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About this video: Every vote should count in the presidential election! The National Popular Vote plan would reform the current Electoral College system to make every vote equal. It has passed in Maryland and New Jersey, and a total of 15 legislative chambers.

Currently, the Electoral College system is uninspiring to Americans, at best, and disenfranchising many millions of others. Do you live in a “red” state or a “blue” state? If so, your vote may not really count. Ok, so, sure, it does count, but think of how many people stay home when they think they know what the result would be. Democrats living in staunch Republican states (and vice versa) have virtually no chance of having their say in a presidential election.

From NationalPopularVote.com: “The National Popular Vote bill would guarantee a majority of the Electoral College to the presidential candidate who receives the most popular votes in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The bill would reform the Electoral College so that the electoral vote in the Electoral College reflects the choice of the nation’s voters for President of the United States.”

From this site I learned that 15 states have already passed the bill, and legislation has been considered in 44 states.

Friday March 21 only: Get Evernote 2.2 (full) or beta free today! This is one of the all-time best software programs I could ever recommend. (After March 21, you can still go to Evernote and get 2.2 but it will revert to a slightly lower version after 60 days - still worthwhile!)

Giveaway of the Day link

Evernote Beta lets you capture any information from your real and digital life and then find it all easily anytime.

The latest version of Evernote, currently an invitation-only beta, gives users more options than ever before to create and find their memories - a Windows version (main download links), Mac version, Web version, Windows Mobile version, Mobile Web version, browser web page clippers, and more. All clients can be synchronized to one another via the web, ensuring that anything created in one place is accessible from all others.

In addition, all users now have access to Evernote’s powerful image recognition, which recognizes text inside of images so users can take camera phone snapshots of anything from whiteboards to wine labels.

Features:

• Access notes across multiple platforms: Windows, Mac (OS X 10.5), Web, Windows Mobile, Mobile Web Browser;
• Full synchronization across all platforms;
• Powerful image recognition and search for printed and handwritten text in images;
• Email and MMS snapshots and text from your mobile phone to your personalized Evernote email address;
• Windows and Mac clients allow local-only notebooks, which will not synchronize with the Evernote Service

SciFi keeps fight going with ‘Battlestar’ prequel

Cable channel green-lights two-hour pilot ‘Caprica’

By Paul J. Gough

Hollywood Reporter

updated 12:07 p.m. ET, Wed., March. 19, 2008

NEW YORK - Sci Fi Channel’s “Battlestar Galactica” will live on with “Caprica.” At its “upfront” presentation to advertisers Tuesday in New York, the cable channel said that it has green-lighted a two-hour pilot for the prequel, which had been in development for two years.

Sci Fi also has given the go-ahead to “True Believer,” a two-hour back-door pilot created by Rosario Dawson and David Atchinson — who co-wrote the comic book series “Occult Crimes Task Force” — about a comic book enthusiast who hires a former superhero to teach him about crime-fighting. It joins “The Stranded,” a two-hour pilot of a Sci Fi/Virgin Comics joint venture.

The network also plans an “Alice in Wonderland”-based six-hour miniseries titled “Alice.” A two-hour comedy-drama pilot, “Deputized,” follows a man who fights crime around the galaxy after getting super powers.

“Caprica,” which is set 50 years before the events in the departing “Battlestar,” will begin production in the spring. It hails from the “Battlestar” masterminds Ronald D. Moore and David Eick.

As for “Battlestar,” the series’ final-season premiere will debut online nine hours before it airs on TV.

Sci Fi’s reality slate includes “Estate of Panic,” a series about seven people who compete to find millions of dollars at an estate, and “Brain Trust,” in which geniuses bands together to solve problems. The channel also announced new seasons of “Scare Tactics,” now hosted by “30 Rock’s” Tracy Morgan; “Mind Control With Derren Brown”; and “Ghost Hunters International.” And a May 18 special by NBC News correspondent Lester Holt will feature “Mystery of the Crystal Skulls,” about the real-life search for what the objects at the center of the latest “Indiana Jones” movie.

The channel also will expand its digital offerings with a game site launching in mid-April as well as “Battlestar” webisodes and a social game based on the show. An original Web series, “Starcrossed,” is planned to debut in the fourth quarter.

Take a look at the brand new gallery I’ve compiled of Trapper Keepers and Trapper portfolios (folders) from the 1980s and 1990s.  It is permanently linked at the top of the page, or you can see it here.