cellio | short takes

Go read this article about shenanigans with voter registration in Ohio. Yikes!

aliza250 is looking for an image file of t'filat haderech. I don't have one -- do any of you? (This came up in a comment to an older entry.)

This is one of the funniest pictures I've seen lately (link from estherchaya).

From src: "Somewhere out in the tropical Atlantic there's the hurricane equivalent of a glider generator. Maybe even a queen bee." This made me laugh (geek humor), but it also made me wonder if anyone under the age of 30 gets it. (Her post has definitions, for those who want to know what the heck we're talking about.)

Hey, the Supremes are going to decide on a case of a city taking property via eminent domain for economic development (read: not public use). Pittsburgh has been doing, and threatening more of, that, and it seems like such a clear abuse of what eminent domain was created for. I'm glad to see a similar court challenge. (Eminent domain is for things like new roads, not for department stores and sports stadia.) I guess this is another argument for buying the cheapest house on the street (which is generally touted as good practice for eventual resale): if your neighbors are more threatened than you are, they'll do some of the fighting. (In our case I think many of our neighbors are also considerably wealthier than we are, which helps. Not that any politician with hopes of re-election would even threaten property in my neighborhood, mind... so it's academic for us.)