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Does Airport Security Really Make Us Safer? | Culture | Vanity Fair

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 01:39:25 +0000

The best memorial to the victims of 9/11, in Schneier’s view, would be to forget most of the “lessons” of 9/11. “It’s infuriating,” he said, waving my fraudulent boarding pass to indicate the mass of waiting passengers, the humming X-ray machines, the piles of unloaded computers and cell phones on the conveyor belts, the uniformed T.S.A. officers instructing people to remove their shoes and take loose change from their pockets. “We’re spending billions upon billions of dollars doing this—and it is almost entirely pointless. Not only is it not done right, but even if it was done right it would be the wrong thing to do.”

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Scott Andrew - DIY acoustic pop superhero! wordpress archives 2008 04 flugtag

Wed, 21 May 2008 04:20:26 +0000

"Look, didn’t you attend the seminar? Did you not just SEE the guy with the hanglider? The system works. All you have to do is keep throwing stuff over the edge."

Tags: #flight #hangliders #toasters

A Users Manual to Seat 21C - Jet Lagged - Air Travel - Opinion - New York Times Blog

Sat, 05 Jan 2008 20:06:17 +0000

"CONGRATULATIONS ON SELECTING SEAT 21C! This manual is intended to familiarize you with the many options available to you."

Tags: #21c #flight #funny #travel

Boing Boing: Why is American Airlines gathering written dossiers on fliers' friends?

Wed, 19 Jan 2005 21:17:56 +0000

Another data point for my hesitation to ever take a plane to anywhere this decade, even domestically.

Tags: #faa #flight #tsa