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Demand for Apple Computer's new all-in-one iMac G5 has risen...
Overheard in line at my polling place this morning.... "I think all the ones with the white headphones are voting for Kerry."
Link Yeah baby! .< 9:15:03 PM  >Martin to visit Sudan, call for end to humanitarian crisis Canadian Press - OTTAWA (CP) - Prime Minister Paul Martin will visit strife-ridden Sudan to urge the government to halt ethnic and religious violence that has driven 1.5 million people from their homes. [Via Yahoo! News - World] .< 8:37:34 PM >Rocking the vote Singers up and down the country have been urging young people to get out there and vote. Here's a little of what they've had to say. [Via Guardian Unlimited World Latest] 'If you're listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you're a bigger moron than they are,' says Alice Cooper. His fellow entertainers, however, beg to differ. Singers up and down the country have been urging young people to get out there and vote. Here's a little of what they've had to say. .< 8:31:05 PM >Federal-provincial-territorial ministers agree on national child-care program (Canadian Press) Federal and provincial social ministers agreed in principle Tuesday on the need for a national child-care program, including early childhood education. [Via Yahoo! News - World] .< 8:29:00 PM >Final push on day of reckoning Jonathan Freedland: President displays 'total Zen attitude' despite poll qualms. [Via Guardian Unlimited World Latest] 'Confidence was certainly the explicit theme of the president's words, but also his body language. He seemed relaxed; laughing and back-slapping as he landed in Ohio. His campaign mastermind, Karl Rove, was just behind him, wearing an anorak - and a smile. Aides said Mr Bush was not just putting on a show for the cameras. "He has a total Zen attitude about it," said Mark McKinnon, the president's chief media strategist. The Bush team also said they drew some comfort from the final batch of polls. "Ultimately, you can argue the numbers either way, but my acid test, at the end of the day, is I'd rather be us than them going into the final 24 hours," Mr McKinnon told the New York Times. But there was none of the cockiness that previous winning campaigns have exuded on election day. Those on board the Bush plane reported a subdued mood, with key players on edge. "Everybody's nervous," conceded Mr McKinnon. Republican anxiety centred on the president's failure to achieve any last-minute surge in the polls. Mr Rove was said to have hoped to create a "bandwagon effect" that would make the incumbent unstoppable, but that did not come.' .< 8:15:45 PM >British bookmakers report flurry of bets on Kerry victory (AFP) AFP - While the US presidential election still looks too close to call, Britain's betting community was shifting its money quickly in favour of a victory for John Kerry, bookmakers said. [Via Yahoo! News - World] That's my feeling. Here's hoping it's not wishful thinking. .< 8:01:14 PM >Fired-Up Florida Turnout Could Favor Kerry In a turnout that seemed to favor Kerry, galvanized Floridians hit the polls in droves in hopes of avoiding a repeat of 2000 [Via MSNBC.com: Newsweek] .< 7:58:19 PM >Global warming 'will leave Arctic ice-free' Arctic ice-cap melting at such an unprecedented rate that by the summer of 2070 it may have no ice at all. [Via Guardian Unlimited World Latest] During my kids' lifetimes. .< 2:54:21 PM >U.S. voters face long lineups to cast... Election officials reported long lineups as American voters began casting their ballots to decide who will be the next president of the United States, a race polls suggest is too close to call. [Via CBC News] This is good. The Republicans have got to be worried. .< 2:46:06 PM >1,000,000 copies of Eminem's Mosh served by archive.org Cory Doctorow: Eminem's poltical song "Mosh" has a get-out-the-vote video that's licensed for free Internet distribution, and is being distributed by Brewster Kahle at the Internet Archive as well as many other places. Brewster sez, "he Eminem Mosh video is using up 400Mb/sec of our bandwidth in the US and about 200Mb/sec in EU. This means we have distributed about 1 million copies of that video. this is a record for us, and since it is available from several other places, this is probably a record for the net."
(Thanks, Brewster!) Indeed! .< 10:55:48 AM >Police punches, harasses photographer documenting FL elections Xeni Jardin: In the Palm Beach Post:
A widely published investigative journalist was tackled, punched and arrested Sunday afternoon by a Palm Beach County sheriff's deputy who tried to confiscate his camera outside the elections supervisor's headquarters. About 600 people were standing in line waiting to vote early when James S. Henry was charged with disorderly conduct for taking photos of waiting voters about 3:30 p.m. outside the main elections office on Military Trail near West Palm Beach.Link (via politech) [Via Boing Boing] .< 10:46:40 AM >Earth shudders with quakes beneath the Pacific west of Vancouver Island (Canadian Press) Canadian Press - VANCOUVER (CP) - The earth moved underneath the Pacific Ocean west of Vancouver Island early Tuesday. [Via Yahoo! News - World] .< 10:44:59 AM >US extends troops' time in Iraq Pentagon extends the tours of duty in Iraq for thousands of soldiers, as a car bomb kills five in Baghdad. [Via BBC News | World | UK Edition] .< 10:12:24 AM >Iraq Oil Pipelines Hit by Biggest Attacks Yet BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Saboteurs have mounted the biggest attacks yet on Iraq's oil infrastructure, blowing up three pipelines in the north and hitting exports via Turkey, oil officials said Tuesday. [Via Reuters: World] .< 2:19:04 AM >Guardian Unlimited | US elections 2004 | This is not a vote about ideas. It comes down to the verdict of a divided nation on one man Over the past five weeks I have not met one person who had a passionate word to say about Mr Kerry one way or the other. Though I don't doubt that some exist, the Democrats I have encountered are primarily motivated by their hatred of Mr Bush. "If they put up a vacuum cleaner against Bush we'd vote for it and just ask them to change the bag every now and then," quipped Gene Lyons, a columnist for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. Republicans are adversely galvanised by their love of Bush. "He stepped up to the plate and showed the world what we can do," said Chris Paxos, at a job centre in Canton, Ohio. This is not an election about platforms or ideas. It has brought the issue of who owns America and what its values should be into stark relief. But it cannot answer them.
Today will be a referendum on one man - George Bush - and his record. Whoever wins will do so by a narrow margin and inherit a deeply divided nation. But, legal challenges notwithstanding, that will be tomorrow's story. And nobody is looking that far ahead. Here's hoping he isn't called upon to appoint another president. .< 2:05:00 AM >Australian in Guantanamo Says on Brink of Madness SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian terror suspect David Hicks, who has been held in Guantanamo Bay since 2001, says he is on the brink of madness because of his isolation and treatment. [Via Reuters: World] .< 12:43:25 AM >QuarkXPress 6.5 released Quark Inc. in mid-October announced QuarkXPress 6.5, a free update to their flagship desktop publishing software application. On Monday the company announced the new version's release. It is available for download from Quark's Web site now. [Via MacCentral] |
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