Monthly Archives: August 2005

stop that baby!

Meanwhile, back in the police state

Infants have been stopped from boarding planes at airports throughout the U.S. because their names are the same as or similar to those of possible terrorists on the government’s “no-fly list.”

I don’t have to make this stuff up, folks.

Justice, Cole Valley Style

So, what do _you_ do when you witness a hit-and-run? Leave a note? Curse under your breath? “Snap a photo and print posters for the whole neighborhood”:http://www.powazek.com/2005/07/000534.html? A little luck and a little technology helped Derek Powazek go straight for the posters, and I personally hope this is a prelude to a “transparent society”:http://www.davidbrin.com/tschp1.html.

Wonders of the Waters

I found this today. I had no idea it was possible, but perhaps we’ll work this into the Radcliffs’ visit to Michigan this fall!

p.s. Yes, I know, but it’s fun to pretend…. (and it’s not April, so I couldn’t use the April Foolishness category)