> Be the first with laser brake lights.

I'll take 3 thanks. One of them for my motorbike. If the driver behind is already blind / not looking surely using an additional sensory adaptor; by adding say, intense blinding heat, would be an added safety element?

@ #8

> 2. Blond mop wig unconvincing due to dark body hair.

That is the only thing I noticed, probably should consider Nair or shaving. A little moisturizer on the hands would probably be good too....

@ #2

I think you're thinking at a level way beyond where they're thinking....

The worrying thing is, given the wide harvesting methods to source the names; this list will never shrink but is likely to expand exponentially.

Also as a foreigner, it is unpleasant to watch this hubris based on a notion of US security can be built on a database. We have some excellent examples elsewhere to show it is a flawed approach to national security. Anyone want to visit East Germany with me?

Despite having a large percentage of the country working in the pursuit of national security; it fell. As did the regimes based on this notion in Albania, Romania, etc.

I'm with #14 on this.

Post #13 is very offensive.

Viva Palestine; Viva Israel; hope it works out in my lifetime.

A book never needs a power source, is easily stored with full access and no restraints at anytime. I don't see the benefit in e-readers other than for publishers; who will reduce their distribution costs significantly.

Books do not have an analogy with audio or video - in that the broadcaster AND the receiver requires power to operate. Crystal radios and photographic prints excepting - the consumer needs an energy source to enjoy them.

@ #5

Surely 109 balloons....

If he sent it up part of the way suspended under a balloon, he could do it. It would concentrate his fuel load for the hard part - up where the atmosphere is much thinner and his expanding CO2 would deliver that bit more velocity.

@ #6

Cellulose Biofuel is not even close to being a commercial proposition. We are currently stuck in space where we're about to switch from taking highly efficient if anciently formed fuel sources from the ground and replacing them with someones food. How does that make sense?

To whom does it make sense? This takes the benefits of the Green #Revolution and shoves them up an exhaust system.

Consider the guy in the SUV driving to the supermarket to buy bread using Agrofuels because of the cost of fossil fuels or the guy who can't earn enough to pay for bread for his family - due to the upward price rises of the raw materials (his food) consumed in agrobased biofuels?

It's a nonsense and as long as there are people starving from lack of food, the subsidy of biofuels should stop.

@ #7

I like this idea! It isn't likely - but wouldn't it be great for McDonalds? From sinner to healer in one step....

@ #9

Kerosene (Jet A1) is a very close cousin of diesel. The technical leap is not great between the two and Kero is often added to Diesel. I don't see your point.

@ 21 but to say that not all Spanish bullfighters us in 2008 and not all Spaniards were bullfighters in 1906...

Ah possibly; but it is true that all drunk Anglo Saxons are Scotch highlanders....

@ #4

Bribery eh? Even if it's a simple idea, well explained, even bribery doesn't work - my favourite example is stamps.com - $20 in free postage and $$$$ later they died.

After a quick spell in the special Rehab place Companies who've snorted huge amounts of Venture Capital go; they returned looking much better and even appeared on here: http://www.boingboing.net/2005/04/27/second-try-for-perso.html

@ Post 20

There is one here: http://www.btselem.org/English/Statistics/Casualties.asp

Not affiliated with the IDF.

@ Post 21

> You've proven my point - let the anti-Israeli parade begin.

No, you've started an anti-Israeli parade. Keep provocatively waving your flag from the sidelines, I'm certain others will line up to march by you.

I like flying now it is all so safe and everything....

As a result of EU laws you are not allowed bring "dangerous" items like nail clippers through the security screen.

Thankfully, in my nameless local Airport, just 10 feet from the Xray machine you can buy a nail clippers to replace the one they've just confiscated from you at the metal detector.

Of course it is just for our safety I'm sure....

This looks like a celebration of clutter. I would expect a designer to focus on the important elements and eliminate the important parts.

It is just an exercise in semiotic nonsense, signifying little and proving that an occupied life is not necessarily an interesting one.

It is a good idea to show the banality of life, but surely it is better to show the totality of the enterprise.

This fragment will not enlighten much beyond the guards lived normal lives part of the time. What about work time? What were the mechanisms to maintain the regime that allowed them "normality"?

On balance I think that the photos should be left alone. we should move the worlds focus to closer to the present. We need to stop current horrors and learn from the more recent catastrophes of politics like in Cambodia and Rwanda. These are more meaningful than atrocities of the past nearly 75 years ago.

The analysis of mechanisms of the totality of the enterprise should be examined to prevent the politics of institutional Ghettoisation and isolation permeating the present, if inadvertently through walling off of communities and collective punishments.

I like the handy card file for your contacts. It beats scrolling through a list on a tiny screen and calling the wrong "Steve".....