Back in January, KCFR was going on and on about how they were going to move their NPR/etc. service back in the spring to the FM band -- which filled me with much glee. Then ..

... nothing. No more announcements. No commercials or boasts. Silence on the subject. I began to wonder if the deal fell through, or the FCC turned them down, or what.

A bit of digging, though, and it looks like the schedule is now July to shift from 1340 AM to 90.1 FM. Yay.

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Here.

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1. Shamos: Why e-voting paper trails are a bad idea | The Iconoclast - politics, law, and technology - CNET News.com - Are e-voting paper trails actually useful, or desirable? I think what the whole e-voting thang has raised is how secure (or insecure) our voting process is, and what risks we need to take (and which we need to work on reducing).
2. When the Ex Blogs, the Dirtiest Laundry Is Aired - New York Times - I don't know if it's a good thing, or a bad thing, that my divorce from Cheryl was in pre-blogging days.
3. The Superman/Aquaman Hour of Adventure DVD news: Announcement for DC Super Heroes: The Filmation Adventures | TVShowsOnDVD.com - This makes me sooooooo happy! The SAHoA was dearly beloved by me as a child -- esp. for all the non-Superman/Aquaman bits, which is what this DVD set will collect. Glee!
4. BMWSportTouring Forums: Space Shuttle Processing: Rarely seen by the general public - How to assemble a space shuttle for lauch. Cool. (via GeekPress)
5. The Art of the Title Sequence - This looks like an extraordinarily cool site, looking at TV/movie title sequence. Pretty. (via kottke)

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... but Internet connectivity has been ... dicey.

1. Wedding was appropriately and not-unexpectedly faboo. Best Man speech went, I am told, fine. Lovely bride, handsome groom, cute Kaylee, pretty church, nice country club, yummy food, good champagne, fantastic band, all's right with the world.  Pictures and text to follow at some future moment.

2. Down in NYC now at the Belleclaire Hotel, uptown west. 

3. Went to see Avenue Q this afternoon, which was both great fun in its own right and even more fun based on What Happened Next.

4. My Blackberry has locked up beyond my ability to fix it, which is intensely frustrating on multiple levels, not least of which is that I can't post pictures on-the-fly to the blog, making it seem like I've dropped off the face of the Earth. Ugh. And, also, Rrg.

5. Lovely dinner with Margie tonight, both in terms of good food (at Isabella's), and in terms of excellent company (Margie).

More as I get the chance, the inclination, and the connectivity.

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Okay, a cheap joke, but no matter how one feels about Charlton Heston being the NRA leader/patriarch over the past decade or so, he did some fine, memorable acting work. Famously a bit overwrought at times -- William Shatner with actual talent, you might say -- but still memorable. Moses, Judah Ben-Hur, El Cid, Michelangelo, even  George Taylor, Robert Neville, Robert Thorn, or the Cardinal Richelieu ... he brought a majesty and gravitas to anything he did. 

And his style was always eminently quotable. 

RIP.

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I can't believe March is over. Yeesh.

1. Wiki Woman - An article on the Wikipedia wars on both Obama and Clinton's pages.
2. Most Awesomely Bad Military Patches 10 | Danger Room from Wired.com - Tenth in a series of stunningly improper / un-PC / goofy "morale patches" for various military organizations. This page has a list of the previous entries. I don't know whether to be appalled or to giggle or both.
3. Triviagasm: Far Out SciFi Worlds of Sid and Marty Krofft - I loved the Kroft stuff as a kid. Well, some of them. I was a big Bugaloos fan and Lidsville follower, And, of course, Land of the Lost rocked. Most of the others, though, I never got into.
4. Writing for Firefly and Battlestar - From the only person who did both, Jane Espenson.
5. Exchange: HBO's 'John Adams' (Parts 1 and 2) - A discussion between historians about the mini-series. I'm going to revisit this once I've read the whole thing.
6. Commentary: Inside the Twisted Mind of the Security Professional - A Bruce Schneier discussion of how security professionals see things differently -- and why maybe we should (sometimes) do the same.
7. Pulp of the Day - A pulp magazine cover a day -- complete with caption contest. Cool.

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Time once again to clean out those browser tabs ...

1. When is dead dead? Not a trivial question when you're talking about organ donations.
2. The Toilet Sign Project. There are some pretty clever ones here.
3. The worst foods in America. I've eaten ... well, one of these (the Cinnabon).
4. One of those stealth patent infringement suits may have Sony's Blu-ray in its sights.
5. Not exactly how you'd expect a stingray to kill someone.
6. For all I've bitched about Microsoft not adhering to web standards ... its moves toward doing so will likely cause more problems. (More)

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So we watch a very limited number of TV channels at home. Whilst watching some others at some point traveling in the past few weeks, I ran across this Mountain Dew ad, which, for some reason, just struck me as hilarious.

I decided I'd show it to Margie (both because it was funny, and was a great misuse of statistics (which she'd find even funnier). I looked around on YouTube and thought I'd found it. And I did, but ... with an odd difference.

Both have their funny -- I'm just ... bemused/curious as to the difference between the YouTube version and what's on the air (and on the Mountain Dew site).

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The battle between the "inclusionists" and the "deletionists" rages on.

Inclusionists believe that the disparity between Pokémon and Solidarity biographies would disappear by itself, if only Wikipedia loosened its relatively tight editorial control and allowed anyone to add articles about almost anything. They argue that since Wikipedia exists online, it should not have the space constraints of a physical encyclopedia imposed upon it artificially. (“Wikipedia is not paper”, runs one slogan of the inclusionists.)

Surely there is no harm, they argue, in including articles about characters from television programmes who only appear in a single episode, say? After all, since most people access Wikipedia pages via search, the inclusion of articles on niche topics will not inconvenience them. People will not be more inclined to create entries about Polish union leaders if the number of Pokémon entries is reduced from 500 to 200. The ideal Wikipedia of the inclusionists would feature as many articles on as many subjects as its contributors were able to produce, as long as they were of interest to more than just a few users.

Deletionists believe that Wikipedia will be more successful if it maintains a certain relevance and quality threshold for its entries. So their ideal Wikipedia might contain biographies of the five most important leaders of Solidarity, say, and the five most important Pokémon characters, but any more than that would dilute Wikipedia's quality and compromise the brand. The presence of so many articles on trivial subjects, they argue, makes it less likely that Wikipedia will be taken seriously, so articles dealing with trivial subjects should be deleted.

In my opinion (and, to be fair, I'm a trivial sort of guy), if people want to post about it, it should be there. The biggest barrier to "legitimacy" for Wikipedia is not that it has articles about Pokemon critters, but that some people will never grant such status to anything that is not generated by "professionals."

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