I hate the tv

Boston Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley, seen below, is apparantly known for wearing non-descript brown garb. Now that he’s a cardinal he joked a bit about the new red outfit.

“Cardinal-designate Sean P. O’Malley told Boston reporters that he told the tailor, ‘I could always wear it if I was called to be on a hunting expedition with the vice president,’ Dick Cheney. ‘It’s very red.’”

From here and here. Thanks Chris!

I ran across this in a thread on FW…It details how to build this little guy:

It is a PC connection to a regular old phone. So you can use a regular phone like these at home:

Update:  This looks to be less work and more quick-and dirty.  Probably the way I’d go… They just open it up and solder wires to pads where sound comes in and out.

In a related story, Ion Sancho, the Florida Elections Supervisor who witnesssed the Harri Hurtsi Hack has been threatened with a lawsuit for not meeting the county deadline for getting new voting machines.

“Florida’s secretary of state’s office disparaged Sancho’s finding, demonstrating considerably more interest in propping up vendors than protecting elections.”

I guess no good deed goes unpunished.

UPDATE: Click here to write the state officials in Florida to protest the treatment of Ion Sancho.