The TSA sent armed agents to two bloggers’ homes to force them to disclose their source for a document they blogged detailing new screening procedures. That sounds somewhat unsurprising, except: the document was sent out to every airport and airline in the country and other airports internationally, more than 10,000 recipients, and it wasn’t classified.
Frischling, a freelance travel writer and photographer in Connecticut who writes a blog for the KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, said the two agents who visited him arrived around 7 p.m. Tuesday, were armed and threatened him with a criminal search warrant if he didn’t provide the name of his source. They also threatened to get him fired from his KLM job and indicated they could get him designated a security risk, which would make it difficult for him to travel and do his job.
Wow. I feel safer.
30 December 2009 | no comments
PhotoSketch looks simply magic. Unbelievable. (via HN)
5 October 2009 | 1 comment
Ford hacks the tax code to bring a 25% tariff down to a 2.5% one.
Customs officials won’t discuss individual company’s strategies, but Stephen Biegun, Ford’s vice president for international governmental affairs, says the practice complies with the letter of the law. “We are free-traders, full stop.”
23 September 2009 | 1 comment
The New York Times featured this amazing profile of Jure Robic back in 2006, but it popped up on Hacker News today. This is one to definitely read.
23 September 2009 | Comments Off
In the spirit of this, this, this, and this (warning: painful idiocy), I present Dan Brown Rewrites My Ledger. Ahem.
Doublemint Gum – $0.25
Extra Bottle of Pingus (for homeless dude) – $799.99
Strunk & White – $9.95
Lighter Fluid – $3.77
Matches – $0.99
Golden Altar w/ Diamond Skulls – $100k
Golden Altar w/o Diamond Skulls – $76k
Norton Antivirus – $59.99
Two Chicks at the Same Time – $8,600
Rare Ed. Sidney Sheldon – $3
Balance: f.u.
23 September 2009 | 1 comment
Day 10 of the 30 day flight garners a great story about the sound design of Disneyworld.
17 September 2009 | Comments Off
My favorite line from an interesting profile of Baidu’s Robin Li:
By year-end the company will move to a new headquarters designed to resemble an enormous, long rectangular search box.
An enormous long rectangular building that looks like an <input>? *That’s* how you spend FU money, folks.
17 September 2009 | 3 comments