A company called Applied Autonomy has an creepy, yet interesting website called iSee. The long and short of it is that it maps surveillance cameras in urban environments and helps you plot directions around town so you are spied on less.
Manhattan is the only city listed thus far. Interesting idea, but after 9-11 it’s only a matter of time before iSee is shut down, I’m sure.
Did I miss something? How can a judge in Freehold, New Jersey jail 228 striking teachers simply because they refused to go back to work? Did teachers suddenly become enlisted personnel considered AWOL when they leave their posts? Would they also be arrested if they simply quit?
Am I wrong or aren’t we supposed to be entering a time when America honors its ‘true’ heroes? Or have we decided that it’s high time we alienate yet another social class? If this is the case, I wish someone would’ve told me. I’m having a heck of a time keeping track of all the types of people I’m supposed to hate.
A Filipino farmer who believed his penis was driving him to sin sliced it off with a machete. Relatives said they found the man lying on the floor, covered in blood with a portion of his sexaphone missing. Unfortunately, they were unable to find the severed tidbit and his fiddlestick is now 20 percent shorter.
His mother said she believes her son’s act of lunacy was triggered by Matthew 18:8. Taken from the New Testament of the Bible, the verse reads, “If your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life maimed or crippled than to have two hands or two feet and be thrown into eternal fire.”
However, others speculated there was a different explanation for a man hacking off his wee willy because he believes it’s a cobra drawing him toward women. “The mere act of cutting his penis signifies that he is psychotic,” said the attending physician. Finally, a completely honest psychiatric evaluation.
As is custom with Americans, we have commandeered the word “terrorism” to mean terrorist attacks on America. However, there are lots of other successful capitalist countries in this world. According to CNN, the largest building in Australia, the Rialto Towers, was a “target of terrorism”.
This news comes from a captured al Quaeda operative interviewed in India. He also claimed that there were to be attacks on England as well. This man was trained as a pilot in Australia much in the same manner as is alleged of those men who attacked the WTC. As frightening as the idea that similar attacks were being planned in other countries, Australian and Indian officials have found no direct links between this man and other known al Quaeda operatives. There is the possibility that he’s just some lunatic who happened to take flight lessons in Melbourne and then concocted this story for some sort of weird notoriety.
We all live busy lives. We all have things to do. We have to get kids to day care, get to work, kiss the boss’s ass, meet deadlines… it never seems to stop.
Well, today, make it stop for just 1 minute.
Today is the 60th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Pearl Harbor changed the United States in a way that us youngin will never understand. Some say September 11th is our Pearl Harbor. Don’t insult WW2 vets like that. We still have no idea. The sense of safety 1930’s America had was much larger than 1990’s America.
But I’m getting away from my point. Make all the craziness of your day stop for 1 minute. Sit for a moment and honor the men and women who died (and didn’t die) at Pearl Harbor. Just give them that respect. They deserve it to no end.
Please do it before Hollywood makes another completely worthless movie on it.