Are you smarter than a 2 yr old?

Geography Genius Baby watch! youtube.com — This 23 month-old baby can barely speak, but she is able to correctly locate most countries on a world map!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r43yCiKlbCo

Vote Early & Vote Often: Mass. Woman Fined 4K For Voting In Conn.

From wnbc.com POSTED: 8:29 am EDT September 24, 2007:
GROTON, Conn. -- State election officials have fined a Massachusetts
woman $4,000 for voting in Connecticut with an absentee ballot that tied
a primary race in Groton, forcing the race to be decided by a coin toss.

The state Elections Enforcement Commission fined Alicia Primer, of
Weston, Mass., who has a home in Groton and had been registered to vote
in both states, officials said.
Primer was fined for causing last year's tie between Elissa Wright and
Rita Schmidt in the Democratic primary for state representative from the
41st District.
Former Democratic Registrar of Voters Allen Palmer filed the complaint
months after the August 2006 election after he discovered the person who
cast the tie vote, Primer, should not have been allowed to vote.
This summer Primer told an elections enforcement official and The Day of
New London that she thought she could vote in Groton because she owned
property there.
"The Commission considers registering to vote and voting in more than
one jurisdiction at a time to be a serious offense, but is utilizing its
civil authority due to what it perceives as the lack of intent on the
part of the Respondent to commit a crime," the commission said in its
decision.
When the votes were counted last August, Rita Schmidt had one vote more
than Wright. But when the mandatory recount was completed, state
officials advised Palmer to count one more absentee ballot, the one from
Primer. The absentee voter in question had presented an acceptable form
of identification when registering to vote in person at Town Hall. But
the state registration system had not recognized the person's Social
Security number, and the absentee ballot did not contain another form of
identification. So the ballot was put aside.
As part of Palmer's investigation into whether to count the ballot, he
had to confirm that the person was indeed a valid voter in the town. He
verified that the voter, Primer, was on the list of registered voters,
and counted the ballot.
The August 2006 Democratic primary was decided by a coin toss, which
favored Wright. Wright went on to win the general election. She
successfully got a new law passed that got rid of the practice of
breaking of a tie in a primary "by lot" and replaced it with a runoff
election.

USS Grunion (SS-216) - Wikipedia

The USS Grunion (SS-216) was recently found off the coast of Alaska. It was a Gato-class submarine like the Growler and Harder.

Word of the day: Utahns - people from Utah.

YouTube - Gizmo Flushes

You have to see this: YouTube - Gizmo Flushes

and then checkout BJ & Cognac in CatFight!

Mark'llfixit

I fixed a 1920's slot machine. It was fun working with the old style levers and gears; the insides were like an old cash register, with the effect of keeping the change 92% of the time.

BTW, the Fig Newton will be interviewed on radio and webcast on http://www.2dorks.com on Tuesday at 10am ET.
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Featured Maps - Yahoo! MapMixer

Yahoo! MapMixer allows you to overlay your own art over their clickable maps.

Also seen today: A cellphone for your dog. PetsMobility also makes PawTRAX™ an online tracking system that lets users to track their pets via the Internet, monitor their temperature surroundings and more.

FYI: Help find Steve Fosset.

This site is using tools from Amazon and Google earth to load fresh
satellite images and allow people to help look for Steve Fosset from
their computers.

It's a pretty interesting use of technology that may have better chances
than the SETI@home project.

On Monday, September 3, 2007, Steve Fossett
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Fossett> , the first person to fly a
plane around the world without refueling and the first person to fly
around the world in a balloon went missing in Nevada. An airplane he was
flying failed to return. No one has any idea where he is. Through the
generous efforts of individuals at several organizations, detailed
satellite imagery has been made available for his last known
whereabouts.

http://www.mturk.com/mturk/preview?groupId=9TSZK4G35XEZJZG21T60&kw=Flash

Google Maps: NoBeBoSco

We used to go camping at Camp NoBeBoSco, also featured as Camp Crystal Lake in the Fritday the 13th movies.

A Cincinnati company is requiring any employee ... to be implanted with a microchip.

A Cincinnati company is requiring any employee who works in its secure
data center to be implanted with a microchip.

The video surveillance company CityWatcher.com
<http://www.wnd.com/redir/r.asp?http://www.citywatcher.com/> injected
two of its employees in the triceps area of the arm with the VeriChip, a
glass-encapsulated RFID, or radio-frequency identification, tag,
according to Liz McIntyre, co-author of "Spychips: How Major
Corporations and Government Plan to Track Your Every Move with RFID."

Mark from IT