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…back again…
Osama’s back.
Tell a friend.

[Every once in a while, we bring you a guest post from one or another of the Friends of the Zone. In this case, today’s guest is our good friend Shadur, who stumbled across an article on e-vote systems submitting only some of their code to the National Software Reference Library, and decides to […]

Slashdot is carrying the story that Cassini radar images of Titan show the moon to be much smoother than expected.
The data show a variation in height of only about 150 meters (490 feet) over the 400-kilometer-long (250-mile-long) track
I wonder if Titan has an ocean of some sort.

Via Kevin Drum over at Political Animal, we get this nice little tidbit of Shrub’s latest attempt to both explain away Al Qaqaa and smear Sen. Kerry…
A political candidate who jumps to conclusions without knowing the facts is not who you want as commander in chief.
Sometimes Shrub just nails it. Ladies and gentlemen, reason […]

The BBC has an article on the GOP’s Florida election activities; intercepted documents and at least one eyewitness report indicate that hundreds of voters in traditionally black and Democratic areas of Jacksonville alone have had their names collected in preparation for a mass voter challenge operation, which is already underway at Florida’s early voting stations. […]

Editor and Publish has a good article about how Kerry is beating Bush in editorial endorsements 112-69 by number of individual papers or 14,400,000 to 8,600,000 in circulation size. More telling is that Kerry has earned the endorsement of 28 newspapers which endorsed Bush in 2000, which Bush has only earned the endorsements of two […]

Several of the Zoners and their friends, in various states, have signed up to be pollwatchers, voter assistants, or volunteers in similar positions in various states throughout the country. Though we each have different job descriptions, and some of our jobs are nonpartisan, we all have the same purpose: try to get as many […]

Over at Daily Kos, Meteor Blades (who sounds like an artifact from a Final Fantasy game) has a rundown of Porter Goss’s recent acts of partisanship. Key quotes:
[on the Sep11 commission, Goss was] giving clear priority to providing political protection for the president… completely absent from the committee’s report was any mention of the President’s […]

The Program on International Policy Attitudes has released another poll showing the divergence in beliefs about facts relevant to the US’s future between Bush and Kerry supporters (warning: PDF). For instance, 48:7% of Bush:Kerry supporters believe the economy has gotten better in the past year, while 20:70% believe it’s gotten worse. For the record, you […]

Speaking of election campaigns which should be followed..
I’ll have more on this later, after getting a bit of research on the race done. The short version is that the election in Ukraine has Significance extending beyond its own borders, and we might all do well to see what comes of it.