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In a curious campaign twist, voters from outside the United States have been blocked from the official Bush-Cheney 2004 website. Starting around midnight Monday (US time), visitors to www.georgewbush.com and its aliases, including www.bushcheney2004.com, have seen their access screened based on the geographical location of their IP address. Those outside the US have been [...]

From Stratfor’s daily Global Intelligence Briefing:

The Japanese rightly point to the fact that they have experienced very real — and very strong — growth in the past three years. But they shy away from mentioning that their government is still running massive budget deficits. For the 2004 fiscal year, the annual budget deficit hit a [...]

Courtesy of Yahoo

It’s time to show some financial support for the Spread Firefox campaign. After easily reaching their target of one million web browser downloads in ten days, the SF team would now like to place a full page ad in the New York Times announcing the release of Firefox 1.0.
To do this, the are looking [...]

George Bush has openly spoken of his desire to appoint more Supreme Court justices in the mould of Antonin Scalia. Ultra-conservative, deeply religious and, most importantly, in favour of overturning Roe v Wade, the landmark judgement which protects abortion as a constitutional right in the United States.
But there’s another, less well-known and more liberal [...]

“It’s 120kms return to Mount Eliza. We got a full tank of bananas, half a pack of Goo, it’s (nearly) dark and we’re wearing sunglasses! Hit it!”
And so began Sunday, 17 October, with nearly 9,000 cyclists braving the early morning darkness and chill for the annual Around the Bay in a Day. [...]

“We’re big believers in interoperability.”
Guess who? Linus Torvalds, Steve Jobs, Ghandi?
Nope, it’s Bill Gates.

Miranda Devine writes: “He might be 65 but John Howard understands how younger people are thinking,”.
Her evidence?
John Howard and his spamming sons partied with a former Big Brother winner until the ghastly hour of 2am.
<sarcasm>Well, I’m convinced.</sarcasm>
Update: It appears I’m not the only one sceptical of claims that John Howard is a modern-day Pied [...]

Jim Wallace, executive chairman of the Australian Christian Lobby, wrote an opinion piece in The Age yesterday claiming that the Christian vote had a large influence in the election. Apparently Labor’s election loss can be put down in a large part due to their “underestimat[ion] or just ignor[ance of] the awakening of this constituency”.
He [...]