election day (and the usual geekery)
I just finished a big pile of note writing, so I’m going to take 5 and write a blog entry. It’s election day, and I realised when talking to Elle last night that you don’t really know who is going to be on the ballot until you get to the polling station. I mean sure they publish the list somewhere, but wouldn’t it be nice to have all of the information that you needed before hand and didn’t have to seek out the candidates policies, taking up your time.
What I’m thinking is some kind of website (yeah, I’m a geek, I get that), which is a cross between an information resource; letting MPs/MSPs/councelors put up their manifestos and details, and the other half being a kind of “rate my MP” section, letting people give some feedback on what their representatives had done and how they had done it. It’s interesting that this hasn’t been done before. Of course there is They Work for You which I am a big fan of but it’s not quite what I’m thinking of.
In other (more geeky) news there has been a massive storm across the blogosphere about a certain number, which is the crux of the anti-copying part of HD-DVDs. BoingBoing has some excellent coverage about how the digg community saw to is that the number was distributed. Also, Wired has a nice Photoshop piece.
This is more for me so that I remember but there is a really cool project/dissertation LaTeX template at the Cambridge engineering department. Amaury gave me the link, I just don’t want to lose it!
Finally, an entry by me wouldn’t be right without some linkage: ASCIIMaps- Google Maps in ASCII! GeekTool is a nice program to display things just on top of your wallpaper in OSX.
Back to work!
