Wednesday, August 17, 2005

Keeping America Safe from puppeteers Okay, this one I understand. Bunch of  puppet freaks. I feel safer: Homeland Security vs. San Francisco Bay Area Puppeteers Guild. Mark Frauenfelder: Brian Stokes says: "I kid you not. My beloved San Francisco Bay Area Puppeteers Guild is under investigation by Homeland Security. According to their latest newsletter, its assets have been frozen ever since my friend and Treasurer Pam Brown resigned after 20 years and passed the miniscule nestegg to a new bank account a few months ago. The bank apologizes but legally can't do anything until Homeland Security determines this group of puppet fans and professionals is not planning to attack our country. "This is the Guild where Jim Henson met a young Frank Oz and Jerry Juhl back in the 1960s. Not long ago, I was President, and before that, Secretary. "But now our government thinks it's harboring terrorists." Link [Boing Boing] 8:10:44 AM     Categories: Keeping America Safe LiveJournal Keeping America Safe from 1-year-old children Baby: the other white terrorist! Babies on the no-fly list. Cory Doctorow: The government's no-fly list of suspected terrorists contains many common names held by non-terrorists from all walks of life, including many babies. Babies who have names similar to known terrorist aliases are being held up boarding airplanes until their parents can prove that the infants aren't terrorists. Sarah Zapolsky and her husband had a similar experience last month while departing from Dulles International Airport outside Washington. An airline ticket agent told them their 11-month-old son was on the government list.... Well-known people like Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., and David Nelson, who starred in the sitcom "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet," also have been stopped at airports because their names match those on the lists... The TSA has a "passenger ombudsman" who will investigate individual claims from passengers who say they are mistakenly on the lists. TSA spokeswoman Yolanda Clark said 89 children have submitted their names to the ombudsman. Of those, 14 are under the age of 2. Link (Thanks, Owlswan!) [Boing Boing] Note that children under 2 do not need a ticket to fly if they sit on an adult's lap. An unticketted child would never be flagged by the "don't fly list". In addition, once the question was raised the TSA claimed that their instructions are that no child under 12 should ever be checked. Somehow their own employees don't know this. 8:09:23 AM     Categories: Keeping America Safe LiveJournal

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radaR's LiveJournal   8:09AM PST Five. More. Days.. My entire department has been given the week after next off. This is on top of 14 of 15 days of regular personal vacation days, an extra week for exempt staff in my department, and 1 company floating holiday that I already have and am too retarded to figure out what to do with. By radarski@livejournal.com. Officially an ecovillain. I have now completely given up taking soda bottles back for the five cent deposit. I toss them in with the rest of the recycling plastic in the dumpster right here at the apartment complex, and lightning has not yet struck me down. By radarski@livejournal.com. Stick a fork in me, I think I'm done. Am I really done with my project that has made me feel like i was being beat with a stick? In time for a four day weekend? Is that actually the light at the tunnel, or an oncoming train? By radarski@livejournal.com. Kids these days!. Zork parody on a wiki. Cory Doctorow: A Uncyclopedia (parody of Wikipedia) user has created a Zork parody on the wiki, and many users are adding their own often hilarious turns and twists to the adventure. Examine Grue Man, you've really never played this game before, have you? The Grue devours you before you have a chance to scream. Start over Link (Thanks, Stuart!) [Boing Boing] I bet none of them even remember Addventure. By radarski@livejournal.com. I'm so tired. Working 60 hours per week for eight weeks, you can get as much done as working 40 hours per week for... eight weeks. I wish they told me that 100 hours and twelve weeks ago. By radarski@livejournal.com.