Miscellaneous Web Stories
As usual, there’s too much out there to write in depth about. Here’s the latest, in point form:
- Weirdly illustrated children’s book about where babies come from. You really need to check it out! It’s brilliant… and a little disturbing. (Via BoingBoing — translation of the german here.)
- Disneyworld is fingerprinting all visitors. For ‘ticket fraud protection’. But you know, if the FBI wants that data to save us from so-called terrorists, of course we can give it to them.
- Here’s one for my significant other: A gnathograph, some sort of weird tooth-measuring instrument from the 30s. Looks like something out of a Clockwork Orange… (via BoingBoing)
- Apparently we aren’t even allowed to bring pens onto an airplane now. Must be the ink — the 1 mL of liquid might be explosive! Although Live vibrators and Plastic explosives are OK. (Via BoingBoing)
- Stoner SMSes cop by mistake — and gets pulled over, searched, and arrested. Which is why you don’t let cops search your purse, expecially if you have drugs in it. In this case, telling the cop via text message that you had drugs might make the search legal, but you could still argue that. Check out FlexYourRights for info re: police stops. (Via BoingBoing)
- US Government seizes A man’s life savings in a “drug search”. He’s never charged with anything, but they refuse to give the $124,000 back. And it’s not a police state? (Via FlexYourRights.org)
*Whew*! I think that’s enough for now… don’t you?
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