Year: 2007
SCIENCE DEPT.
Win $20,000,000 From Google!
Want to win $20 million from Google? All you have to do is land a small spaceship on the moon and send back pictures. No, not in a video game. I’m talking about a real spaceship on the real moon. It’s the Google Lunar X Prize. (Hat tip: Philipp Lenssen) Read more
CREEPING TOTALITARIANISM DEPT.
Fear and Loathing At the Airport
The Transportation Security Agency is training people to look carefully at people’s faces to detect signs of fear or anxiety that might indicate a terrorist. Fear and anxiety at the airport? In the security lines? My God, do you think they’ll find anybody like that? How about rage? If I’m trying to get through the… Read more
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT DEPT.
Working On a Fake Job
Our financial information research company is going to be temporarily adding 15 top tier legal minds to our staff in order to conduct an intensive due diligence and legal research project in Washington DC. We are hiring individuals who are independent and can work from their home office and local law libraries yet can still… Read more
CREEPING TOTALITARIANISM DEPT.
The Taser Problem in a Nutshell
The increased use—and abuse—of Tasers by police has been the subject of some recent controversy. Kip Esquire sums it up perfectly: A big part of the problem with tasers is that they were originally marketed as a substitute for guns, but have become a substitute for exertion. Tasers are, increasingly, not used to save lives… Read more
ECONOMICS DEPT.
Those Other People Should Pay Their Employees Better
Radley Balko discusses the hypocrisy of the living wage movement. Read more