Monthly Archives: October 2005

Electowidget

By robla | Published: October 31, 2005
For the past couple of months, I've been working on Electowidget. Electowidget is a plugin for MediaWiki designed to make it possible to conduct Internet polls and elections using many different voting systems, including the Schulze method, Instant Runoff Voting, Approval voting, and even plain old Plurality.
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MediaWiki OpenID patch

By robla | Published: October 6, 2005
Looks like Dan Libby posted a [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki OpenID patch. I’ll have to give it a spin after I get done with my current project.
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Coming soon: The Shining

By robla | Published: October 4, 2005
If you haven’t already seen this, you must. It’s a trailer for The Shining, only perhaps not quite as you remembered it (via MetaFilter)
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IRS file format for tax stats: .exe files

By robla | Published: October 4, 2005
If you want to get IRS tax statistics, looks like you better have a computer that supports .exe files (Microsoft Windows executable). SOI Tax Stats – Filing Season Statistics / Taxpayer Usage Study There are so many things wrong with this, I’m not sure where to start…
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