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Links for 23 August 2008 through 24 August 2008

25 August 2008 in Daily Links by del.icio.us | 1 comment

Stilgherrian’s links for 23 August 2008 through 24 August 2008, with shaved parmesan:

Medals per mil. Population by Country | Swivel: Sean Carmody continues his data mining on the Beijing Olympics that discover that the Bahamas is the highest medal winner per capita, followed by Jamaica, Slovenia, Australia and New Zealand.
Ohio Voting Machines Contained Programming Error That Dropped Votes | washingtonpost.com: “A voting system used in 34 [US] states contains a critical programming error that can cause votes to be dropped while being electronically transferred from memory cards to a central tallying point, the manufacturer acknowledges.” Yet another argument against computer-based voting.

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Tags: beijing, corruption, olympics, Politics, sean carmody, statistics, voting

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Ben Williamson on 01 September 2008 at 9:25 am

xkcd explains antivirus software on voting machines: http://xkcd.com/463/

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