Who Does the Iranian Government Represent, Really?

A very interesting editorial in the Manchester Guardian today is a plea to not judge the mood of the Iranian “street” based on the current Iranian administration of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. This little editorial is very worth reading to remind us how easy it is to base our understanding of events ina faraway country [...]

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Terrorists and Bears

There’s a recent post on Bruce Schnieir’s excellent security site, and I think it started as a SlashDot item, regarding designing a bear-proof trash can. As a guy who’se spent lots of time in the North Woods of Minnesota, outwitting hungry bears eyeing my food pack, I have great respect for bear intelligence and [...]

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Drop That Toothpaste, You Swine!

So somebody’s taken another swipe at us, or at our proxies, the Brits. So now toothpaste and contact-lens solution will have to be checked through in luggage and probably the duty-free perfume and champagne industry will be hobbled or destroyed. Too bad, I was beginning to think we had actually won the “war [...]

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And the Poor Meerkats Pay the Price

This item is beyond pathetic.
On August 2nd, 2006, a 9-year-old girl, in full view of her parents, climbs over a rock barrier at the Minnesota Zoo, reaches over another glass barrier, and starts bothering a family of meerkats in an exhibit. One of the meerkats gives her a much-deserved bite. Since meerkats are [...]

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