Unclear on the Concept

Lindsay Beyerstein links to an Ad Council ad that's apparently trying to encourage kids to be careful what they post online. You can see it for yourself here, but to save you time, Lindsay's description will do: The ad shows a girl called Sarah silently enduring public harassment from a series of progressively older and creepier strangers who have been reading her webpage. … [Read more...] about People May Be Reading This

Apparently, Senator John McCain has a MySpace page. Rather than using the boring default design, whoever built the page for McCain used a customized MySpace template that he got from Mike Davidson. Only problem is, he forgot to credit Mike, which is all Mike asks for if you want to use his template. Well, that wasn't the only problem. The web designer also left in the … [Read more...] about Hacking John McCain

"I didn't know the president would get bumped off. I thought maybe he would get wounded." According to this Reuters piece, that's Cutter Cash, age 44. He's talking about the movie Death of a President. … [Read more...] about Who Could Have Seen That Coming?

The oft-brilliant Jennifer has found another example of TSA cluelessness. Hawaii has suffered a stong earthquake which has knocked out power all over. Tourists are stuck there with nothing to do except be a burden to the troubled state. They want to leave, and local emergency workers would like them to leave. Fortunately, the airports have emergency power and are quite … [Read more...] about What Could Possibly Go Wrong During an Emergency?

Jennifer explains how to beat TSA security. As you might suspect, it's not very hard. … [Read more...] about How Math Could Help the Terrorists Win