Breakfast Links: Sci-fi Security, Mad Cows & HTML Anime
Ok, you can’t believe this one. Well, maybe you can, but I can’t. Our Department of Homeland Security, the one that’s supposed to be keeping us safe (but isn’t) you know their new initiative? They’re working with science fiction writers to figure out the next plots that the terrorists will use. Seriously. The dumb thing (is there only one?) is that they didn’t need to go to all the effort, Bruce Schneier is already having a competition for the best Movie-Plot terrorist threat - the second annual one, in fact. They could just read that post’s comment and save themselves some time. It’s so sad and it’s going to cost so many billions of dollars and it’ll probably make me less safe since instead of doing actual police work and catching terrorists they’ll be focused on stopping hairbrained schemes. Great.
So this country is awesome, right? Our beef is the bomb. So much the bomb that the Bush administration has vowed to prevent meatpackers from voluntarily testing all their animals for mad cow disease. That’s right, prevent! The whole world doesn’t want out meat because of mad cow fear because we don’t do testing and our government wants to prevent it. The best part of it was when our Agriculture Department cited false positives if widespread testing occurred, but the test they want to use is the same one the government uses. So what’s the deal? does it work or not? And after all this Bush says this to China:
They need to be eating US beef. It’s good for them. They’ll like it.
They need to be eating US beef. It’s good for them (unless they get mad cow disease). They’ll like it. As though China was Mikey.
Sigh.. but as usual, I wouldn’t leave you with just depressing news to start your morning! Check out this video where some crazy japanese person draws an anime character using HTML! This is totally OCD madness. And of course in the comments there’s some standardista who complains that this was done using tables instead of CSS. Can you believe that? That’s why I hate the standardista’s and I love this video all the more.
