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RFID Tags on Mach3 Razorblades Snap Your Photo

by Bryan Strawser · Jul 20, 2003

Quite the fascinating link between supply chain technology and loss prevention technology. Great comments at Slashdot as well.

peteo writes “Think RFID tags are harmless? Look at how they are being used in the UK: “At the Tesco Cambridge store, a camera trained on the Gillette blade … [Slashdot]

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Beat Back The Bush Attack!

by Bryan Strawser · Jul 20, 2003

And that would be about as effective as the anti-war protests earlier this year. You go for it.

Hit the streets and demand an end to occupation [Global Indymedia Newswire]

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Register : RIAA Subpoenas

by Bryan Strawser · Jul 19, 2003

Register: “The [RIAA] confirmed that it was serving subpoenas at the rate of 75 a day.” [Scripting News]

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Net News Wire

by Bryan Strawser · Jul 19, 2003

Testing a post with Net News Wire. Here goes.

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Lazy Morning

by Bryan Strawser · Jul 19, 2003

Slept in until 930am when someone called my cell phone. Sloooooow morning.

Blogging from the couch.

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John Robb is Back!

by Bryan Strawser · Jul 18, 2003

John Robb is back, located now at MindPlex.org.

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Flatulence in Space

by Bryan Strawser · Jul 17, 2003

is next: farting.

There was all kinds of stuff in the news that made me angry this morning, so as has become customary on days like this, I’m going to pretend I didn’t read any of that and move straight on to the fart jokes:

For those of you who think flatulence is a laughing matter, let me tell you from some readings and meetings I attended back during my Boeing space-station design days, it isn’t. It’s an extremely serious health issue in spacecraft. Pile seven people in an RV and recycle their individual up-to-two-liters-per-day of passed gas for two weeks and you’ve got a description of a Shuttle mission. Astronauts on orbit report getting used to the smell as it slowly builds up and the scrubbers fall behind. Post-landing Orbiter cleanup janitors have been known to puke from the stench upon entering the crew compartment – or so I’ve been told.

By jwz@jwz.org. [jwz]

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