Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- How to Spot Fake Smiles (Spoiler Alert) – I got 11 of 20 correct. D’oh!
- You Might Be In Serious $%#@ For Refusing To Be TSA Screened – Okay, I guess that “civil penalties” claim was legit (if still dodgy in principle). Yeesh.
- Brick-road-laying machine – Very cool.
- ‘Naked scanners’: Lobbyists join the war on terror | Washington Examiner – “But this is government we’re talking about. A program or product doesn’t need to be effective, it only needs to have a good lobby.”
- The middle size of the universe: John
- Department of Defense to Service Members: Homos Get Half – Rrg. Just plain stupid and prejudiced policy-making.
- : TSA encounter at SAN – The initial encounter, premised on the idea that nobody has a “right” to fly, so whatever security the TSA chooses to impose is their privilege to do so, is true enough. The later reported crap makes absolutely no sense.
- The Biggest Star Wars Plot Hole, Explained By Science | Cracked.com – “Only Imperial Stormtroopers are so precise …”
- What professional journalists would ask Bush about September 11 – I doubt we’ll see these kind of questions asked, except by historians.
51 view(s)
1. 14/20.
8. I remember having a discussion with Dave about stormtroopers’ aim back in the late 70s. We decided, as I recall, that they can be precise when targeting subsystems of a slow sandcrawler. I am not sure what the article refers to when it says they are “missing slow-moving targets.”