Doesn't this seem like a data management and delivery issue? Shouldn't our homeland security money be going to providing TSA workers with terminals that can find out information about a particular name? Here's an example of how such a process would work:

Let's say the name "Tuttle" is on the no-fly list.
A person named "Buttle" wants to fly.
Software determines that the flier might be the person on the no-fly list.

A TSA agent checks to see if Buttle has already been vetted. If they have been cleared, their photograph and state identification will show up in the database. They will be screened normally.

If they are not already in the database, they will require additional screening. A TSA agent will screen Buttle carefully, photograph them, and scan their identification into the kisok. All of this information will then be tied to the false match so the next time that Buttle comes through, they will have a way of telling that Buttle is not the person they seek.

If Buttle IS the person they seek, Homeland Security would have staff standing by to spot the matches, examine the uploading photograph and identification, and call in local law enforement to execute arrest warrants (or whatever). Maybe we would actually have TSA agents who are capable of arrest.

If you're going to have a bureaucracy, you should have one that operates correctly. If all those agents have are text-based green screens that only give a boolean go/no-go for a person based on a soundex of their name, we obviously aren't spending our security money in the right place.

I think that what Xeni is saying is that Tay Zonday is the blood diamond of the internet.

Minges Candy Store?

$400 worth of Minge candy?

The first time that I tried to leave this comment I got the "text entered was wrong" error.

A NASA press release

I found a bunch of good information by searching Google for plant-stress detection glasses, including some less than $30 versions.

Isn't that an Adam Green song?

There's no wrong way to wrestle a man with no legs, Just tell him you love him as he's crawling away.

Yeah! Yeah, it is!

My [RELATIVE REDACTED] was diagnosed with Alzheimers just last week. I mentioned this to a friend.

"They have a shot for that now. It clears it right up," he commented somewhat sarcastically.

"I think that's called potassium chloride," I replied, immediately regretting my words.

Apparently there is no problem providing armor for professional celebrities. Perhaps we should just make each soldier a celebrity -- if only for fifteen minutes at a time.

Perhaps those fifteen minutes could coincide with any particular fifteen minutes that they take fire.

Well, a wiser fellow than myself once said, sometimes you eat the mutant bear and -- much obliged -- sometimes the mutant bear well, he eats you.

Am I the only one to find the ad on that page extra hilarious? "Learn to survive in the kitchen with The Nut Gourmet"

For the record, my nuts are an excellent source of protein.

Yay, Hypercolor toilets! I can hear the conversation now:
"What temperature does brown mean?"
"It means don't sit there."