Scheier saying I told you so: "Only two things have made flying safer [since 9/11]: the reinforcement of cockpit doors, and the fact that passengers know now to resist hijackers." And: "Only one carry on? No electronics for the first hour of flight? I wish that, just once, some terrorist would try something that you can only foil by upgrading the passengers to first class and giving them free drinks."
- mike bingaman
Slavoj Žižek: "The "Western Buddhist" meditative stance is arguably the most efficient way for us to fully participate in capitalist dynamics while retaining the appearance of mental sanity."
- mike bingaman
"Sprint Nextel provided law enforcement agencies with its customers' (GPS) location information over 8 million times between September 2008 and October 2009." Yow.
- mike bingaman
"Sprint Nextel provided law enforcement agencies with its customers' (GPS) location information over 8 million times between September 2008 and October 2009." Yow.
- mike bingaman
Up for a limited time and not particularly good, actually. Apparently Christian Bök (not Oulipo, I don't know why they're even talking to him) went through the dictionary 5 times by hand to find all the words that only use only each vowel and it took him 'a summer.' That's what computers are for, dummy.
- mike bingaman