Daily Archives: 8/1/2007

Bugs Bunny, greatest banned player ever

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The exclusion of non-human players like Bunny is another shameful example of the long history of injustices done by baseball’s racist policies. That black and rabbit players could only play against white players in non-sanctioned exhibition matches deprived the game of some of the best talent to ever play, and from what we’ve seen, robbed scientists of a chance to better study phenonema with wide applicability to questions of physics that could have greatly benefited all residents of the earth, be they human or Leporidae.

Thanks Dan for the link.

You can watch it on Google Video.

Schneier on Security: Conversation with Kip Hawley

Bruce Schneier was invited to come to Washington to talk with Kip Hawley, head of the TSA. He’s currently putting up a five part article about those conversations on his blog. Part 1 Part 2 and Part 3. What we see is an agency which is trying to put on a better face without actually addressing any of the real concerns that people have. They want us to trust them, but they don’t wish to actually demonstrate that we can trust them. It also demonstrates that the TSA is very interested in behavioral profiling. Quote of the day:

Don’t forget, we see two million people a day, so we know what normal looks like.)

Addendum: Schneier asks about the 3 oz. limit for liquids, asking what’s to keep a terrorist from trying to smuggle a quart of some dangerous liquid on board. After all, if you accidently forget, they just confiscate this stuff and huck the liquid in the bin: they don’t immediately strip search you and put you on a watch list. So, a motivated terrorist could try, multiple times, to get such liquids past security, and given the effectiveness of screening, eventually succeed. Hawley’s response was that “If the TSO throws your liquids in the trash, they don’t find you a threat.”

Well, if that’s the case, then why do they bother throwing your liquids in the trash at all? If I’m not a threat, how about letting me keep my 12 oz. bottle of Paul Mitchell shampoo?

Late night hacking…

I was tired and cranky all day.  My wife is asleep, but I’m hacking on my laptop in the dark.  How lame is that?

This is really just a test to make sure I’ve got the feedburner problem ironed out.  Maybe now I can sleep.