Things Are Good

The BBC is reporting that the European Parliament has given a resounding NO to the proposed patent legislation. An amazing rejection vote of 648 – 14.
Here is a brief reason of what is wrong with software patent legislation. This is really good news for small software developers and the open source community.

Americans, Iraqis, British, people of all nations are dying in Iraq, this is not good. The situation in Iraq is nowhere near good, in fact things are only getting worse. So why does this post exist on a website that is dedicated good things?
The Palm Beach Post has provided a map of Americans killed in [...]

Direct civic participation in large democracies in the developed world is very hard. It is possible to find out how your elected representative voted, but it is hard to do. That is until now.
You can now find out how your elected official voted!
In the United States there is a great website that seems to have [...]