I've heard about border agents checking laptops, but I have to say, I've never seen it done. Granted I've only traveled outside the US twice in the last two years, but still you'd think if this was all that common at least one person on two full 747s would have been checked, especially given that many people carry laptops these days.

I hate "memorials" because they're tacky and so melodramatic.

When I was earning my masters, a girl was hit by car on campus, and her friends built an overly large memorial on the sidewalk, near the site, including a giant sign reading "SLOW DOWN!!! YOUR CAR KILLED OUR FRIEND!" Of course the irony of blocking the sidewalk, and thus causing people to walk in the street was apparently lost on these people.

Recently in my town a guy on a bike got hit by car. Which of course lead to a ghost bike and giant signs reading "We ARE traffic!" Watching the bicyclists ride, they regularly disobey the traffic laws. Apparently traffic laws only should be enforced when it's convenient. Yeah, it's a tragedy that someone got killed, but to reflexively blame the car, is absurd.

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I went to SIU, and I can't say I'm surprised the College Republicans did this. In recent years, they went from be a relatively normal college political club to being filled with whack jobs. The recently brought David Horowitz on campus, ironically, to talk about the lack of conservatives on campus. And it seems like there as another recent publicized "faux pas" by that crew.

They're embarrassing us Salukis.

First Iron Man kills Captain America, now this. Isn't Iron Man essentially becoming an American fascist? It would be interesting they turned him into a villain, but more of a plausible villain that sadly some people would identify with, like Dick Cheney.

@10 XIAOSQUARED

Glad to see people can be racist against their own race.

@38:

Have to try them out sometime. Chicago style is best.

@#20 MIKELOTUS

Yeah. A NY/NJ place has to sell bland floppy garbage to stay in business.

Coming from the midwest to California, I can say that California has the worst pizza. It' not always bad. It's just never good. The best is just merely acceptable. (Get a decent pizza joint SF Bay!)

@#3 HOUNSKULL

Of course golems aren't "men of steel." They are made of dirt. Dirt and rocks. Well I guess you could make golem out of iron ore, since that's a type of rock, but that would just be silly.

Hell, my parents still use those glasses! (Alas, we only have the Vader-vs-Luke and the Ewok one.)

I think everyone at one point wanted one of these. Mostly because you wanted to be cool and "dangerous" enough to warrant actually be afraid of the cops or some other bad guys coming and shutting you down. After all, life is much more fun when They are out to get you.

Of course I never really understood how using one of these to avoid criminal prosecution would actually work. Seems like a pretty obvious case of destruction of evidence to me.

@12 PESTERJOHN

Never one to let the facts get in the way of a good story huh?

1. Grenada played the Taiwanese national anthem, not the US. Do you really believe that Grenada really is any position to rattle China's cage? Or are you exerting that Grenada is a puppet state of the US since they still owe the Gipper and/or for the reliance on Americans attending Club Med School?

2. Since when does the US government screen people for political views when attending a public event? (Don't even begin to bring up GWB's political rallies, since these are put on by the Republican party, not the federal government.)

@13 NOEN

Well the Good Guys just have to out organize the Bad Guys. It's just a tool. We machine that brought us the Berlin Airlift also brought us 9/11. What's you're point?

We've been set on this course of collapse for 28 years. Ever since Reagan, as Rush Limbaugh so ironically put it once, "gave us a debt we can never repay."

Sure we righted the ship a little bit under Clinton, but that just meant that we weren't borrow just to stay afloat. We still have, as of right now, a $9 trillion debt.

Of course we're told that national debt is irrelevant, but that just doesn't make any sense. Debt is relevant. It's relevant. It's relevant because people own loan you money when they think you can pay them back, and given the sheer amount of money that we owe, our regressive fiscal policies, and the amount of debt owed at all levels of our society, it's just a matter of time before it collapses.

Of course, I'm just talking down the economy because from any objective measure I want gay muslims to swim the Rio Grande, marry, and then blow up a grade school with a suitcase nuke.

We are so fucked.

@40

What would happen if athletes took off their jackets at the opening ceremony to reveal Free Tibet tee shirts? I almost believe that the army would open fire on them. Realistically, a lot of athletes will wear pro-Tibet garb throughout the two weeks. Will they be detained and harassed? Is China capable of resisting the temptation to repress someone who gets on their nerves? They have yet to demonstrate that kind of restraint.

What makes you think it's the Chinese that's going to be doing the repression? UK is voluntarily doing that for China already.

The Chinese don't have to do anything. The Western government will kowtow for because they don't want to anger their multinational corporate masters that are reliant on the cheap Chinese labor.

@19 Zuzu:

It's not equal outcome, it's ensuring a level playing field!

Of course we can predict that if it was to become known that someone in a competition had an undetectable unnatural advantage, that others would feel compelled to eliminate that advantage by engaging in the same practice.

To say that wouldn't happen is just absurd. We see this all the time. Baseball has/had rampant steroid use because a significant number of players were using, and others wanted to eliminate that advantage. People crowd around at the door to make sure they get in to some event. Do you honestly believe that people will sit back and say, "This person, and perhaps many others, have an advantage over me in this important competition that I could easily eliminate, but I will choose not to." It's absurd, because it isn't rational.

@21 Noen:
Yeah, Ayn Randians just aren't as much fun when they're not in giant armored suits carrying creepy little girls around in underwater cities.

I had to sign tthathe loyalty oath as part of my employment as a graduate student researcher at UCSC. I was shocked that I had to sign it. I wondered if it was even legal, but signed it anyway because I figured that if a situation ever came up where it could conceivably be enforced, we'd be having much bigger problems.

Then I thought, "Wait. I'm from Illinois. Sure, last time there was civil war, California and Illinois were on the same side, but what about the next one? Could I be forced to fight against my home state? Or would I pull a Robert E. Lee, and violate my oath, and side with my home state?"

Dilemmas. Dilemmas.

@SMONKEY #5

If you notice, the bouncers running the velvet ropes for the separate security lines are actually contractors under the employment of the airlines. The TSA has nothing to do with it.

@ANTINOUS #6

It's elitist per se because it's not egalitarian. Its preferential treatment for people with more cash. Is it wrong? Not really, because they're just get the same treatment faster. Its not like we're talking about lifeboats on a sinking ship or anything like that.

FYI: If you really want to go through the security lines faster. Get flagged for extra security. Express lines all the way.

@ BOLIVAR13 #3

I suspect the schwag was actually a gift certificate for a year of Clear, and Anil simply cashed in the certificate and submitted all the stuff he needed to.

This why I love Bjork. She does exactly what she wants to.

Shades of Eisenhower.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

This world in arms is not spending money alone.

It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.

The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities.

It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals.

It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement.

We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat.

We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people.

@ROSSINDETROIT

Obviously you've never met a Ween fan.

@14 MBIRDSONG:

Dude. Chill out man.

The cop's reaction was way disproportionate to the perceived offense. When was the last time you started yelling a complete stranger than force against them because they used a word that isn't even an insult?

You think he should be given a medal? Well apparently the Baltimore Police don't, given that BPD Spokesman, Sterling Clifford said, "The entire incident raised red flags for all of the members of the command staff who watched the video."

Unless your medal is little red flags like those they give out in totalitarian states, I don't think anyone else believes he deserves one.

I also really like you bringing out the old canard that a democracy isn't a republic. They're not two different things. You should have learned that in civics class dude. A democracy is a form a government that derives its power from the governed, through elections. A republic is a form of government whose head is elected, as opposed to say a monarchy where the head of government is determined by birth.

And just one more thing man. I'm also 31, so I want you know this comes only from love. You are a bitter small old man at 31, but I suspect from your comments you always were.

Well I guess this explains the seven heads of rat king in The Nutcracker.

@28

No, she very pointed hasn't repented.

She said, "If I knew then what I know now, I would have voted differently." Which is a VERY DIFFERENT thing to say. Especially given then general belief that her vote was motivated out of political hedging. (i.e. If the war goes well, She's a hero. If the war goes badly, she'd be insulated since she wasn't the only one who voted for it.) Her statement is tantamount to me saying, "If I knew then what I know now, I wouldn't have bet $100 on the Patriots to win the Super Bowl."

It's a cynical ploy.

She's too smart to have been duped in to war by the transparent case given by the incompetents in the White House;. She's WAY too smart for that.

@burns!

I have to got there in april, it will be interesting to see if it is. Of course, I'm already planning to setup a proxy so that I'll be unencumbered.

@MOTISBEARD

Yes, he will fix the PATRIOT Act. Yes, he will close gitmo. Yes, he will end the war.

@automatt: Uhh... Atari?

I had that game! Double my marble collection! Had some pretty wonky white marbles though. They were mostly round. Mostly. Many had some sort of grove in them. That's what I really remember about the game. That, and inventing my own versions that used more than just white and yellow marbles.

Also, does the ET boardgame count as a video game knock off? Because it was pretty crappy board game as well. (A three sided die? Oh come on! :) )

Reminds me of this story I heard on NPR recently about the immigration and race in the United States. Specifically about "whites" versus "non-whites." In the beginning, "white" meant Anglo-Saxon. Everyone else wasn't. Eventually, they extended it to the western Europeans, except the Irish. Then the Irish. Then the eastern Europeans. Then the southern Europeans.

They specifically talked about, and to, Greek-Americans, that at one time were "not white," and then became "white." The general theme of the story was about how throughout the years the "whites" would fret over the "non-whites" coming in, and then they'd change the definition of "white," and then in the constant irony of immigration in the USA, the "new whites" if you will, started fretting about the "non-whites."

You won't find a better argument that race is a social construct than the history of "whiteness" in the United States.

Since when does someone have to "respect established business models?" What? I'm sorry, but if your business model sucks, it's your own fault.

My business model is to stand of the street corner and have everyone that passes me to give me $20. What? What do you mean you won't do that? What do you mean "That's essentially panhandling?" You're not respecting my business model! How dare you! This, means war!

*sigh*

@krisjohn but this is about data export. As far as I know, twitter doesn't have an import or export capability. Especially not a generic import utility, since twitter is limited to what? 256 characters? Also, a twitter export would be nothing more than one big timestamped file. A really trivial export format is all that's needed.

Blogs on the other hand have become more complicated with permalinks, tags, comments, comment threads, posts, and the like.

Really though. Isn't this what XML is/was supposed to save us from?

I still want to save up a 100 coupons and then demand my penny. Many of them do say in black and white right on them "cash value 1/100 cents."

@#4. The starbucks is now closed. It closed last summer. The cafe is still there. It's just no longer branded starbucks. I don't know if starbucks still owns it or not though.

From a design perspective, these are horrible signs. Dimitris Deligannis's uses the wrong skull, and nanotechnology only marginally has anything to do with atoms, especially since the Bohr atom symbol has been used for years to mean "atomic power/radiation" Confusion!

Sharmin Farjana's also looks like an atom, or perhaps Saturn.

Chris Paul and Guilermo Espinosa Hernadez both use the -9 exponent which requires you to know what exactly that means. Good warning signs are obvious, like "man engulfed in flames."

Mike Abbott's looks so much like the standard warning/attention symbol, it's doubtful anyone would notice that it's not actually just a normal warning symbol.

Hernandez, Ansari, and Farjana's all use the latin N, which I believe is considered bad form, because you try to avoid any language/culturally specific symbols in international signs.

Shirely Gibson's is two clever by half.

Mary Schrider's is way to impractical to print, and what's up with all the embedded question marks. Kypros Kyprianou's is also impractical, but refreshingly better than Schrider's craptastic entry. Shiabel's is also too busy, but less so in comparison.

Nick Sterjov's shouldn't have made the cut, since it's crappy version of Nigel Keam's buckyball. (Why two buckyballs? Did they only have 15 entries?)

Austin's looks too much like a road.

Kudos to Maani for creating an image that says "small."
Creely's on the hand says, "implosion."

Kudos(?) to Foreman for creating a distinct symbol for nanotech that is absolutely meaningless ala the radiation and biohazard symbols.

I'd say Foreman's edges out Maani's because the symbol is bolder and easier to see at a distance than Maani's.

My suggestion: International Safety Man melting into a puddle of grey goo.

@#20:

The rationale for the war and when the troops should come home is irrelevant to what rock band is going on Operation Rock The Casbah.

(Now there's a song that ought to be covered on this tour.)

@lizardman

Umm... The TSA says no EIGHT year-old is on the no-fly list. This kid is FIVE.

I think someone owes the TSA an apology.

My favorite post-Wall moment was seeing the double roll of bricks that marked where the wall once stood, and then seeing that row of bricks cut right through a Starbuck's
http://flickr.com/photos/jonathankoren/1024050833/

Well now at least it really looks like he's playing other people's music and calling himself a musician.

@1: I always thought the idea was that they were gathering evidence as in "Is this the voice you heard?" The words themselves are irrelevant, the identification of the voice is what is. It's not like the police are, even on tv, saying "Read this," then the suspect reads the paper aloud saying, "I am going to kill you all." And the police say, "He just threatened us. Taze him!" (Well, maybe Chief Wiggum would do that, but let's be reasonable, and even then I bet Officer Lou would have something to say about it.)

@8: That's what I thought as well. I have a feeling this judge has gone off the reservation and is going to get smacked pretty hard on appeal.

Wasn't this on Futurama?

@3

I'm sure puberty sucks just as hard, but in a somewhat different way.

@8:

You have a mistaken idea on just what "public domain" means. Distributing your widely and without cost does not make it public domain. The work is still your intellectual property.

By your logic, everything on on over the air television is "public domain" because it's distributed for no cost to everyone with a device that can receive the signals.

If only J. Edgar was alive today. He may have been able to carry out his wet dream.

I can help but think that making a big deal out of this intersection of shelves in a bookcase is like Falwell's "Tinky-Winky is gay," or the priest in the Little Mermaid gets a boner.

Two words: Pat Boone

@ANECHOIC

"Oy veh" is right. They hate us for a whole slew of reasons. From we're infidels in Saudi Arabia, to our support for Israel, to our support for corrupt totalitarian regimes in the Middle East[*] to our cultural hegemony. For anyone to pick their favorite beef and say "THIS is the One True Reason(tm) why they hate us," is being overly simplistic.

[*] With regards to Middle Eastern totalitarian regimes, do we REALLY want a popularly chosen government in all of these nations? The fact is, we don't want a democratic Saudi Arabia. Sure the Saudi family are a bunch of decadent sons of bitches, but they like us, which is more than we can say about the opposition.

Dems under Reid roll yet again. Film at a 11.

Sadly they don't list this band I saw in Santa Cruz, "Captain Arab and The Taliband". Also, "Ima [Fucking] Gymnast" is totally lame, since there's already "Ima Robot." Lame and Unoriginal.

@noen

While plenty of groups use "confessionals" for blackmail, the Catholic Church doesn't. I can't think of a single instance where a priest has betrayed the confidence of the confessional, or even threatened to. The clergy and the lay both take the confidence of the confessional very seriously.

I just don't know what part I like the best.

@15

You're right about the crying wolf part. For over 40 years the most vocal activists have thrown the word "fascist" around at everything. It just became part of the standard litany of name calling (e.g. "Racist fascist sexist corporatist lying murdering regime! How dare you expand your hospital!") It became an empty word. Now when confronted with a group that actually does have fascist tendencies (e.g. concentration of unchecked power, support for torture, militant foreign policy, questioning the loyalty of those that disagree, promoting the idea a vague unseen perpetual threat, a conflation of private and public interests), the word is meaningless. To use the word, no matter how appropriate, is to immediately look like raving lunatic, since only raving lunatics have used that word.

You're also right about people wanting things easy. People are lazy. As long as they have all the creature comforts, they don't care. It's not a commentary on Americans, but rather just people in general. Bread and circuses, have become Big Macs and iPods.

@ken hansen

The infrastructure of the United States is aging, and needs replaced. We have old bridges and decaying roads. We have power grid on the east coast that's pretty much the same one that Tesla installed. We have a railroad system that James Howard Kunstler put it at TED, "that Romania would be ashamed of." Yeah, it's incredibly expensive, but that's not a reason not to do it.

This whole idea that somehow the US has unique issues when it comes to broadband penetration is facetious. In WaPo article, Canada was listed as having an average speed of four times more than the US. Canada is also spread out. What's the excuse there? Finland, Norway, Sweden, they all beat the US.

The population density issue is a red herring. You don't have to wire up the Rocky Mountains and the Great Plains at the same density as the coasts. You only have to wire up the people.

Your comment that people aren't clamoring for more speed is dead on though. However, I believe people aren't because of the mistaken belief that they're getting the best possible service at the best possible price. Most people also believe that the US cellular network is state of the art. It's not. We have horrible phones, and slow data rates compared to... well pretty much every place else on the planet. Our broadband is slower and more expensive as well.

So we've reached a point where the major broadband companies won't invest in infrastructure and continue to raise prices. Japan had leadership and policies to encourage innovation and competition. The United States, notably doesn't. Thus, we've fallen behind.

@zipster

Your dad rocks.

@5 Great catch Stephen! Of course he unplugged the speaker from his laptop just prior to moving the camera. *eyeroll* I thought that it was strange to take the camera off the mount prior to stopping recording, or at least not editing that part out. I suspect that it was an excuse to reveal the speaker wasn't plugged in, as a kind of wink and the audience.

I immediately thought "magnet" as well, but the table has a divider that partitions the tabletop into two halves. A magnet would have to pass through this divider. Granted there could be a hole in the divider, but I suspect something simpler.

@5: What the hell is my money doing in your house Bill? *punch*

@6: Given that a lot of high finance is speculation, there tends to be many self-fullfilling prophecies. If everyone believes the USD is on the verge of collapse, then it is. If everyone thinks the USD is fundamentally strong then it is.

This isn't to say that there isn't real data to back up either of these assertions, I'm sure you could make an argument for both, but what matters is the zeitgiest.

Well at least it's coke machine and not one that sells used panties. That would be a bit awkward when your would-be rapist decides to insert some money and you have take off your panties and give them to him.

Of course a vending machine shimming and shaking before dispensing the goods would look right in place in a Bettie Boop cartoon.

Why would I be disemvowelled? I rightful criticised Paul Krassner for being woefully ignorant of the facts, provided counter evidence, and then Paul Krassner issued a retraction because he agreed that he was wrong.

WTF?

I like Reagan on the $1 million bill. It reminds me of William Gibson's sprawl stories with hyperinflation and people carrying around $100,000 bills with Ed Meese's picture on them.

Anyway, we all know the Cult of the Gipper wants to
put him on the $10.

@NOEN

I know it's a faux pas to follow up my own post, but that quote you attributed to me about "activists in this country going to extreme[s]," wasn't even from me. In fact, I don't even know where that quote came from, because it's certainly not on this page.

@NOEN

Since you called me out, I'll ask you what I always ask with every conspiracy theory: Why would The Man do this? What threat is there to The Man about advocating for more funding for HIV/AIDS research? Why her? Someone no one outside the NYC AIDS activist and public health communities have even heard of?

From my days of staying up in my mom's basement, surrounded by my action figures kept pristine in their original boxes, and maturbating to Gillian Anderson while watching reruns of the X-Files, I learned one thing. In order to have decent dark consperacy theory, you have to have a motive, and there's none here.

Until someone can provide a motive on why she should be singled out from everyone else that is registered Democratic, I call bullshit.

First off no one silenced her. She silenced herself, and oh yeah, to paraphrase Arthur Dent, this must be some definition of "silenced" that I was previously unware of, since if she really was afraid of The Man, she wouldn't be blabbing about it to Newsday, and then talking about her resolve to continue to do exactly what it is she's been doing.

Second, why would you send three cars full of people to tail a single person. Now if you were going to box in the car, kidnap the driver, and then disappear them, sure. You need lots of cars and guys, but simply to follow? No. That doesn't make any sense.

This whole thing reeks of "let's tell people how bad the Bush Adminsitration is." Yeah. They're bad. Yes, they're thugs. Yes, they're cryptofacists. But you're not helping by manufacturing stories.

I haven't read anything this perposterous since Andrea Dworkin's story of being gang raped by the staff at a Paris hotel in 1999.

Damn. Where's a terrorist nuke when you need one?

Maybe they should care about Tom Clancy books. I remember the White House saying after 9/11, "No one would have suspected someone would turn airliners into flying bombs." That's not entirely true. Tom Clancy did. In fact crashing an airliner into the capitol occurs at the end of _Sum_of_All_Fears_. Perhaps the TSA should detain anyone reading Tom Clancy because they're obviously using his books to get ideas.

Now, I have to catch a flight. Good thing I brought the Anarchist Cookbook to read on the way!

Granted it didn't have the photo, but my friend did this 10 years ago this week(!). Even got 15 minutes of 'net fame for it.

http://web.archive.org/web/19980628095817/http://www.worstoftheweb.com/classic/102097.html

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'm n fn f th Bsh dmnstrtn nd thr bltntly fcst plcs, bt ftr wtchng ths vd, dn't s wht th dl s.

Th rv stnds tsd th hrng rm nd thn blck cptl plc ffcr sys h cn't ntr. (f nly th ffcr ws wht, w cld hv clmd rcsm.) Th rv bgns t whn bt hw h "ws n ln." Th rv s dfntly spkng ld, s h's th nly prsn y cn hr clrly n th vd prr t th tkdwn.

Wht prcptts th tkdwn? t crtnly pprs tht th rv trd t brsh pst th cps nd nt th hrng rm. Shvng pst cp s ssltng plc ffcr. t lwys hs bn, nd t wll gt y thrwn t grnd n n nstnt, whch s xctly wht hppnd -- srt f.

Th rv s shvd t th grnd, bt nt vrly vlntly. 'v sn tkdwns n th strt hll f lt mr vlnt thn tht. ('m thnkng th ld mn tht ws bt n NL ftr Ktrn.) Cllng ths, "ftbll tckl" s grss mschrctrztn. tckl s whn smn cms rnnng p jmps n smn nd shvs thm t th grnd. Tht ddn't hppn hr by ny strtch. t lkd lk stndrd plc tkdwn, prhps vn mr rstrnd n snc h bvsly wsn't grt thrt.

Wht hppnd whn th rv ws dwn n th grnd nd th cps wr syng "stp rsstng rrst" nd th rv ws syng, "'m nt rsstng" dn't knw. Th flm dsn't rcrd tht s th cps r blckng th cmr. Th rv dfntly wsn't thrwng pnchs nd kckng, tht 'm sr. Mvng hs hnds n n ttmpt t prvnt hndcffs/plstc-ts frm bng pt n hm, myb. dn't knw nd nthr ds nyn ls hr.

Dd h brk hs lg, gss. Dd th cps ntnd t brk hs lg? Nt chnc. t crtnly lks lk frk ccdnt.

@#36 by Nck: Mkng physcl cntct wth nyn wtht thr prmssn hs lwys bn sslt, rgrdlss f cp r cvln.

Pl Krssnr nds t gt t bt mr. Ws Clrk hs bn tllng tht stry bt hw Rmfld t. l. ws ntnt n nvdng rq rght ftr 9/11 fr yrs nw. Hr's trnscrpt f hm n th Nwshr bck n Jnry f 2004 tllng th sm stry, nd t ws ld stry vn thn.

Tryng t bsh gy tht's bn spkng t gnst th wr frm dy n, s nt spkng t gnst th wr rly ngh? Nw tht's bng n sshl.