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Election Update

Filed under: General — by Jane Novak at 12:44 pm on Sunday, December 5, 2004

Click: Find another pawprint and put it in our notebook
Click: Partly cloudy with a chance of
Click: Not wearing their heavy wool coats during the battle of Monmouth
Click: This is Katie Couric at Wizbang headquarters with an election update. (beams) In the “Best Overall Blog” catagory, apparently some very talented Kos readers have devised an ingenious voting robot. Isn’t that cute? (beams) Poll watchers at Wizbang headquarters are engaging in a manual recount to certify the votes. Boy, that Kos has some loyal fans dedicated to victory for their candidate. Its great to see the political system in action. (tosses hair) Of course LGF readers and many of those on the right are tossing derogatory names like asshat, while those on the left are wondering if it is a Karl Rove inspired stroke of brilliance. One Wizbang commenter said there’s “no way to tell if it was agitprop by a freeper.” How true…..We all know about those brrr….(shivers) Freepers.

Meanwhile the titans battle it out in the Best New Blog Catagory: Bill at INDC unveiled TOP TEN REASONS to Vote for INDC including this gem: Geraghty’s picked up the annoying NRO tendency to refer to himself in the third person. He repeatedly stated “Jim Geraghty likes guns. Big ones. Oh yes, Jim Geraghty likes …” during his last appearance on Cam Edwards’ show. Katie finds this habit annoying as well.

The Kerry Spot battled back and issued the following statement: I have been told that in the coming days, a newly-formed 527 group called “Pajamahadeen Vets for Truth” will be running ads criticizing Bill. Of course, Jim dissassociates himself completely from the ads but we have found that his third grade teacher’s second cousin’s neighbor shops at the same bakery as Jim. I smell a scandal brewing here.

Lets toss it to Matt for updates on the other candidates in this catagory, Matt?
Matt: Good morning Katie, aren’t you chipper today? I’m stuck here in this trailer park as Jane Mosley Braun and Preston Kusinich court the pro-Hmong voting block.
Preston Kusinich stood on the hood of a car and leveled charges of voting irregularities by Jane. He then unleashed Warren Christopher who immediately began chasing a squirrel. In the most heart tugging moment of the day, Jane Mosley Braun began throwing Mary Kate and Ashley books to the assembled crowd of hillbillies, causing several of them to cry and beg for mercy. Can I come back to the studio now? Please? Katie?

Katie: Matt? Matt? Watch out for that very pretty and very large elephant charging you! Matt? Woops!

Click. Whoosh Dong. This is a Fox News Alert. According to the Federal government…today is Sunday. Expert analysis to follow. Whoosh Dong. This is a Fox News Alert. Jane Mosley Braun has barricaded herself in Preston Kusinich’s rainbow bus in an attempt to escape a rabid Warren Christopher and a crowd of pro-Hmong hillbillies throwing books. Apparently Braun has gotten hold of Kusinich’s secret stash of tofu and is hurling it back at the crowd. Matt Lauer has been trampled by a ‘bama pacaderm. Stay tuned for updates. Whoosh Dong. This is a Fox News Alert. Those who perpetrated the voter fraud in the weblog awards have been self-exonerated and no apology is expected to be forthcoming. (chuckles) Next, “Values” what are they and why….Click

13 Comments »

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Comment by actus

12/5/2004 @ 6:17 pm

‘This is Katie Couric at Wizbang headquarters with an election update. (beams) In the “Best Overall Blog” catagory, apparently some very talented Kos readers have devised an ingenious voting robot. ‘

Its not that ingenious. Its pretty obvious to a web programmer. I can’t believe the poll didn’t account for that. Security exploits like this should be published.

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Comment by Jane

12/5/2004 @ 6:22 pm

They could have sent an email to Wizbang instead of blowing the whole awards thing out of the water.

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Comment by The Elephant

12/5/2004 @ 6:42 pm

Ahhh…it was such an enjoyable experience. I just couldn’t tolerate their constant yammering. Next…that annoying Katie. Maybe I’ll just shit on her head.

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Trackback by MY Vast Right Wing Conspiracy

12/5/2004 @ 6:52 pm

Election Fraud!
Don’t vote for The Fourth Rail in the Best New Blog category! He sends money to terrorists, and calls them insurgents, fer Chrissakes!

And worse, he’s ahead of me in the voting! The fight is on!

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Comment by actus

12/5/2004 @ 7:19 pm

There was notification.

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Comment by actus

12/5/2004 @ 7:20 pm

Oh, and awards like this should be blown out of the water, so we all get used to not caring about them.

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Comment by Preston Taylor Holmes

12/5/2004 @ 7:34 pm

And you claim to not have a sense of humor. You lied again! Jane lied! Thousands fried!

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Trackback by Six Meat Buffet

12/5/2004 @ 10:08 pm

Sunday night roundup
All the while, Jane continues to attack me personally, repeatedly hurting my feelings. So much so, that I believe I’ve developed PEST Syndrome.

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Comment by The Elephant

12/5/2004 @ 10:09 pm

You’re going to like this, Jane…
heeheeheehee

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Trackback by MY Vast Right Wing Conspiracy

12/5/2004 @ 10:09 pm

Campaign stratergery
Karl Rove called. He gave me the go-ahead to proceed with the campaign plan inspired by another blogger’s (pre-election) post.
Things are getting desperate.

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Comment by Jane

12/5/2004 @ 10:45 pm

Preston, is that best your Al Gore impression?

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Comment by Jane

12/6/2004 @ 12:09 am

Beth dear, shhhh, don’t let the Commissar know about the whole random trackback thingy-we’ll be sent to the Gulag for sure! Ping you’re it.

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Comment by Jeremy

12/6/2004 @ 1:03 am

Wizbang! has an update to the ballot stuffing scandal. The total stuffed ballotts so far is around 50,000.

The funny thing is that they could have hacked it better. Here comes the science:

They removed the votes because of the multiple IP’s. On my connection, COX, my IP changes whenever I decide to disconenct for a while and reconnect, thus enabling multiple, untraceable votes.

Another method is dial-up. When you connect to the internet you get an IP. When you log off and reconnect you get a different IP. A script could be run to accomplish this task. (Sorry Jane, I suck at scripting.)

The last solution is rather devious but would put anyone well over the top. Create a virus to infect machines with a daily voting script. It would be a distributed evolution for your vote. Of course, the trick would be making the virus and not going to prison. (again, I suck at scripting.)

A solution is there for two of the three problems: Instead of going off of IP’s use the MAC (Media Access Control) number. The MAC of a computer is the number assigned to your NIC card, the thing you plug your internet cable into. Every card in the world has their own private number and can be traced that way. The only difficulty would be people with dial-up as they don’t have a MAC address on modems that you can record over the net. (trust me, I’ve tried.)

……..
Crap
……..

Sorry Jane,
I just completely geeked out on this thing. I may have to put this in a new “you might be a geek” segment.

BTW: I just voted for you again for the third straight day in a row. Congratulations on even being nominated.

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