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This is silly.

Friday Five

1. Did you vote in your last elections? Yes
2. Do you know who your elected representatives are? Yes
3. Have you ever contacted an elected representative? If so, what was it about? Tried to get my rep to take care of an Army screwup several years ago - he just said the army is blameless in all things; he never got my vote. I also contact my rep and senators occasionally when issues of interest are up for vote.
4. Have you ever participated in a demonstration? Nope.
5. Have you ever volunteered in an election? What was the result? Besides the Mayfair Hall of Shame in 1988, nope.

Distributed Proofreading

Proving once again that /. is a potent source of change, the Distributed Proofreading project has completed 6169 pages so far today, compared to 6281 the previous 7 days. All thanks to one artcle on Slashdot. Coolio.

Now I've got something to do at work...

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Update: As of Tuesday morning, they're up to 52000+ pages complete this month, compared to the goal of 33000, and they're sustaining about 10,000 pages per day since the Slashdot and Kuro5hin stories were posted. What a great public work using spare time. Love computers.