Brian Jepson’s Weblog

I’ve been playing around with my XO laptop (you can read all about it over at hackszine) and it’s an extremely cool, super-hackable device. You should order one. The price is right: for $400, you:

• Donate a laptop to a child
• Get one of your own
• Get a $200 tax deduction
• Get one free year of T-Mobile Hotspot

Also, Tom Hoffman and I are organizing an XO Laptop meetup in RI. Check out the thread here and reply if you’re interested. We may wait a few weeks, since it could take a while for people to get their orders.

Can this be for real? The BBC is
reporting that the Bush campaign has compiled “a 15-page so-called
‘caging list’ [that] lists 1,886 names and addresses of voters in
predominantly black and traditionally Democrat areas of Jacksonville,
Florida”, apparently for the purposes of challenging these folks as they
vote.

These messages appear to have leaked via GeorgeWBush.org’s
(NOT the Bush campaign) dead letter office, a collection of messages
that arrived in their “catch-all mailbox.

(via vowe dot net).

I’m much less worried about an independent Nader than I am a Green
Nader. Nader + the Green Party offered the possibility that the Green
Party could grow substantially–that was the payoff, at least in theory.
He’s not offering that this time around.

Mark Frauenfelder: Why can’t Homeland Security tell the difference between Al Quaeda and my six-year-old daughter?

Werner
Vogels: “And now for something completely different: The Social
Issues Research Center in Oxford, UK has released an absolutely
marvelous online guide to British pub etiquette…”

Volker Weber has the
link… Probably work safe, as long as you don’t crank the volume up to
eleven.

Tim
Bray points to a
thread on SkyScraper City with a whole mess of transit maps. I
first noticed SkyScraper City in my referer logs a while back when one
of their threads linked to one of the pictures
from my Singapore trip.

The
Globe and Mail: “People in Singapore will soon be allowed to buy
long-banned chewing gum - but only from pharmacies…”