It’s over, let it go

This is the headling on the best comment on the election result, so far — from Larry Lessig’s Blog:

“Wrong, wrong, yet again, I was, we are, wrong. I was on an airplane last night, from SFO to London, so at least I didn’t suffer the minute by minute awfulness of this result. But it’s 5am PST, and we should remember some principles: When Bush ‘lost’ in 2000, we said it was because (1) he had lost the popular vote, and (2) he had short circuited the count in one state to win in the College.

Bush has won the popular vote. And it would take a freak of nature to imagine the 220,000 provisional ballots would fall strongly enough to shift Ohio. He will win the College. He is our President — legitimately, and credibly.

Our criticism of this administration must now focus narrowly and sharply: on the policies, not on the credibility of the man.”

The best US election site…

… is Electoral-Vote.com. The big surprise is that it is the creation of one man — Andrew Tanenbaum. Who he? Well, in geekdom, he’s a real celeb — an expert on operating systems who created Minix, a miniature Unix-like OS developed for teaching purposes. Why is that interesting? Well, Minix was the catalyst which stimulated Linus Torvalds to embark on the creation of Linux. The story has often been told — e.g. here. I had no idea Andrew was interested in politics. His site is terrific. Wish I’d known about it earlier.