FRED GRIMM: Paperless voting opens door for election stealing (miami.com)
Ion "Sancho, Leon County's supervisor of elections, allowed a couple of computer scientists to try hacking into his voting system last year. ... 'I'm positive that an eighth-grader could do this,' computer science professor Herbert Thompson told The Miami Herald after he redirected 5,000 votes from one hypothetical candidate to another. In another test last month, Sancho's employees staged a mock election. They voted 6-2 ''NO'' -- that Finnish computer expert Harri Hursti couldn't hack their system. The vote count registered 7-1 `YES.' 'The most amazing thing,' Sancho said, was that the scientists erased all signs that they had tampered with the computer code. `There was no evidence that anything was wrong unless you counted the paper ballots.'''
Will Durst: The Shameless and Spineless
'It seems the Democrats have given up their right to ask Alito further questions, and they are now lying slumped over the Committee table.'
Theodore Dalrymple: Most murderers just need to get a life (theaustralian.news.com.au)
There are usually a few cans (never bottles) of beer on the carpet, which itself is highly patterned. Objects - dirty washing, the containers of takeaway meals, newspapers - are strewn all over the place and piled in corners. The disorder is not the result of a violent struggle, but of the way the inhabitants have lived for years, even - or especially - if they are unemployed and have nothing much else to attend to but their domestic tasks.
Nick Gillespie: Mark Twain vs. Tom Sawyer (reason.com)
It's hard to read Ron Powers' engaging new Mark Twain: A Life (Free Press) and not conclude that there's a congenital defect in the very heart of American literature. Powers, a Pulitzer Prize winner for Flags of Our Fathers, argues that the man born Samuel Clemens "democratized the national voice by availing it of vernacular; rough action that sprawled over waterway and open terrain; comedy political consciousness, and skepticism toward the very idea of lofty instruction."
An all consuming tale of overpowering taste for a forbidden nightly practice in a young man's bedroom of sticky self-abuse, sweet seduction and oral sin!
CBS begins the night with a FRESH'NCIS', followed by a RERUN'CSI: The Original One', then the SERIES PREMIERE'Love Monkey'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Tatum O'Neal and Jeff MacGregor.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Greg Kinnear, Paula Poundstone, and Ming Tsai.
NBC starts the night with a FRESH'Fear Factor', followed by a FRESH'Scrubs', then another FRESH'Scrubs', followed by a FRESH'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are Heath Ledger, Heidi Klum, and Ray J.
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are Martin Lawrence, and Soweto Gospel Choir.
Scheduled on a FRESHCarson Daly are Seth Green and We Are Scientists.
ABC opens the night with a RERUN'Jim', followed by a FRESH'Rodney', then a FRESH'Commander In Chief', followed by a FRESH'Boston Legal'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Michael Chiklis, Roselyn Sanchez, and Bo Bice.
The WB offers a FRESH'Gilmore Girls', followed by a FRESH'Supernatural'.
Faux has the SEASON PREMIERE'American Idol'.
UPN has a RERUN'South Beach'.
A&E has 'Cold Case Files', 'Death Detectives', 'Dog The Bounty Hunter', another 'Dog The Bounty Hunter', 'Airline', and another 'Airline'.
AMC offers the movie 'Arachnophobia', followed by the movie 'The Goonies', then the movie 'Tremors II: Aftershock'.
BBC -
[2pm] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - Blood, Devastation, Death, War and Horror;
[2:40pm] 'The Thin Blue Line' - The Queen's Birthday Present;
[3:20pm] 'The Thin Blue Line' - Fire and Terror;
[4pm] 'At Home with the Braithwaites' - Episode 8;
[5pm 'Monarch of the Glen' - Episode 3;
[6pm] 'BBC World News';
[6:30pm] 'House Invaders' - Episode 21;
[7pm] 'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 44;
[8pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Episode 8;
[9pm] 'Bad Girls' - Episode 10;
[10pm] 'Mile High' - Episode 13;
[11pm] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - Blood, Devastation, Death, War and Horror;
[11:40pm] 'Little Britain' - Episode 1;
[12:20am] 'Little Britain' - Episode 2;
[1am] 'Bad Girls' - Episode 10;
[2am] 'Mile High' - Episode 13;
[3am] 'Randall and Hopkirk' - Ep. 1 Drop Dead;
[4am] 'Randall and Hopkirk' - Ep. 2 Mental Apparition Disorder;
[5am] 'Randall and Hopkirk' - Ep. 3 The Best Years of Your Death;
[6am] 'BBC World News'. (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'West Wing', 'Project Runway', 'Queer Eye', and another 'Queer Eye'.
Comedy Central has 'Comedy Central Presents', 'Reno 911!', an old 'Jon Stewart', an old 'Colbert Report', 'Chappelle's Show', 'South Park', 'Distraction', and 'Mind Of Mencia'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJon Stewart is L. Paul Bremer.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report is Andrew Sullivan.
History has 'Bio Weapons', 'Ben Franklin', and 'Modern Marvels'.
IFC -
[6AM] The Quiet American (2002);
[7:45AM] IFC in Theaters (2005);
[8AM] The Last Days (1998);
[9:30AM] IFC Short Film Collection I: January (2006);
[11:30AM] Last Orders (2001);
[1:30PM] Slasher (2004);
[3PM] The Broken Hearts Club (2000);
[4:45PM] Last Orders (2001);
[6:45PM] Side Streets (1998);
[9PM] L'Auberge Espagnole (2002);
[11PM] Hopeless Pictures #4 (2005);
[11:15PM] Greg the Bunny: "The Addiction" (2005);
[11:30PM] Dinner For Five #43 (2005);
[12AM] Hopeless Pictures #3 (2005);
[12:15AM] Greg the Bunny: "Bunnie Hall" (2005);
[12:30AM] Dinner For Five #41 (2005);
[1AM] L'Auberge Espagnole (2002);
[3AM] Hopeless Pictures #4 (2005);
[3:15AM] Greg the Bunny: "The Addiction" (2005);
[3:30AM] Dinner For Five #43 (2005);
[4AM] Hopeless Pictures #3 (2005);
[4:15AM] Greg the Bunny: "Bunnie Hall" (2005);
[4:30AM] Dinner For Five #41 (2005);
[5AM] IFC Short Film Showcase: January (2006). (ALL TIMES EST)
SciFi has 'Surface', another 'Surface', still another 'Surface', and one more 'Surface'.
Sundance -
[6:30AM] A Slipping-Down Life;
[8:20AM] Super Size Me;
[10AM] Tribute: a Rockumentary;
[11:30AM] Safe Men;
[1PM] Original Child Bomb;
[2PM] Push Comes To Shove;
[2:15PM] A Slipping-Down Life;
[4:05PM] When the Day Breaks;
[4:15PM] Coldblooded;
[6PM] Iconoclasts: Grazer on Redstone;
[6:45PM] American Fame Part Two: Forgetting Jonathan Brandis;
[7PM] Super Size Me;
[8:45PM] The Act;
[9PM] Safe Men;
[10:30PM] Hamburger America;
[11:30PM] I Am NOT an ANIMAL: Money;
[12AM] Walker;
[1:35AM] Coldblooded;
[3:15AM] Orgazmo;
[5AM] Dirty Work. (ALL TIMES EST)
Hugh Laurie poses with his award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Drama for 'House, M.D.' at the 63rd Annual Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, California January 16, 2006.
Photo by Lucy Nicholson
Iran on Monday banned CNN journalists from working in the country after the broadcaster misquoted President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as saying Iran wanted nuclear weapons, the ISNA students news agency said.
CNN's simultaneous translation of Ahmadinejad's lengthy news conference on Saturday included the phrase "the use of nuclear weapons is Iran's right."
In fact, what the Iranian president said was that "Iran has the right to nuclear energy," the official IRNA news agency reported. CNN later clarified in an apology on Sunday night.
CNN on Monday acknowledged the mistranslation in a statement released from its headquarters in Atlanta and said it had apologized for the error on CNN International, CNNUSA and all other CNN outlets that had used the mistranslation.
Kabuki actor Tojuro Sakata, center, accompanied by his grandson, Toranosuke Nakamura, left, and leading female inpersonator Jakuemon Nakamura, as he greets his fans at Tokyo's Kabuki-za Theater Monday, Jan. 17, 2006. The 73-year-old actor, formerly Ganjiro Nakamura, is currently greeting his fans for the first time in the new year performance after he succeeded late November to the name of legendary Kabuki actor Tojuro Sakata, which had not been assumed for 231 years.
Photo by Koji Sasahara
Edvard Munch's masterpiece "The Scream" was apparently undamaged in a 2004 robbery but the less well-known "Madonna" suffered a minor tear, a man accused in connection with the theft said on Monday.
"The paintings weren't wrecked in the robbery," Thomas Nataas told Reuters of the two works stolen by gunmen from Oslo's Munch Museum in August 2004 and then stashed for several weeks in a bus owned by Nataas on farmland north of Oslo.
Art experts had feared the works, painted by Munch, a Norwegian, in 1893, were badly damaged when the thieves ripped off the wooden frames and threw them out of the windows of a getaway car, apparently fearing the frames might be embedded with a satellite tracking device.
Actress Brittany Murphy, who played a newlywed opposite Ashton Kutcher in the film comedy "Just Married," became engaged to her boyfriend over Christmas, People magazine reported on Monday.
Murphy, who also starred alongside Dakota Fanning in "Uptown Girls," got engaged to Joe Macaluso over the Christmas holidays, the magazine reported on its Web site.
According to People, the Georgia-born Murphy, 28, met Macaluso, a production assistant, on the set of her 2004 film "Little Black Book."
George Clooney, nominated for best director for his work on 'Good Night, and Good Luck,' and for best supporting actor for his work in 'Syriana,' arrives for the 63rd Annual Golden Globe Awards on Monday, Jan. 16, 2006, in Beverly Hills, Calif.
Photo by Mark J. Terrill
Amid a contract dispute, EchoStar Communications Corp. said Monday it has replaced one Lifetime Television channel on its Dish Network with Oxygen Media.
EchoStar discontinued the Lifetime and Lifetime Movie Network channels on Jan. 1 after the two sides failed to agree on programming fees as part of a new contract.
A radio host and Hollywood music consultant was released on $1 million US bail after being arrested at a nightclub for investigation of drugging and attempting to kidnap a 14-year-old girl, police said.
Chris Douridas, a KCRW-FM disc jockey who was nominated for a Grammy for his work on the soundtrack to American Beauty, was arrested Jan. 6 outside a Santa Monica nightclub after witnesses reportedly saw him put a substance in the unidentified girl's drink and carry her out of the club.
The girl became ill and was treated at a local hospital before being released, Santa Monica police Sgt. Jay Trisler said Sunday. It was unclear why she was inside the club.
Douridas hosts KCRW's New Ground, a Saturday program featuring new music. He's also a music supervisor and consultant for film and television. He helped compile the soundtracks for movies such as Shrek 2, As Good As It Gets and Grosse Pointe Blank.
Miss Arizona Audrey Sibley walks on the stage during the rehearsals for the 2006 Miss America Pageant at Aladdin hotel-casino in Las Vegas on Monday, Jan. 16, 2006. 52 contestants will compete in the annual Miss America pageant on Saturday, Jan. 21. It will be the first time in the pageant's 85-year history that the winner will be crowned outside Atlantic City, N.J.
Photo by Jae C. Hong
The Camden family is disappearing from television in May strictly for financial reasons: the WB's top executive said Sunday that the network is losing $16 million this year on "7th Heaven."
The family drama, the most popular program in the network's history, will end its run after 10 years. The decision seems irreversible despite an Internet campaign to save it, even though "7th Heaven" is still the WB's second highest-rated show after "Gilmore Girls."
Production costs tend to jump for television series as they get older, largely because the salaries of actors and others involved grow with success. "7th Heaven," about a family of seven and all their friends, has a large cast.
Barbara 'Not-Jenna' Bush, daughter of U.S. resident George W. Bush, walks around a limousine upon her arrival in Accra, Ghana, after accompanying her mother, U.S. first lady Laura 'Pickles' Bush, to the inauguration of Liberia's President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in Monrovia, Liberia, Monday, Jan. 16, 2006.
Photo by Charles Dharapak
Former child actor Joe Pichler, who appeared in two of the "Beethoven" comedies, has been missing for a week, and relatives and authorities disagree on whether writings he left in his car included a suicide note.
Relatives and others joined police, emergency workers and tracking dogs in unsuccessful efforts to find Pichler, now 18, since his empty car was found Jan. 9 at an intersection above a narrow arm of water called the Port Madison Narrows in Bremerton.
In the car was a note in which he wrote about wishing to be a "stronger brother" and asking that his belongings go to a younger brother, his family said.
Country singer Tim McGraw, left, arrives with his wife, singer Faith Hill for the 63rd Annual Golden Globe Awards on Monday, Jan. 16, 2006, in Beverly Hills, Calif.
Photo by Mark J. Terrill
It's called ice wine - dubbed "the nectar of the gods" for its rare, sweet intensity, and high price. It's so rare that in upstate New York, winemaker Art Hunt had to wait three years for the current harvest.
And then, finally, came that magic moment. With the temperature at 10 degrees and the berries just ripe enough, Hunt and his crew picked six tons of Vidal grapes and quickly pressed them to make the new ice wine now fermenting to drink by springtime.
At Hunt Country Vineyards in Branchport, about an hour from Rochester and five hours from Manhattan, good weather for picking grapes means the kind of subfreezing temperature that would ruin a normal harvest.
The temperature must be low enough so the water in each berry freezes - far lower than 32 degrees, given the concentration of sugar and acid. The ideal temp is about 10 degrees, when water turns into crystals that stay solid and are left behind in the berry when it is pressed.
Vidal grapes hang on the vine covered in snow waiting to be harvested and pressed for ice wine Friday, Nov. 25, 2005 in Branchport, N.Y.
Photo by Julie Jacobson
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