From Emergent Chaos: the TSA behavior detection team had the state boys in Florida lock up a gentleman in an irregular army uniform. The acronym for this magic (you knew it was coming) is “Screening of Passengers by Observation Techniques (SPOT)”.

Rodrigo y Gabriela - 6/30/2007, 9:00 pm @ Rams Head Live!

Bruce Schneier’s latest wired.com commentar is excellent.

Echard Wheeler, the photographer we had at our wedding, has posted a selection on his blog if you’d like a quick peek. If you’d like to see a bunch more, or buy prints:

Creating applications with applescript is really easy but every time I use it I want to think like a shell or perl scripter and end up bailing. This has been especially annoying with the screenshot and publish script I’ve been using for the past five years. The port to applescript was easy but creating an application out of the shell script didn’t work as expected. I then ported it to Automator when that came out. Ugh. I ended up going back to shell and escaping out for native OSX image handling which is superior to imagemacick.

Would anyone be interested in a Sunday night show in DC? Would Pizza Paradiso in Georgetown be a good enough bribe? I caught this on my last.fm recommended events RSS.

Cross-posted from somewhere awful and edited to make sense as a stand alone:

The SomethingAwful forums have changed their privacy policy after a third-party IP sharing incident went public. If you are a member, check this thread for more whining.

Some folks were playing with a TV-B-Gone at the Shmoocon after-party at Adams Mill.