Lauren Caitlin Upton is an idiot

Apparently Lauren Upton is one of the 20% of Americans who don’t own maps. Or something.

From the Miss Teen USA Pageant (24 August 2007):

“Recent polls have shown a fifth of Americans can’t locate the U.S. on a world map. Why do you think this is?”

Miss South Carolina, Lauren Caitlin Upton:

“I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because, uhmmm, some people out there in our nation don’t have maps and uh, I believe that our, I, education like such as uh, South Africa, and uh, the Iraq, everywhere like such as, and I believe that they should, uhhh, our education over here in the US should help the US, uh, should help South Africa, it should help the Iraq and the Asian countries so we will be able to build up our future, for us.”

Moving? Here’s where to change your address

I moved last year, and I had to change my address everywhere. As I did this, I kept track of where, hoping to make the process easier next time. Forgetting organizations is annoying.

The list I’ve compiled is below the jump. Where possible, I’ve included a link to the web page where you can make the change.

Please add general both categories of organizations and specific companies in the comments.

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Best recruiter story. Ever.

Tony is a UI engineer. He gets a lot of recruiter spam. Usually it’s related to his skillset.

This time, however, the recruiter was looking for a filesystems engineer.

They had this hilarious exchange:

Recruiter: We’re looking for somebody with 7-10 years of experience writing filesystems.
Me: The only person I know with that level of experience writing filesystems is Hans Reiser.
Recruiter: Have you worked with Hans before? Can you send me his resume?
Me: http://www.idiom.com/~beverly/hans_resume.html
Recruiter: You are too funny! We’re willing to let our developers telecommute but the state penn. wasn’t quite what we had in mind. Thanks for making me smile though :)

Dan Rather Reports: the trouble with touch screens

From HDNet:

Dan Rather Reports presents conclusive evidence of the failure of touch screen voting machines across the country. The episode, “The Trouble with Touch Screens”, is an entire hour devoted to new information on this story. From scientists involved in testing the equipment, to manufacturers in third world countries who shipped these defective voting machines to the United States, Dan Rather Reports presents new information showing that these defective machines may have altered the outcome of multiple elections.