Archive for May, 2007

This is freaking awesome

Adventures In Airport Security

Further proof that some of the “security” techniques employed at our airports are completely useless, nonsensical, and possibly detrimental to our security.

KCTV5 out of Kansas City basically created a fake ID card and were able to clear security with it.

(from KCTV5 via BoingBoing)

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Today’s Funnies

::mcmorran.org:: Star Wars toys that never made it

Toddler gets served (I hope she’s ok, but seriously couldn’t help but laugh - I’m probably going to Hell, if there is such a place.):

And speaking of Hell:
Jerry Falwell’s Greatest Hits

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Programming for Kids? Check out Scratch.

This is pretty awesome, from the Lifelong Kindergarten group at MIT.

“These days, kids interact with all kinds of dynamic things on screen but it is usually a one-way street - they are usually interacting with things that other people have created,” said Professor Resnick, who also invented Lego Mindstorms, a robotics toolkit often used in teaching.

“With Scratch we want to let kids to be the creators. We want them to create interesting dynamic things on the computer.”

Here is the rest of the article, via BBC News.

I just downloaded the Mac installer, so I’ll poke around with it and report back eventually.

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This is definitely one of the cuter lolcats. From I CAN HAS CHEESEBURGER?.

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