NAZIS TRAIN GIANT APE TO DESTROY WONDER WOMAN!

Or, you know, just hold her close wistfully.

Lucky ol’ giant Nazi ape.



Via Mostly Forbidden Zone.

You drive me ape (you big gorilla),

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IM IN UR CAR, PLANTING MY GPSs

ITEM: Yasir Afifi, a 20-year-old student at Mission College, discovers a GPS tracking device attached to his car and – upon removing it – receives a visit from the FBI, who say they’d like it back, please.

Then they start asking him questions about a blog post allegedly made by a friend of his (which he’d never read) that speculates on how easy it would be to bomb a shopping mall (the point of the post being that if terrorism was as big a threat as the govt says, we’d have seen a lot more domestic terrorist attacks by now).

The agents left and Afifi wasn’t arrested or charged. But what this boils down to is this:

The FBI put a tracking device on the car of a US citizen simply for being the friend of someone who posted something that mentioned bombs. That was their sole criteria.

Bruce Schneier asks some good questions worth asking, considering the Ninth Circuit Court recently ruled that the police do not need a warrant to attach a GPS tracker to yr car. I doubt the FBI is sticking these devices on every car in America (if only because they don’t have the budget to buy that many devices). But with really lax criteria like that and no need to prove to a judge this person needs tracking, we’re likely to see more cases like this pop up.

And as usual, most people won’t care as long as it happens to, you know, suspicious people.

Follow that car,

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DEF "YR FUNNY CHINESE UNCLE" TOUR 2010, PART 1: THE HIGHLIGHTS

In no particular order (after the first item, that is):

1. Meeting friends
Especially snickersaddict  and her husband in Chicago, which I mention first partly because she’d be hurt if I didn’t put her at the top of the list, but mainly because she is officially the first person that I met in real life after meeting first here on the LJs.

Also, I wanted to kick off the list with a photo of the flaming cheese we had at Andie’s.



Of course it was also good to see everyone else, in particular the ones I hadn’t seen since I left the country 14 years ago. I won’t name names because I’ll forget someone, but you all know who you are, and I had a great time with each and every one of you. For those of you who couldn’t make it, the drinks are on you next time.

( Bloggety bloggety gibbity gibbity etc +pancakes and cleavage tattoos! )

Next: Raise the Titanic!

You had to be there,

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