Thursday, 4 March, 2004

Forget politics, when does spring training start? The Washington Post had two articles in last Sundays outlook section I wanted to point to. By Chris Mooney Beware of Sound Science. Sound Science is a catch phrase in the administration to refer to the Peer Review initiative I referred to a couple of posts ago and other science advisory board policies. The underlying purpose of these is to yoke the functioning of the entire federal government to the political purposes of the president. This might seem matter-of-course but it is a more drastic intrusion of politics into formerly objective, autonomous, and distributed government functioning than previous. A second article, by Bernard Ries, you can't duck this conflict, Mr Justice looks at Energy Task Forces Appeals case from the perspective of a former NLRB judge. Voting in the Primary yesterday certainly was anticlimatic. There were very few people around the polling place, but I got to spend several minutes chatting with a very nice (and cute) pollster after completing her survey. She was with Zogby. While we were talking another man she had been talking to earlier left, and she said he was a rep from the voting machine company. We were using Diebold Machines in PG County. I have to say they do rate highly in ease of use. It's in the realm of security that issues arise. She hadn't heard anything about Diebold so I got to tell her about that. She seemed very surprised. I got a little sticker that said "yo votes" as I left Drilling through Ars Technica and CNN to the Pew internet and American Life project site I read through an interesting survey they just released on Content Creation Online 17% of those online have posted written material to the internet, but only 6% have posted artwork, and only 2% maintain web logs (or web blogs as the Pew torturously refers to them). 12:52:09 AM    comment [];trackback [];

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