Year: 2009
Obama Derangement Syndrome – Part 5
I started to write something about this nonsense, but Rogier van Bakel did a better job of it than I would have. Read more
Shooting, Scanning, Geeking, Modeling
Too busy to write much, but here are a few random shots around the web: Radley Balko has a way with headlines. The whole post is worth reading. When you go through the TSA checkpoints at some airports, body image scanners can now check you for weapons…and see you naked through your clothes. If we… Read more
Apple’s Knowledge Navigator – 1987
I first saw this technology concept video about 20 years ago at a presentation at the National Center for Supercomputer Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Part of NCSA’s mission was to explore personal computing applications that required supercomputer-level processing at the time, but which would make sense in the future when everyone… Read more
Manufacturing Guilt in Louisiana
The amazing Radley Balko has just posted a story he uncovered about a couple of forensic experts working on a case for the state of Lousiana who apparently mutiliated a child’s corpse in order to frame a man for murder. Really. There’s video. The images are disturbing. Read more
Unrelated Stories: Photographing Cops
Via Nobody’s Business comes the news that our British cousins have made it illegal to take pictures of cops: From today, anyone taking a photograph of a police officer could be deemed to have committed a criminal offence. That is because of a new law – Section 76 of the Counter Terrorism Act – which… Read more