Kim Flournoy

I thought that San Francisco’s paper ballots were kind of archaic when we first moved here, but now they’re reassuring in a way. The malfeasance that can arise is mostly the traditional kind (like throwing out the ballots).

Here’s a funny illustration of what can go wrong with electronic voting (thanks Lary!) - Homer tries to vote for Obama:

Even though I haven’t posted a single word to a blog for more than two years, that doesn’t mean that time elapsed without my finding stories that were interesting, touching, and/or amusing. As I intended to resume blogging at any moment, I bookmarked these items in a “to blog” folder.

Of course, now that I’m back in the saddle, I’m beginning to mine that folder for content. I’ll probably toss more than half of what’s in there, often because the article is outdated or irrelevant (OMG, Johnny Depp and Tim Burton are remaking “Sweeney Todd”!), but sometimes because it’s difficult for me to get up the energy or outrage to discuss something that really had me fired up 18 months ago (the HPV vaccine debates). But many items are (hopefully) timeless.

Anyway, in case you notice that I’m suddenly posting a bunch of articles from 2006-2007, this is why. To start, some of my favorite XKCD comics from that period:

RTFM
Organic Fuel
Online Package Tracking
Cat Proximity

Love this “No on 8″ video (starring Maggie!)

Full set: Star Trek Inspirational Posters

Another Emmy moment:

As a side note: The Emmy folks are taking their sweet time getting these things online. I mean really, it’s more than a day after the awards, and their YouTube page doesn’t have any new information. By next week, no one will care (or more likely, everyone will have already viewed unofficial videos like the one above).

I’m sure all the Emmy folks went out after the awards, got drunk, and partied like rock stars. But couldn’t they outsource this stuff to some video editors? It’s not that difficult to just slice up some preexisting content and upload it - again, see the unofficial videos already online.

I have no interest in awards shows, but I’ll watch just about anything to do with Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart, or Ricky Gervais (which is how I got suckered into renting the horribly disappointing “A Night at the Museum”), and about 50% of anything Steve Carell is in. So naturally I’m loving this multi-year Emmy joke:

Craig Ferguson on Citizenship: “Are we so lost that we have to be sold on our own democratic right? What is going on?” (thanks to Andreina)