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Today is Sweetmorn, day 41 in the season of Chaos, 3270.

I present a serving of link snausage:

I can't get there (obviously), but according to Side-Line, "we can now confirm that Front 242 will indeed be the surprise act for the upcoming Male Or Female show in Aarschot (BE) at CC Gasthuis this Friday the 13th. The band will play in its original line-up adding Dirk Bergen who was an original member of the band in its early days. The show will constitute of a 30 minute set bringing material from the "Geography" CD that is to see a re-release through the belgian label Alfa Matrix (www.alfa-matrix.com) on March 26th."

Usability experts throw down. Oh. My. God. Funniest thing ever. (Okay, for a certain segment of the population. If you're scratching your head and wondering what crack I'm on, that's okay. Just trust me, it's funny. ;) ) Snoop Toggy Tog. *snort* And this one caused a lot of cackling too, as someone who's tried to work with Notes and Domino in the past. And a Penny Arcade crossover, woo! OK/Cancel is going right up on my list of web comics I have to read.

jadasc points out Chez Goth, whee!

The original "Star Wars" trilogy is coming to DVD finally, as a four-disc box set. Planned release is the end of September.

For the news junkies (tafkar? ;) ): Today's Front Pages, from the Newseum.

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[I started writing this at 7:45, then Stuff Happened and I'm just getting around to posting it.]

I didn't get to go vote this evening; I'd intended to go on my way home from work, but then again with the Stuff Happened that needed to be dealt with, so I ended up not leaving the office until well after I would've been able to make it back to my polling location. Even at 6 PM I still hadn't quite made up my mind who I was going to vote for.

I know I have several friends who are die-hard Dean supporters, and I wanted to be able to get really excited about him...but frankly I don't think that even if he were likely to get the nomination that he'd have a chance in hell of beating Bush in November and we'd see another blowout. I gather Dean figured he had no shot at winning Virginia, given that Lyndon LaRouche had a more visible presence in the area. Kerry's here, Edwards was here, Dean is nowhere to be seen. One of Dean's supporters at the fundraising dinner in Richmond that he skipped apparently said something along the lines of "I really hope we don't come in fifth." That might've actually been a possibility for a while, as in the first round of results I heard Dean and Sharpton were tied for fourth. (Heh. The current headline on the local news web site: "The Rout Is On". Kerry's got a huge lead over Edwards, who in turn holds a huge lead over Clark, followed by Dean and then Sharpton.)

All things considered, I'd probably have gone the pragmatic route and voted for Kerry. He was about middle of the road in my list of preferred candidates, but I think that of those still standing, he's got the best shot at beating Shrub -- and really, that's foremost on my mind right now.