What a concept: Shower Shock Caffeinated Soap.
I’ve hardly touched caffeine in twenty years, partly because I flatter myself that I don’t need it, but mainly because I don’t need the sugar that often comes with it. But, y’know, I’m almost tempted to try this. If only it were available in peppermint.
Later: Dan Pink says it doesn’t work.
Now showing (in Flash) at Electronic Frontier Foundation Action Center: Tinsel Town Club. Thanks and a tip of the mouse-ears to David Mankins for the link.
2006: That copy is gone, but here’s another.
My opinion has been that it is largely unnecessary to trade civil liberties for security, and that the best security measures — reinforcing the airplane cockpit door, putting barricades and guards around important buildings, improving authentication for telephone and Internet banking — have no effect on civil liberties. Broad surveillance is a mark of bad security.
. . . I’ve decided not to weigh in on any of the issues, and instead to write about why I’m not.
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Really, this boils down to a matter of courtesy. I’m long since tired of ignorant rants about . . . matters of importance to me. So I’m doing my part to help beautify America by keeping my trap shut when I can’t say something whose factual foundations I’m sure of as well as which I feel passionately about. Ire is not sufficient justification for any remark beyond “I’m angry”.
Return to Sender is a surreal strip with a sense of humor. I’ve no idea yet where it’s going.
Got paid yesterday. Was tempted to buy a quarter-gigabyte memory card, but resisted, reminding myself that only once have I put a serious strain on my box’s existing memory: in running an experimental search program without any intelligent memory-management at all.
Dan Kohn writes: “It is shocking that there is not more of an outcry over the unlawful detainment of radioactive ‘dirty bomb’ suspect Jose Padilla.” The old bleat that “the Constitution is not a suicide pact” is brought up, and that’s the hook for my comment.
Lincoln may have said it first; it fits Lincoln’s pattern – a plausible homily which, if examined closely in the light of real history rather than fairytales, proves (if anything) the opposite of the proposition in support of which it was invoked.
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