The best election Web site I found last night was Voter.com. Their page loaded fast all night, and their coverage is detailed and easy to follow. CNN’s site was very slow (due to its great popularity, I’m sure), and the results were harder to get to. The pulldown menu of state results at Voter.com was incredibly useful.
Eazel has announced the first two services they’ll be providing. I’m underwhelmed.
I recently bought a new toy: a Microsoft Intellimouse Optical. I have issues with Microsoft’s software, not their hardware. I immediately ditched my mouse mat and the fifty cent OEM mouse that came with my computer, and I’m much happier. It’s really a very nice input device, and I never have to open my mouse and clean out a bunch of gunk again.
The controversy over Florida’s still unassigned electoral votes and the overall closeness of the current Presidential election has led to ceaseless comparisons to the 1960 Presidential elections in which Kennedy beat Nixon by less than 100,000 votes. Over at TomPaine.com, Slate’s David Greenberg provides a detailed refresher on the controversial 1960 election, which the Republicans claimed (with some merit) that Kennedy stole.
The cheating bastards at ICANN amended their bylaws so that the new board members (elected by the at-large ICANN membership) can’t vote on the new TLDs.