My thoughts on The Vibrator Incident
24 Oct 2011 7:55pm GMT The internet (or at least my small corner of it) is buzzing (and tweeting, and probably plussing) today about a “personal” note left by a TSA screener who found a woman’s vibrator during a standard luggage screening and handwrote a note on the official screening slip. If you haven’t heard about it yet, I think [...]
Conspiracy theorists should be smarter
23 Oct 2011 11:39am GMT It’s downright shameful for a respectable (more or less) news source like BoingBoing to get a story so blatantly wrong. The name of the post is Densely-linked cluster of 147 companies control 40% of world’s total wealth, but even a casual read of the material quoted by the article shows that’s completely wrong. If you [...]
99% certain…
11 Oct 2011 9:11pm GMT When I first became aware of Occupy Wall Street, I thought it was laughable. A group of people with no clear common goal, staging a protest against anything and everything. How is that going to accomplish anything? But it’s not only lasting, it’s spreading. Contrary to my initial belief, maybe disorganized unfocused unhappiness with the [...]
G+ update
11 Oct 2011 8:54pm GMT My petition failed. Google insists I use some name other than Wolfger to identify myself on my profile. I initially said that if I lost the appeal I would do so, but that is before I grasped the extent to which the Google Profile affects me. It would not only change my identity on G+, [...]
Before you ask her out…
5 Oct 2011 7:32pm GMT …make sure she prefers croissants over bagels. Filed under: correlations, just for fun, statistics