Found this excellent Slate article while wandering, which brings up an important point in the so-called 'War on Terror'--the enemy, in this instance, is inventive, flexible and fluid. Our government and our TSA agents are not. Who's going to win?

Yeah.

More to the point, while it doesn't come out and state it plainly, it infers heavily a truth ( Read more... )

To change my friggin' icons to winter ones. Also dumping a lot of Glee icons in at some point because I lub that show with a fierce devoted fervor.

But we move on.

Google strikes again, and this time, they do it in a really fantastic way. Want to send a postcard? Tell 'em who. They'll send one--only one, but still--to whomever you want. Yay ( Read more... )

So tonight, we've booked seventeen people into Arabian Breeze, for marvelous Lebanese food and the every-few-months, we-probably-should-see-'em, family interaction.

Joy.

In the meantime, via CrunchGear, comes this lovely gem.

pauldrake? No. Just no. You are not allowed--assuming you actually get the Nerf Vulcan--to fire it in the house. NOOOO ( Read more... )

So I got up this morning, jumped on SL for a quick round of find-the-cool-dances, and then limped out to the bus to take me on the morning's shopping excursion. I got way too much. Ordinarily, this wouldn't be a problem, but I had to carry it all home. Yaagh ( Read more... )