Year: 2008
HOMELAND SECURITY DEPT.
Randazza Meets the TSA
Marc Randazza lives an interesting life: They open the bag, and see that I’m traveling with exactly one t-shirt, one toothbrush, one pair of socks, a pair of underwear, and 50 porn movies, which they lay out on the table one by one. Whole story here. Read more
CREEPING TOTALITARIANISM DEPT.
Privacy Thieves on the Subway
A few days ago the Washington Times had an editorial about the new random bag search policy their police are using on the Metro subways. It was mentioned in Flex Your Rights email message I just received, and while I normally don’t jump at stories this old, the cluelessness is so astonishing I had to say… Read more
OPERATIONS DEPT.
Typealyze This
The folks behind the Typealyzer web site claim to be able to analyze the text of a blog and determine things about the personality of the author, and presumably the readers as well. I ran it on Windypundit and here’s how it describes us: ISTP – The Mechanics The independent and problem-solving type. They are… Read more
INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS DEPT.
Pirates of the Somali Coast
A couple of posts ago, I asked why the navies of the world aren’t trying harder to stop the Somali pirates. Yesterday, I had dinner with a friend of mine who follows world events more than I do (and who I’m trying to talk into co-blogging) and he had an answer that explains a lot.… Read more
CONNECTIONS DEPT.
That’s D-r-a-u-g-h-n
This whole Interweb thing continues to amaze me. Last night I get home and there’s a Facebook friendship invitation from a guy I knew in grade school. That was thirty years ago. My first thought, I swear, was that I must have really made an impression on him because he still knew how to spell… Read more