voting records, and USGS information would be nice too

i really think this has a lot to do with user base, while i mostly agree with you, i dont think most users think in terms of boolean values.

I think most people indeed understand the concept of a "yes/no" question.

works great in safari, hopeful the coming re-imagining of firefox's javascript engine will speed it up greatly. reminds me a lot of the java interactions in the lively kernel, only without the vector images. http://research.sun.com/projects/lively/