26. February, 2003 - Terrorist Glassware!
- Dozens busted on drug paraphernalia, including Tommy Chong’s company, which sold glass artwork. If freaks can’t smoke their tobacco out of fancy pipes, then the terrorists have already won. [fark!]
- 55 Charged With Selling Drug Gear Online has more details. Most of the indictments came out of Des Moines and Pittsburgh. [scripting]
- Even more: U.S. raids firms selling items used by pot smokers / Ashcroft blames Internet for paraphernalia. [flutterby]
- Okay, we’re in a war on terror, in a high state of alert, busy busting folks selling pipes for smoking herbs, and Nuke Lab Can't Keep Snoops Out. Seems you can just walk right in to the Los Alamos National Lab.
Before I got to Los Alamos, I figured it would have at least the (security) level of a military base,
Doran said. Now I know better.
This reminds me a lot of the day in late September or early October 2001 when I biked past Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport and discovered that there wasn’t even any security fence between the road and the runways all along the west side of the airport. They were doing construction, you see, and the fences were down. In fact there were nice hard-packed dirt roads made by the construction equipment leading from the Cedar Ave. Frontage Road all the way to the runways. The security? A National Guardsman napping in a Humvee at each end of the stretch of frontage road adjacent to the airport. [boing boing]
- In United States Patent: 6,525,747, Jeff Bezos claims to have invented discussion-group software. And the patent office seems to have bought it. Yet another reminder of why software patents are a bad plan. [scripting]
- On a lighter note: Daypop Top Word Bursts track words that have become more common in weblogs recently. It’s a way of seeing inside the commentary, rather than just seeing what bloggers are linking to. [scripting]
- And finally, some good news: Michigan Man Uses Junk FAX Law to Sue Sears Over Spam. See his computer receiveds email via a phone line, and he prints it out. Like a fax machine. In fact, enough like a fax machine that the court awarded him money. [fark!]
Copyright 2008, Dave Polaschek.
Last updated on Wed, 26 Feb 2003 08:08:18.