Guardian:
The US marine corps has been forced to call up its reserves for compulsory service in Iraq and Afghanistan because it has not been able to find enough volunteers - a reflection of the strain the two wars are putting on America’s armed forces.
The marines’ involuntary call-up, seen as a “back-door draft” by Pentagon critics, [...]
me: You’ve also got that…that…raw guacamole?
roth: Avocado.
me: Yeah, avocado.
In case you were wondering, some git pwned my web host. Other than that, things have been very stable.
Best quote this week:
TSOs have been trained to not touch the monkey during the screening process.
—TSA web site
I found the missing gecko. He had crawled into the wastebasket. Tonight was trash night, and I emptied it into a black sack, then put the sack in the trash—at which point the gecko shot out into the bin.
I managed to catch him in a jar, and took a good look at him. Definitely a [...]
When I wrote “alleged foiling of a terrorist plot”, I did wonder if I was being too cynical. Apparently not:
A senior British official knowledgeable about the case said British police were planning to continue to run surveillance for at least another week to try to obtain more evidence, while American officials pressured them to arrest [...]
As a result of the latest alleged foiling of a terrorist plot, new restrictions have been placed on airline travelers flying between the UK and US. Specifically:
No laptops.
No PDAs.
No iPods or other electronic audio or video players.
No books.
No cameras.
No beverages or other liquids.
As someone used to flying, I don’t set foot on a plane without [...]
Someone should write a KDE game called ku that gives you Japanese number puzzles.
That way you could run it by typing sudo ku.
Thanks, I’ll be here all week.
I actually got into sudoku a bit recently. I’d tried it on paper and been unable to grasp how it worked, but I got Brain Age for the [...]
In a few years, cameras will all have single chip GPS units in them. They’ll tag their photos with the location where you took them as a matter of course, like they already tag the time and date.
Some of us are unwilling to wait a few years. I’m sure you, like me, have sat down [...]
The families of British servicemen killed in Iraq are launching a new political party. They plan to run candidates against Labour MPs who voted for the war, in as many local elections as possible. Their message is simple: The bastards lied to us, we proved they lied to us, we want them out.
Which is all [...]