November 12, 2004
Penguin Day
I have some news for all of you tech geeks who moved Canada because of the U.S. election outcome. It’s still a little early to pull out the ice fishing tackle so why not spend next weekend changing the world instead?
Penguin Day, a day-long conference for activists and socially conscious software developers kicks off Saturday, November 20th 2004, in Toronto. At local Penguin Days non-profit organizations explore the range of issues and options involved using Free and Open Source Software (F/OSS).
Other great/upcoming conferences of interest include the E-Voter Institute Research Roundtable, November 30, 2004, at Four Seasons Hotel in Washington, D.C., and the Institute for Politics, Democracy & the Internet 12th annual Politics Online Conference, March 10 - 11, 2005, at George Washington University.
And to set you in the right mood for the weekend - Here’s a little something from Ask Dogbert, passed on by contributing editor Bob Pyke.
Dear Dogbert,
How can I decide for whom to vote?
Dan
Dear Bedpan,
Highly intelligent and well-informed people disagree on every political issue. Therefore, intelligence and knowledge are useless for making decisions, because if any of that stuff helped, then all the smart people would have the same opinions.
So use your "gut instinct" to make voting choices. That is exactly like being clueless, but with the added advantage that you’ll feel as if your random vote preserved democracy.
Sincerely,
Dogbert
Dear Dogbert,
Lots of people write blogs, but I’ve never heard of anyone who actually reads them. What’s up with that?
Kurt
Dear Skirt,
Blogs exist to fill the important market niche of writing that is so dull that your eyes will burrow out of the back of your head to escape. People do read blogs, usually by accident, sometimes on a dare, but those readers are later mistaken for Mafia victims with what appears to be two holes in the back of their heads. On closer inspection, you might find their eyeballs clinging to the drapes directly behind them. Unless the cat gets them first.
Sincerely,
Dogbert
Posted by Buzz Webster at November 12, 2004 12:40 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
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