Rob Lanphier's Home Page

First, some links:

My blog - just like a diary, except there's no good way to dot the i's with hearts.
Electorama! - electoral reform website
Election Methods Mailing List-Lots of ranting from all corners of the globe about mathematical minutia of elections. I administer this list, but haven't been an active participant in years.
Electowidget - a tool I'm building for conducting internet polling using Condorcet, Instant Runoff, etc
JSONwidget - new tool (as of 2005-12-01) for editing JSON files in the browser (written in Javascript
My Advogato Page - This is an open source software website that lets me keep a weblog, which I sometimes update.
My Slashdot Postings - I got lots of cheap karma on Slashdot from being the RealNetworks guy in the crosshairs a lot. :)
My Wikipedia user page - I waste time here, too.
My SSH public key - if that sort of thing matters to you

About Rob Lanphier

(updated January 5, 2010) - I'm a software industry guy going back 17 years, having worked at Linden Lab (makers of Second Life), RealNetworks, and Asymetrix, among other places. Check out my blog for the latest.

I wrote an article a while back for Issue #3 of The Perl Journal, a quarterly magazine dedicated to the Perl programming language. The article, titled "Perl, Politics, and Pairwise Voting: Perl as the Activist's Friend" is about Condorcet's method, which is a really elegant way of electing folks in contests where there must be one and only one winner, such as president, governor, mayor, or Best Supporting Actress in an Elvis Presley Movie. It's particularly well suited to elections with three or more candidates (and thus provides a means for eliminating primary elections). Actually, the article centered on the program I wrote for calculating Condorcet winners in a single seat election.

Here's my wife's homepage. She doesn't update her page much, either.

This is a list of movies my father-in-law has worked on. He paints things. I'll let him explain.

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