Just so you know - about the Hillary Clinton poll in the sidebar

I don't know if it will still be there when you read this but at the moment the big tall button in the sidebar promotes a "Hillary Clinton" political poll. If you should decide to complete this poll and click on the button you'll wind up on a page that explains, among other things, you can be registered to win an iPod mini if you complete the poll.

Now this would normally be enough to put some people off (including me) because if you want to be entered in the iPod drawing you will obviously have to give up at least your mailing address. So - just so you know - I completed the poll to see where and how the address question comes up (thereby selflessly sacrificing myself for your well-being, dear reader) and also to see what kind of questions they ask.

You do not have to register to win the iPod in order to complete the poll.

The request for an address and phone number (so they can send you the iPod, of course) comes on the last page, after all the other questions have been answered. If you simply leave that page blank and "Continue" the poll appears, at least, to finish successfully and without complaint. (Of course I have no idea if the answers are actually recorded, but there is no indication they're not.)

So then, if you do want to complete the poll, go ahead. And if you do want to register for the iPod, be my guest. But registering is not required in order to answer the questions or to complete the poll process.

You can trust the Empire. The Empire has only your best interests at heart. The Empire is kind and beneficent and, to date, has not acquired a police force.

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