I’ve been living in Cornwall for the last six years and recently moved back to Birmingham, after seeing an advert for aboutmyvote.gov.uk at the start of April I went and registered by filling in the form, printing out the PDF and sending it by snail mail. Because it was a little late (but within the deadline), I wasn’t expecting to get a polling card through. Its clear that the paperwork wasn’t done in time therefore I lost my vote.

This got me thinking why we can’t vote online. If we can manage our money on a daily basis online, why can’t we vote once every four years online? In an ideal world, this morning I could have woken up, logged on, input my governmentID and national insurance number and voted online. If computers counted the votes there would be less margin for error and it would be done a lot more quickly.

Whilst there are also arguments against this, in modern times where the Internet is used by billions of people on a daily basis, I don’t see why our government can’t create a secure system for us to handle this.

Feel free to add any opinions in the comments below.

Bon Iver – Wolves (act I & II) – Une Soiree de Poche from La Blogotheque on Vimeo.

Anyway… if you have an iPhone or iPod Touch, download it now!

Ten PSD files flew from San Francisco to Singapore in a blaze of pixels.

Check out the match here.

Anyone fancy a game of MS Paint Tennis?

I recently received my heart shaped nyc subway map and year planner from zeroperzero. I stumbled on it from kottke just before christmas and made the purchase (despite the shipping costing more than the calendar).

I wouldn’t normally blog about this but it was so immaculately packaged I felt I had to. Normally if you buy any kind of poster or calendar from the internet, it just arrives in a functional tube or box and is rubber banded. zeroperzero have taken this to the next level. It arrived as a box in a slightly larger box that is designed especially for the product. When you open the first flap on the box there is a short passage of text about this project and how they intend to develop it further. Then inside was the planner and the post-it notes to stick on the planner.

…listen to more music. make music. expand knowledge. expand everything. grow a little. drink more coffee. move to nyc. take more photographs. buy a globe that lights up. be kind. put a shelf up. get a new job.

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