A judge ruled Friday that congressional aspirant Christine Jennings has no right to examine the programming source code that runs the electronic voting machines at the center of a disputed Southwest Florida congressional race.

Circuit Judge William Gary ruled that Jennings’ arguments about the possibility of lost votes were “conjecture,” and didn’t warrant overriding the trade secrets of the voting machine company.

Jennings still has a complaint filed before Congress, which is the ultimate arbiter of who will fill the seat. The seat is being vacated by Rep. Katherine Harris, a Republican who unsuccessfully ran for the Senate.

“The House has the power to collect evidence and make a decision about who, if anyone, was duly elected to represent the people of the 13th district,” U.S. Rep. Rush Holt, D-N.J., said Friday before the judge’s ruling. Holt plans to make an official statement next week making it clear that by seating Buchanan, the House isn’t forfeiting the right to reverse that decision later.

The finding of a parrot with an almost unparalleled power to communicate with people has brought scientists up short.

The bird, a captive African grey called N’kisi, has a vocabulary of 950 words, and shows signs of a sense of humour.

He invents his own words and phrases if he is confronted with novel ideas with which his existing repertoire cannot cope - just as a human child would do.

sheldrake.org/nkisi

I didn’t get too close to this one, glad for the long end of my zoom.

11 Spring.

Elizabeth Street panorama.

Taken on xmas eve morn.
These panoramas with direct sunlight on the building are a tough to color match.

Grate below the Elizabeth Street wall captures the artistic detritus.

Jasmine Zimmerman’s rubber bands huddling together post snapping.

One dollar Stikman.

I’ve been calling these rb827’s "Chubby Betty" because they resemble Betty Boop the cartoon flapper from the early talkies. A broken stikman is blue on the right.

A scan of a slide from the 80’s