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  • MyNetDiary – what Weight Watchers should be

    I’ve always been frustrated that Weight Watchers only have a Flash-based food tracking App in the UK – for it to really work for me I need an iPad and...

  • Spot on: it isn’t the TSA’s fault

    [Insightful](http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9197838/TSA_and_the_freedom_thing_We_re_the_problem): > Adam Shostack, one of the security industry’s more eloquent practitioners, had this to say in his [Emergent Chaos blog](http://emergentchaos.com/archives/2010/10/its-not-tsas-fault.html): “It’s true. TSA employees are just doing their job,...

  • One final TSA thing

    I’m going to shut up about the TSA thing now (although tomorrow might be interesting) but this (via Fake Steve Jobs) is sad: The awful thing is that the TSA...

  • An interesting way of putting risks into perspective

    Interesting idea in this Harvard blog post on [the TSA madness](http://feeds.harvardbusiness.org/~r/harvardbusiness/~3/Vjeiz2-uFtw/the_hidden_risks_of_the_tsa_sc.html). > Perhaps the solution is to have a little ticker at the bottom of TV news screens that lists...

  • From the Roman Chariot to the Space Shuttle

    How special – [the size of the Space Shuttle SRBs is determined by the size of a Roman Chariot](http://www.econrates.com/reality/ass.html). I also love how the guys flying the SR-71 [get to...

  • “Groping people at the airport doesn’t solve our problems”

    I find the political process in different countries fascinating. I don’t know enough to comment, but I find the style differences quite amazing (I remember once as a boy listening...