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links for 2008-09-29

• FiveThirtyEight.com: Electoral Projections Done Right
  Seems to have the balance and the data that's been lacking from all the other places I've seen so far. Of course, what do I know.
• Conferencia internacional en Málaga sobre el software libre
  I'm on the opening day agenda of the Malaga conference again this year. Very pleased to be going back to it, last time I spoke was a great experience and seemed to be memorable for others too. I'll be speaking about the challenges the "third wave" (or commercial and government embrace) brings to software freedom.
• ODF workshop update
  This looks like being a fascinating event. It's the second ODF Workshop organised by the ODF Alliance and this time it's in South Africa. I'm honoured to have been asked to participate and I look forward to meeting the speakers and delegates, all of whom have fascinating stories and valuable experience to share.
• The First Annual JVM Language Summit
  Great report from Ted. He says "I think that the only regret that I had was that this was the first annual JVM Language Summit. Imagine where we’d be if this had been the fifth". In fact, I still think this was a primary failure by Sun stretching back to the late 90s - this should have been happening for ten years, there have been multiple languages for the JVM for a decade.
• Deathbed
  Jim (Grisanzio) is right - the out-of-date attacks by Jim (Zemlin) simply demonstrate the opposite of his assertion is true by the very fact of the attack, before we even get to the easy task of refuting most of them.
• Now is the Time to Resist Wall Street's Shock Doctrine
  The fact the "Wall Street Crisis" is being used as a shock opportunity to fiscally rape those not inside the right-wing elite is not the surprise. The question I'm still waiting to hear answered on the economic crisis is: why now? Why not last year or next year? Why now, just at the end of the Bush & Brown regimes?

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