Hoo boy. Ok. So you remember the Mooninite debacle in Boston? Yeah the one where the Bostonian government decided that a bunch of lightbrites depicting a cartoon character were bombs and essentially shut down the city disposing of them? Well now in a blaze of ass covering glory they are trying to put a new [...]

Categories: breakfast links · gaming · homeland security

monday is good for you. so is art.
So it’ll be a heavy start this monday morning. This new device for New Yorkers tells you when peak power is happening so that you can reduce your usage (energy prices change hourly). Busting that out can help you save ducats and save the world. Or you could [...]

Categories: art · breakfast links · green · homeland security

So, it seems that the minds at Boeing have decided that being able to take over piloting a plane by remote control is the best way to combat air terrorism. This system is described as a “tamper-proof autopilot system which uses state-of-the-art computer and satellite technology.” Now, I don’t know if this is a [...]

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We’re printing more dollar coins! So it turns out that the raging success of the Sacagawea coins has spurred our mints on to start a new run of coins featuring only dead presidents, 4 of them a year. They assure us that no president or ex-pres will be featured until they’ve been dead 2 years. [...]

Categories: breakfast links · homeland security · palm

So I ran across this article while reading Schneier’s blog. It talks about how a volunteer fire department in a small town needed a new fire truck and asked our wonderful government for some help. And boy did it come through! Homeland security gave them almost $700,000 (close to 26 times their annual budget) and [...]

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