Today is the first broadcast day for Air America, a new radio network with a radical concept: Instead of loudmouth right-wingers commanding the airwaves, let's showcase some loudmouth leftists! I can only welcome this. They only have a few broadcast stations now, but there will be a live internet feed as well, which means even us overseas people will be able to listen to the likes of Al Franken and Janeane Garafalo skewering the Bush administration, etc.
Hooray!
You have an unusal equipment for success, use it propery.
I wouldn't mention this if not for the fact that the short sentence contains two misspellings. Perhaps the ability to correctly spell words is my "unusal" equipment. I just hope I'm using it "propery" now!
It looks like some congressmen are taking seriously the threat to American democracy that is posed by non-voter-verifiable electronic voting machines! The Verified Voting campaign backs a bill, soon coming up before congress, that will require electronic voting machines to be retrofitted with a voter-verifiable paper system by November of this year! Now might be a good time to go there, and write or call your congressman to promote this important legislation!
I wrote a while ago about the problems inherent in the various electronic voting systems being implemented throughout America. One of the main problems is the lack of a printed record, which would allow people to see and verifty that their vote was counted correctly, as well as allow for recounts in case of close results.
Manufacturers like Diebold have been strangely reluctant to include vote-printing options in their machines. At first they claimed technical incompetence (apparently, attaching a printer to a computer is a daunting task for Diebold), and then when they finally conceded that this technical miracle was possible, they put exorbitant prices on the printer add-ons.
Now comes the big surprise: As Robert X. Cringely describes in his column, the Diebold machines already have printers! The internal printers are required by law for end-of-day vote tallies at least. Modifying the systems to create user-verifiable printed records would require simple changes to the software, and minor enhancements to the computers' casings to allow the printed receipts to be seen.
Fortunately for Diebold, the major media are still ignoring this story. Blah.
This is perhaps not a "word" in some sense, but rather a proper name of a store I've seen in Stockholm and an associated brand. I propose that the word "pukeberg" in English should be used to described the splatters of frozen vomit that can often be found on sidewalks near nightclub entrances in cold climates (e.g. Sweden).
Not particularly new, but this hilarious audio cut-up of America's greatest gas-bag has him hurling his venom at himself for a change. Incredibly funny for Limbaugh haters and lovers alike. I bet Rush would even like it himself, especially when he's all hopped-up on goofballs.
Today's funny Swedish word is fart. This means "movement" or "speed". Fortunately for English-based humorists, this is used to build lots and lots of compound words seen in road signs, shop windows, etc. Stay tuned.
Holy smokes, it's been almost a month since I last posted! Well, hey, I've been busy, traveling, sick, etc. And I missed the bus. And my dog ate my homework.
Although it seems like the name of a device to help prevent you from passing gas, a farthinder is actually what we call a speed bump in English.
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