If you plan on participating in either the Republican or Democratic primary on February 5th (in two weeks) you MUST register to vote by midnight tonight. Don't panic, you don't have to rush out into traffic, just make sure your application (download it here) is postmarked by midnight. Dig the last-minute madness? You can drop your application in person at the LA County Clerk's desk in Norwalk (map) by midnight (see the OC Registrar [map]......

Always entertaining Los Angeles blog Superfluous Juxtaposition calls our attention to InkaVote mascot Dots, his website and his poem. Well, we're here to tell you that, adorable though he may be, Dots is a bad, bad puppy. It's great that the County Clerk's office has spent so much time and money publicizing their mascot as a way to bring attention to their new voting system, but maybe that time and money would've been better......