MishMash

Half price!

That's a long queue for half price chips. Are they really worth the wait?

School or factory?

Who needs personal contact when we can monitor pupils using RFID tags (via Schneier on Security). *Shudder*.

San Francisco in jell(y|o)

Thanks Heather for a pointer to Liz Hickok's jelly model of San Francisco. Sadly the earthquake doesn't test it to distruction ...

Child obesity = global warming = terrorism = fascism

Mick Hume in the Times:

We were officially told this week that obesity is as big a threat as climate change. Not long ago we were told that global warming is as big a threat as terrorism. And earlier, that terrorism is as big a threat to the British people as the Second World War. So: child obesity = global warming = terrorism = Fascism. Ergo, those crisps in your child’s lunchbox are today’s moral equivalent of the Nazis. Now do you feel guilty?

Conceptual Terrorists Encase Sears Tower In Jell-O

The Onion:

CHICAGO—In what is being called the first conceptual terrorist attack on American soil, the landmark Sears Tower was encased in 18 million tons of strawberry gelatin early Monday morning, leaving thousands shocked, angry, and seriously confused.

Digital information is different

This is beautifully done, and hits a few nails on the head:

Merlin has a few worthwhile comments on the strengths of paper. Also missing, from my point of view, is the fact that a lot of what we do with computers now (pretty much everything that's off the web, for a start) needlessly recreates the limitations of paper and adds a few new problems for good measure. Now where did I put that file ...