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Primus Telecom today announced the release of their new high-speed ADSL broadband plans. Up to four times faster than the current maximum speed, the plans are priced extremely competitively: $29.95 per month for the 400MB plan and $49.95 per month for 12GB. Speeds range from a minimum of 2Mb/s to a maximum of [...]

Elyse Butler of the Brooks Institute of Photography documents backstage life in the porn industry. The photo series isn’t pornographic but it’s not completely work safe either.

With the final release of Firefox 1.0, it’s time to talk about some of the options available for increasing web browsing performance. Firefox makes a number of configuration options available via menus but the majority are hidden away from immediate view. Typing “about:config” in to the address bar will list them all and allow [...]

Today marks the release of Fedora Core 3, the latest of the Fedora community Linux distributions. Downloads are available from the Fedora mirrors or via a Torrrent.
Fedora Core 3 includes the 2.6.9 kernel, Firefox 1PR, GNOME 2.8, KDE 3.3, Thunderbird 0.8, and Ximinan Evolution 2.
One warning - the default GNOME installation seems to be [...]

Map of United States counties by election results with Republican victories marked in red and Democratic in blue.

Population density of the United States

Combined Republican and Democrat results.

Cartogram of state results weighted by electoral college votes.
Maps and commentary at Crooked Timber.

“Moral values” led the economy 22%-20% as the most important election issue. Bush won 80% (Kerry 18%) of “moral voters” while support from “economic voters” was an exact mirror (Kerry 80% - Bush 18%).
Terrorism ran third (19%) in voter’s minds; those who believed it was a top issue voted strongly for Bush.
Iraq placed fourth (15%), [...]

“America has spoken and I’m humbled by the trust and the confidence of my fellow citizens,” — George W Bush, November 2, 2004

Recent trading on the presidential election at Tradesports shows a massive swing towards Kerry, likely reflecting encouraging results from leaked exit polls.
I’ve just registered and tried to place an order to buy Bush wins. Not because I think he’ll win, but because I can’t resist the current price of 25 (3-1 odds). Unfortunately, [...]

For hardcore election watchers, the Australian Federal election had The Virtual Tally room. The closest US equivalent that I’ve found is CNN’s election results page.
Update:
Yahoo! and C-SPAN also have good coverage.

With all the excitement over the US presidential election, it’s easy to forget other American countries also exist - and have elections. Overnight from Uruguay comes the news that socialist Tabare Vazquez has won the presidential election by more than 16% from his nearest rival. It’s the first time Uruguay has ever elected a [...]