NWISC are showing a campy summer camp film "Wet Hot American Summer", starring Janeane Garofalo, for free tonight. It's a benefit though, so they will have opportunities to spend some money if you have it. Their program this summer starts with a campout in virgin forest; progresses to an intense summer camp session of classes on politics and media; the finish are students turned loose on social-political change projects in
Do you vote? There are many around the world dieing to do so. The lesser of evils dilemma plagues us here sometimes but no one would argue that vote counting should not be transparent and accurate. With computer software counting the vote, how can that be guaranteed? This is one of my issues and an area in which I have made original contributions.
Tonight "Does Not Compute: Protecting Political Rights in the Digital Age" is a talk by Nelson Pavlosky. You might not recognize the name, but perhaps you have heard of the internal memos from Diebold exposing shoddy and insecure software in their touch screen voting machines including those used in
Portland artist Bruce Conkle speaks at the free PSU Art Department series. Conkle is known for installations (and even puppet shows) which have included Sasquatch, alpenhorns, sweat lodges, snowmen. PSU Hall Street Theater 510 SW Hall 8:15PM Free
