Malaysia to ban divorce by SMS.

update: the above link has expired, but here is an other look at the same story:
SMS Divorce Raises Controversy In Malaysia

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Keeping Track of Money

Got a $20 bill with the words track this bill on line @ www.cdn-money.com. I filled in the request info and reward with the following info:

Date/Time of Hit	Location	Time Between Hit	Distance	Speed	Condition	Date Entered
28-Jul-2003 2:49 PM	Calgary, AB	105 days, 23 hours, 4 minutes	298 km	0.117 km/h	fine	28-Jul-2003
13-Apr-2003 3:45 PM	Sherwood Park, AB	52 days, 17 hours, 12 minutes	42.3 km	0.033 km/h	very good	13-Apr-2003
19-Feb-2003 9:33 PM	Morinville, AB	--	--	--	about uncirculated	19-Feb-2003
Totals:		158 days, 16 hours, 16 minutes	340 km

Now I've often wondered who had bills before me, now I have a partial picture. This just speaks to my inner geek.

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Unchained Melody - another of Richards creative visioning of scripture.

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A Scary thing I found…
from How To Rig An Election In The United States

Imagine for example if you could:

- secure control of the companies that make the voting machines and vote counting software;
- centralise vote counting systems, and politicise their supervision;
- legislate for the adoption of such systems throughout your domain, and provide large amounts of money for the purchase of these systems;
- establish systems of vote counting that effectively prevent anybody on the ground in the election – at a booth or precinct level - from seeing what is happening at a micro-level;
- get all the major media to sign up to a single exit-polling system that you also control – removing the risk of exit-polling showing up your shenanigans.

And imagine further that you;

- install a backdoor, or numerous backdoors, in the vote counting systems you have built that enable you to manipulate the tabulation of results in real time as they are coming in.

Now imagine someone already did it.

White House E-Mail System Becomes Less User-Friendly - as seen on useit.com.

The White house has introduced a new web based system for sending email to W. Now the old president@whitehouse.gov still works but ...

there is no guarantee it will be read or responded to

Nice double speak that. The new system has some interesting features including:

• Users get the chance to declare that they want to a) write a supporting comment or b) write a differing opinion
  
• Choose from a set of prefab subject lines like the Economy - Fire Act. As the NYT points out there is no category for Jobs/Unemployment.
  
• You need to be an American to send W. an email. State and zip are a required field. There is no country field. No pesky Canadians or Iraqies or anyone else need apply to send an email to W.
  

You can try the new Whitehouse Web Mail system for your self.

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One of my favorite shows at Cornerstone 2003 was put on by Robert Randolph and the Family Band. They do what is known as sacred steel. Their c-stone interview describes at as "the soulful sound of the electric lap-steel guitar" Yound Robert adds "a freshness and youthful verve to the genre".

For just pure emotion and energy this band was the top of my week at c-stone. And I wasn't alone - Jeff C., reported to be a member of the elite but elusive band Hip By Proxy, called the set "amazing!".

You can down load live recordings (mp3 format) from their site, or check out their on-line sampler. I'd say the music on the sampler is closer to what we heard at c-stone. The mp3s seem to be of a bit more compressed bit stream, but are well worth the time.

The only draw back for me is that Robert doesn't go much in the way of lyrical depth. But that's not the point, Sacred Steel as done by Rober Randolph is all about the emotion. Enjoy.

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I've created a new site/blog. The Friends of Cornerstone. It's a list of all the sites/blogs that I know have some connection to c-stone. It of course includes all the folks who stated a blog as a result of my seminar on blogging. Will update it as I find/hear about new c-stone related sites.

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From the You want to call it what? dept.
powergenitalia.com - a company called PowerGen has an Itallian subsidiary so .....

Thanks to Jordon for pointing that out.