  317. How the hell does Bloglines make money?

  318. Why do NASA carabiners cost $1100?

  319. Schumpter, creative destruction and "the churn"

  320. SIMS student Sean Savage in the NYT... party car!

  321. SCO includes MyDoom in October 2003 financials!

  322. Freakin' Diebold security...

  323. Album of the week: Greaseball Melodrama

  324. Fugu Stencil...

  325. Al Franken knocks down Dean heckler...

  326. My interview with Mike LaVella...

  327. Federal Judge Rules Part of Patriot Act Unconstitutional

  328. Orkut: Finnish slang for "orgasms"

  329. SCO claims open source threatens national security

  330. Inspiration is theft...

  331. Copyright of facts is upon us! ARRGH!

  332. Another reason why major labels suck...

  333. $55 Billion due to viruses in 2003...

  334. Honeydew stencil...

  335. Colonialism... at Gitmo

  336. The Saddam/Osama connection... through the eyes of Bush

  337. Get your mars on...

  338. Shell script for terror alert...

  339. HR 3261 is bad news...

  340. Hubble cancelled...

  341. A p2p for printing books?

  342. Budget woes force UC to deny admission to 8,200 undergrads...

  343. Al Franken on Lexis

  344. Ring tone sales hit $3.5 Billion...

  345. Governator hikes UC tuition by 40%... second year in a row...

  346. Bush OKs manned moon missions...

  347. Share your feeds...

  348. Text of FBI's almanac alert

  349. Macrovision sues 321 Studios for 1201 and patent claims...

  350. The potency of cheap wine and cheap music...

  351. ESR on identity-good value

  352. How the hell do you pronounce "Siva Vaidhyanathan"?

  353. UC Berkeley information disclosure gets press...

  354. Kill MT Comment Spam!

  355. a little titilation: the iTunes DRM Stripper

  356. Killing one's mother [a quote of the day...]

  357. My first stencil...

  358. Free Speer...

  359. WebDesign Plugin: add_show (v1.1)

  360. Stencilism... a/k/a Stencil Graffitti Art

  361. cryptome: How the FBI Surveils the Net [Official Use Only]

  362. Just how crappy is Microsoft Word?

  363. Top ten albums of my 2003...