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.