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- Julie Newmar as April Conquest
- Yo dawg, I heard you like TSA security restrictions, so I put some security restrictions on top of your security restrictions
- Study finds link between house chores and sex
- Vases that look like plumbing pipes
| Julie Newmar as April Conquest Posted: 26 Dec 2009 06:45 PM PST  One of the highlights of David and my careers as technology journalists was meeting the beautiful Julie Newmar about 15 years ago. (She and Jerry Pournelle signed wooden cheese cutting boards for us). On Cartoon Retro, Shane Glines posted some screen shots of Julie from "The Monkees Get Out More Dirt" (1967). He says, "Look at the size difference between Julie and Davy Jones! Avatar without the special effects." |
| Posted: 26 Dec 2009 05:00 PM PST  (Image: Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, at far left, in a photo from his Facebook profile, via NYT.) Here's an open thread for discussing the awesome new TSA in-flight security restrictions that will surely protect us all from future pantsbombers. Just like the war on toothpaste protected us from Mister Sizzly Pants' crotch-launched Christmas fireworks. How'd that loser manage to board a plane in Lagos packing Pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN), then glide on through to a Detroit-bound Delta Airlines flight? What the hell's PETN? Is it in toothpaste? How did our supposedly tightened post-9/11 flight security system allow this to happen — despite apparent warning? Incidentally, I took an early morning flight on Delta from Latin America to the US, among the first international flights subject to a TSA security directive issued this morning. As we boarded, the flight attendants announced that all passengers would be prohibited from getting out of their seats (for instance, to go to the toilet) or from using any electronic devices (phones, laptops, games) or having anything on their laps (even a book or a blanket) during the last hour of the flight. I tweeted about it from the plane. Bottom line, the new rules make your fellow passengers farty and crosslegged (ever try not going to the bathroom during the last part of a really long-haul international flight?), the flight attendants seemed to be just as annoyed about the meritless new rules as the passengers, and we were none the safer. The worst part? None of this would have stopped the pantsbomber. Bruce Schneier today blogged, " Do we really think the terrorist won't think of blowing up their improvised explosive devices during the first hour of flight?" And as Schneier wrote back in 2008, "Only two things have made flying safer [since 9/11]: the reinforcement of cockpit doors, and the fact that passengers know now to resist hijackers." Related: Nigerians are seriously pissed off at the suspect, who is reported to be the son of a prominent Nigerian banker. * Origin of headline joke is here. Antinous came up with Mister Sizzly Pants, not me. |
| Study finds link between house chores and sex Posted: 26 Dec 2009 03:05 PM PST A study published by the Journal of Family Issues has found that there is a link between household labor time and sexual frequency — the more men help out with chores at home, the more sex a couple tends to have. Lead researcher Constance Gager: "We're not saying that housework causes sex; rather there are groups who 'do it all' and other groups who do not."   |
| Vases that look like plumbing pipes Posted: 26 Dec 2009 03:04 PM PST  A French design firm has created a series of flower vases inspired by plumbing. They're made of PVC, and really beautiful — I'd love to have a set like this in my living room. [via Dezeen] Image by Fred DuMur |
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