So here we are, less than two weeks before the event! Considering how tight everyone's budgets are this year, I'm really impressed and touched by how quickly my little thermometer on the Run/Walk site has started to fill up. It's not at its total--please help move it up ( Read more... )

Hey all. I usually start fundraising for the Revlon Run/Walk for Women sometime in January, but one thing or another kept getting in my way this year. Part of it is worrying about the economy--people are really cutting back on charitable donations, and I'm sure if I set as high a goal as in previous years I'd have no hope of meeting it. So I'll set ( Read more... )

Copy this sentence into your livejournal if you're in a heterosexual marriage, and you don't want it "protected" by the bigots who think that gay marriage hurts it somehow.

[Takes 1 second. Yes, really. Go, answer ( Read more... )

After reading this, you may wish to vote absentee.

[editing to add a link to the relevant Division of Elections page.]

Here, have the first two paragraphs:

A judge of the New Jersey Superior Court has prohibited the scheduled release of a report on the security and accuracy of the Sequoia AVC Advantage voting machine. Last June, Judge Linda ( Read more... )

This is via someone on a mailing list some (but not all) of you are on. I'm not sure if the writer has an LJ or not--could've sworn he did. Anyway:

Per the Google Blog post [here,] one can now set one's default Google language to "Pirate", in recognition of Thursday's Talk Like A Pirate Day.

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