It's Scoutmaster Lumpus returned from the future!

http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h264/jon2guevarra/Camp_Lazlo/lumpus.jpg

Heh, why when "I" was 14, I was making Jacobs Ladders with old oil furnace transformers.

Kids these days...

Computer technology is moving so rapidly that a sharp line between statistical and intelligence systems is bound to be obliterated.

I like this line, a LOT. Spot on.

I've long maintained a sense of calm over these concerns and stories by reminding myself and others that the larger the haystack, the more hidden the needle.

Data is not clean and meaningful simply because it is data. The more you collect, the more spurious and junk filled it is.

That's not to say it is a harmless pile. There will be just as much opportunity for false positives against innocents as there will be for someone to find something out about you that you don't want know.

In short, it's just a [big] mess, and it's growing...

> Can we have a unicorn ...

Quit being such pussys. This rates a CareBear at best.

uh, you don't want to set that bar for quality using cloned Chinese cars...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5SRyG6UR2A

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F06LjugtIUo

"There are two of them that are shaped like the male private area,” said Bailey

??? That doesn't look like a garage to me...

news to me. thnx

Go to the effort to put web feet on Kermit and overlook hooves for Piggy?

Unnecessary at this point...

I have no desire whatsoever to carry a laptop thru an airport at all anymore.

> What's next, the "Elmo Knows Where You Live" doll?

Elmo knows what you did last summer

#7, sadly true.

#8, you beat me to it d@mmit!

Old Man's War is the best piece of science fiction that I have ever read, period. It is the first in a series of four books followed by The Ghost Brigades, The Last Colony, and The Sagan Diary. I enjoyed it so much that I am holding back reading ...Brigades until ...Colony is out in paperback so that I can read them straight through.

It is an engrossing, intelligent book that drew me back into reading. I am currently biding time reading The Android's Dream as it is a standalone work [to my knowledge] and it is equally entertaining in an off the beaten bath way. Snarky. Fun.

Bernard Knight has a series of books that will take you as far back in the past as Scalzi takes you into the future if you require or desire a respite.

John Sladek has many humerous fiction that fans of Scalzi should enjoy.

> Link that isn't boingboing'ed to death:

Thank you

#49, Google much?

here ya goes
http://www.shinyshiny.tv/2005/06/memory_stick_ea.html

The sad reality here is that any attempt at obfuscation of your data, or traveling with an OS empty laptop will simply draw more attention to yourself as someone with something to hide.

"Sometimes I wonder if it'd be more feasible to get as many names as possible on the list as to make it useless than it would to get rid of the list."

I think we're there...

Yes, my left eye is an astigmatic contact, weighted to stay oriented.

I'm with Tavie. Ya'll a bunch of lightweights.

Kind of protypical "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow" 'ish. I could dig it.

We can has a thrust vectoring 2

Raptor F22 -
http://youtube.com/watch?v=UnU1xyBCte0

> 21 - You know what would be even better? 2 Girls 1 Cup with subtitles in Kitteh!

I can has a poo?

Pleeeze Pleeeze Pleeeze, someone make a LOLCat version :)