Month: September 2004

David S. Bennahum: Abolishing the Electoral College David Bennahum explains the black magic behind electoral college in US. The “most democratic” country of all does not really have direct and fair presidential elections, but does like to rub other countries’ noses whenever they like… BTW, on top of what he points out as a very … Read more

Namazu: a Full-Text Search Engine Found this one by way of an article on Slashdot. Tried to compile it under Cygwin, but failed. After digging a little bit around, force converting ^M’s to proper UNIX line endings with sed -i ‘s/^M$//g’ (that’s Ctrl-V, Ctrl-M to get an ^M) in a few files, and finally manually … Read more