I posted an article about how they’ve got a combo boxing/chess game going on in Germany a few weeks back. I think Kasparov and Putin need to be put in the ring and have it out. How can they call it an “election”, if the people have no choice? Checkmate and down for the count!

“The Russian authorities have charged opposition leader and former chess champion Garry Kasparov following clashes with police in Moscow. He and other opposition figures were detained during a rally organised by Mr Kasparov’s Other Russia coalition. Mr Kasparov was charged with resisting arrest and organising an unauthorised protest. In speeches, leaders of the movement bitterly criticised the upcoming parliamentary election, saying there was no choice for voters. The commission has barred Other Russia candidates from the 2 December election. Mr Kasparov was forced to the ground and beaten before being detained, his assistant told AP news agency. He was later charged with organising an illegal protest and resisting arrest.”

via BBC News

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Ron Paul (36%)
No one/I don’t vote (20%)
Unsure (14%)
Barack Obama (12%)
Other Democrat (4%)
John Edwards (2%)
Mike Gravel (2%)
Other Republican (2%)
Third party candidate (2%)
Bill Richardson (1%)
82 total votes

Anarchist (19%)
Libertarian (11%)
Left-Libertarian (11%)
Other (9%)
Liberal/Progressive (8%)
Anarcho-Capitalist (8%)
Constitutionalist (5%)
Conservative (4%)
Anarcho-Primitivist (4%)
Socialist (3%)
Social Democrat/Democratic Socialist (3%)
Fascist (3%)
None (3%)
Anarcho-syndicalist (1%)
Communism (0%)
84 total votes

FWIW, I’m leaning towards Bill Richardson (even though I agree more with Mike Gravel) and my politics are probably closest to social democratic (but I don’t really fit neatly into that category).

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After posting the Ron Paul thing, I’m curious as to the political leanings of readers of this site…

Vote in the poll here.

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Male (67%)

Female (21%)

Neither/not sure (10%)

46 total votes

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Here are the results from the 2012 poll. Now that the synchronicity buzz has worn off, I’m less convinced anything out of the ordinary will happen in 2012. But it’s still fun to speculate.

What do you think will happen in 2012?

Nothing (25%)
All of the above (10%)
Catastrophic climate change (10%)
Alien/interdimensional/god contact (9%)
Other catastrophe (6%)
Quantum computing (5%)
Nuclear holocaust (5%)
Human cloning break through (5%)
Other scientific break through (5%)
Time travel (2%)
Teleportation (2%)
Apocalyptic disease outbreak or bioterrorism (2%)
True AI (2%)
Affordable consumer space travel (1%)
Telepathy drug (0%)
Brain back-ups (0%)
Catastrophic water shortage (0%)
Humans attain immortality (0%)
Matter Fax (0%)

134 total votes

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I have to admit, I’ve never been to into the 2012 myth… sure it’s interesting that the Mayan calender only went so far… but maybe they just decided that 2012 was far enough and they should maybe get to work on some other stuff like more words for their written language, and little pullys for water and stuff.

But seeing the National Geographic article that links 2012 with the peak of sunspot activity got my brain going on the subject. So yesterday I went to Robot Wisdom to find the polling site that Jorn uses… and low and beyold he had this link to a Jack London story set in a future in which a massive plague hit the world in 2013.

Spooky stuff.

Anyway, tell me what you think:

Poll: What Will Happen in 2012?. Update: Poll close. Results here.

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Would you consider getting a brain implant?

Yes: 69.5%

No: 17.3%

not sure: 13%

Total votes: 23

No new poll for a while, I need to install new polling software and I don’t want to mess with it until I get back from Europe.

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New poll’s up: Would you consider getting a brain implant?

Here are the results from the last poll: Do you have any tattoos or piercings (other than ears):

Yes: 55.2%
No: 28.9%
No, but I want to: 15.7%

Votes: 38

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Ten of us voted. Six of us, myself included, do NOT wear glasses or own a watch. Four of us do.

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According to my sophisticated instrumentation, 49.1% of you prefer drugs to computers, 42.9% prefer computers to drugs, and 7.8% of you prefer neither. 114 people voted. The next few polls will be an attempt to gather some of the basic demographic data about ya’ll.

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