Archive for November, 2004
Ben Goodger announces on his Inside Firefox blog that Firefox 1.0 Release Candidate #2 builds are available now:
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By category: Current Events.
There are lots of reasons to be confident — cell phone voters trending for Kerry; early voters trending for Kerry; actual polls trending for Kerry; the suggestion that die-hard right-wingers are more organized, and therefore have been registered to vote for quite a few years, which would slant the huge number of newly registered votes to Kerry — but this line of thinking from a Slate piece this morning in both new to me and perfectly reasonable sounding:
The voters who are waiting in line for 2 1/2 hours to vote … aren’t doing that to register their support for “more of the same”
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The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.
Abraham Lincoln
The average man votes below himself; he votes with half a mind or a hundredth part of one. A man ought to vote with the whole of himself, as he worships or gets married. A man ought to vote with his head and heart, his soul and stomach, his eye for faces and his ear for music; also (when sufficiently provoked) with his hands and feet. If he has ever seen a fine sunset, the crimson colour of it should creep into his vote…The question is not so much whether only a minority of the electorate votes. The point is that only a minority of the voter votes.
G. K. Chesterton
My friend Hillman points us to his latest documentary, of designer Paula Scher for AdobeStudio. You can find it in the Showcase at AdobeStudio.
If you missed the first one - on Stefan Sagmeister - it archived on Hillman’s site.
I like seeing video online. Our culture is largely video based, yet it hasn’t really blossomed online yet. As long as Hillman has a camera, I know we’re in good hands. Keep watching.
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