[Scott Long][1] announces changes to the release engineering process with a focus shift from features to timelines. Time for me to update the FreeBSD Project Model document again (already have one uncommitted major revision here that I'd planned to commit shortly after 5.3 )

[1]: http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=2259911 0 current/freebsd-current

At Kurohin they are double-checking the numbers and drawing their connclusions from the US election. Although I haven't thought the American voting system a suitable tool for a democracy, it is a boost that people can and do verify the numbers. More openness of election data and the data presented in open formats will only help us understand the democracies better. Keep up the good work, whoever is behind this.

(PS, computerizing elections doesn't mean people won't screw up, as Wired can attest to)

Ed Gottsman writes about RFID tags for ZDNet and sais it could eliminate check-out and just deduct the money from your VISA card as you leave the store. Don't know about you, but I find way to often that stores overcharge me and don't give the price as advertised unless I point it out for them. And this is with identifying technologies as barcodes. So I guess I won't be the one cheering when my VISA bill is way larger then what it should be because I wasn't able to say to anyone "now, look here, in your ad you say it costs this but you're still charging me double".

The Munch museum that recently had Scream and Madonna stolen has been closed in order to set up new security measures so that a similar theaft doesn't happen again. A month ago the police said they were closing in on the buggars that stole them. So while we're waiting for them to come back and the museum to open, Always Curious gives us his version of Scream