McGill's done some seriously amazing work on the medical front.

Of course, they've got some things to make up for too. (See: CIA brainwashing experiments.)

I love this quote from Roger Ebert:

I was told photos of me in this condition would attract the gossip papers. So what? I have been very sick, am getting better and this is how it looks. I still have my brain and my typing fingers.

Good for him.

Good for McGill as well!

Bah. I am suffering from scandal-fatigue big-time. Can anyone tell me what this means? I just don't have the energy to dig into this at the moment....

"Netcraft is showing that an event happened in the Ohio 2004 election that is difficult to explain. The Secretary of State's website, which handles election reporting, normally is directed to an Ohio-based IP address hosted by the Ohio Supercomputer Center. On Nov. 3 2004, Netcraft shows the website pointing out of state to a server owned by Smartech Corp. According to the American Registry on Internet Numbers, Smartech's block of IP addresses 64.203.96.0 – 64.203.111.255 encompasses the entire range of addresses owned by the Republican National Committee. Smartech hosted the recently notorious gbw43.com domain used from the White House in apparent violation of the Presidential Records Act, from which thousands of White House emails vanished. Can anyone suggest a good explanations for this seemingly dubious election-eve transfer?"

So what - DNS rerouted all requests for the Ohio Secretary of State's website to RNC servers? (requiring the RNC servers to spoof the OSoS servers) or the Ohio Secretary of State's website directed some/all of its traffic (e.g. database requests) to those RNC servers?

The obvious implication is that this was part of a Republican plan to steal the election in Ohio - but how? This is just the higher-level reporting, right? - would nefarious stuff have to be going on at a lower level too?

My brain hurts</D. P. Gumby>

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I was told photos of me in this condition would attract the gossip papers

I read about it on Lainey Gossip, and she's a terrible old bitch who got allergic herself.

Power to him.

Was just poking around at Lillian pictures when I should have been sleeping. Curse those eyes. Curse them.

Oh yeah, it was all over the news this morning about Ebert. Good for him.

Ebert makes me laugh, over a horrid disease. He's great. Didn't the show used to be on PBS? Maybe not, but I remember watching it with my dad.

80!

OK, things don't sound as bad as I first thought:

Nothing "changed" or was "transferred". [link] [state.oh.us] is a special web site in operation for elections. Otherwise, it points to [link] [state.oh.us] as it does now. It appears that the State of Ohio contracted with SmartTech for hosting, processing, and dissemination of the election results via the special elections web site, when it is in operation.

That probably won't be a good enough answer for people, though. Regardless, it appears that SmartTech has obvious ties to the Republican Party, and hosts many sites for various Republican political interests. The Secretary of State of Ohio is a partisan political position. This doesn't mean there aren't questions that can be raised or points to be debated.

I didn't even scroll down far enough. From the same McGill newsletter:

Genetic find could lead to improved Alzheimer's drugs

Researchers at McGill have successfully altered a gene that regulates the switch from short- to long-term memory in mice.

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If Diebold's connections to the Republican Party aren't enough to raise alarms, I doubt this will.

If Diebold's connections to the Republican Party aren't enough to raise alarms, I doubt this will.

Like the President of Diebold nearly French kissing the Ohio Secretary of State and promising to deliver Ohio to the GOP wrapped in a bow?

::yawn::

/jaded Buckeye