What is the URL to be blocked so I can add it to my own site's block list?

convenience is not the highest design goal for this particular purpose - accuracy and resistance to subversion are more important. Given only ~50% of eligible voters bother to vote, I still think convenience is a main goal of getting more people to vote. I know it's easy to look stuff up ahead of time and there are advantages of voting at a location, but both of those things take significant planning and time, and I know most people are too busy to spend a couple hours doing research weeks ahead of an election and many have trouble taking time off work to hit the polling place. In Oregon, I've never actually mailed my ballot in using the postal service, you can drop them in special ballot boxes curbside at the county courthouse, or walk them into the elections office itself within the county courthouse and I've always done either of those.

I showed this to Anil the other day and he said it was terrible and turned it off after 30 seconds. I couldn't believe it. It's GENIUS.

it's odd that you want free health care I don't consider it "free" since everyone is still paying federal, state, and local taxes. then go on to say no taxes for internet purchases I only mentioned it because up until now, we've never had federal sales taxes on stuff like amazon purchases, and it's allowed amazon to get pretty popular and I saw no reason to reverse that trend. Local/state sales tax is fine on purchases.

I don't think internet connections should be provided by the gov't (I think everyone has "socialist!" on the brain lately thanks to McCain). I mean there should be broadband available to every American home just as electricity brought us out of the dark ages and move people from working on farms to working in modern industry. You can do that by providing tax incentives or investments or no-interest loans so that telecoms and local utilities can build the infrastructure that is currently too far and/or too expensive to connect. There's a very small rural town about 40 miles south of me. It's about two hours from any major town, in the middle of nowhere and I've always wondered how people can live there since there seems to be no major employer beyond a tiny college campus. It turns out aside from farming and the college, the tiny town banded together and became a co-op telecom themselves and had fiber optic connections to every home almost five years ago, when it was unheard of in other parts of the entire state (most of Portland doesn't have fiber optic available, it's only out in the suburbs). People in that town can live in the middle of nowhere and run online businesses and stay connected with the rest of their family and the world. Jason Fried's story also reminded me that it'd be nice if the federal gov't made it a mandate and provided incentives to get the rest of the country on broadband, because it'd help us move into the next phase of industry and economic development.

Universal broadband, universal health care... why not universal cars? Why should some people cars while others don't? How about universal housing? Couple things. One, I never said universal broadband, I said broadband available everywhere in America so we can be a stronger nation. Remember the highway system post-WWII? Or how about getting electricity everywhere instead of just big cities? Like that, and I mentioned I was fully expecting to pay for it. The universal cars and housing are both stupid strawmen you made up so I'm not going to bother refuting them.

pb: ditto on the privacy, I forgot to put that in. tiffany: I hear ya on the property tax thing. I will forever think of Palo Alto, CA and East Palo Alto, CA with regards to this issue. On one side you have Stanford and the most expensive homes in the area with the best schools but across the freeway to the east you have a completely different story and they are literally right next to each other. Liza: that used to be my answer at tech conferences "I'm married and that's how I have healthcare and it really helps if your partner has a stable normal job with benefits if you freelance" Meg: yep, I think we need to aim high and give ourselves a few years to get there. I'd like to see every car company forced to have a system-wide 30-40mpg average, so they could accommodate a large construction truck in their lineup that would get offset by a subcompact.

Ah, I was mostly thinking about how American cars and definitely electronics and clothing seem to have been gone from the US for a long time.

That is the best 1yr old costume ever ever ever.

Wordpress was really annoying to use for the past six months or so. With the advent of the 2.5 release, they redesigned the posting UI which removed the above-the-fold long listing of my categories, moving it below entry boxes, below-the-fold into a 1/4 height box that required scrolling to find my categories. The app up until that point was geared towards easily managing and using a ton of categories in your posts. They decided to redesign it to instead focus on tags, which I never used in the previous two years so I felt it was a definite turn for the worse. Additionally, I was constantly annoyed by the big yellow banner across the top scolding me to update my wordpress install. It seemed whenever I finally had some free time and broke down to update it, the next week some more major security exploits would come out and the yellow banner would return. Blogging is supposed to be fun, and the software should reflect that. For me, Wordpress became harder to use and annoying in the way it was constantly needing to be updated, which is why I left. I like Typepad much better and thank god I'll never have to update the stupid CMS myself ever again.

Tommy, the flips are great, but for TV production you'll probably want the $180 Kodak HD cameras that are a similar size and operation. May, yeah, this was a great course, on the grounds of a giant farm next to a big river, so we had lots of roads and green-covered paths that became part of the course.

Thanks!

I'm wondering if more accountability could be achieved through tools that tracked all your comments across blogs, for both making comments feel more valuable by being easy to read and share with people that follow you (I left five comments today on four different sites, go check them out!) and maybe another benefit would be that maybe people would feel they had a reputation to uphold and apply some social pressure to not be an asshole? (I used typekey so we should get some extra good food)

Yay! Great to see you back.

We've had birthday parties with no gifts for our daughter, and everyone seems to think that's fine. She's 2 and barely gets the concept of free gifts, and much prefers eating cupcakes with half a dozen friends. Asking parents to donate to a charity seems like too much, especially given that among my daughter's friends and their parents, the politics among all of them would make picking a single worthy charity that no one could find fault with almost impossible.

Install TiVotool. It should be able to read .tivo files in iTunes http://tivotool.com/screenshots/screenshots.html

The only way to speed things up is using a wired ethernet adapter that is usb 2.0 (newer tivo boxes can do 2.0). But then still on a 100Mb wired network, the fastest transfers I've heard are about 2-3x the real-time transfer rate. So it's still slow.

I'd start the "I actually *liked* Spanglish" fan club, if there would ever be another member beyond me.

After a recent move, I found myself in the same boat. I am shooting for no longer owning or displaying any computer books in my home office. If I really needed to know something from a 1999 javascript book, I'm sure Google has a better answer than the dead trees crowding my shelf.

I'm using FF 1.5 alpha 1, maybe it's a new feature they snunk in.

Are you actually making favicons for every image on your photo blog? I just noticed when looking at a few of the large images, the favicon matched. I've never seen that before, how'd you do it?

woo hoo! 37BetterMotors inches one step closer to reality. http://37signals.com/better_motors.php

You didn't use a calculator?

10/10! Anil would be proud that I've taken to using excel instead of a calculator. http://www.flickr.com/photos/mathowie/38378852/

I thought the original broadcast had Ronald Reagan as the host? (and I would have guessed 60 minutes)