"Yeah, you can see it from here, Mr. Book-signing-terrorist-guy..."
-Safety first-
Note to an interview with Jenna Bush about a book signing in Daytona:
"Security: All people at the event should anticipate individual security screening and credential checks prior to admission to the event. Guests will pass through magnetometers. These items will not be allowed: large bags, backpacks, weapons, explosives, fireworks, umbrellas, poles and sticks, containers of any type, aerosols, mace or pepper spray, sharp or pointed objects, tools, plastic replicas of weapons, noise-makers, banners, signs or placards. No unopened envelopes or packages will be permitted inside the book-signing area. Because of security reasons, only those people with line numbers to get books signed will be admitted to the book-signing area."
Some of these things strike me a pretty unlikely -- "Oops! Didn't mean to bring my bottle rockets, poles, and socket wrenches!" Even then, it's not comprehensive -- what's to stop someone from bringing an ostrich infected with bird flu?
Someone really needs to consider these things... (Daytona Daily News)
-Like Ron Paul, he's the "internet candidate"-
Greenpeace's whale gets a corporate backer:
Doesn't this violate some sort of election law? (reddit)
-More election shennanigans-
Greenpeace is reporting that "it appears that someone found a way around our 'one vote per person' rule and began a clicking frenzy that was to change the face of the competition." And that change was in favor of Mister Splashy Pants. Apparently, some hacker found a way to throw the results, clicked their vote a few times, then got extremely obsessive about things.
"Between 6:55pm and 7:33pm local time, the click rate went off the chart and didn't fall below 120 clicks per minute for a full 38 minutes without pause. Four times the click rate peaked at a staggering 150 clicks per minute, that's 1 click every 0.4 seconds. The fact that this limit was never breached despite some significant effort suggests the natural limit of human clicking may have been inadvertently discovered." All from the same IP address.
Dude, you really need to do something more important with your time... (Making Waves (Greenpeace's blog))
