"Taco in my hand and a brain on the screen" Hmm...that sounds like some awesome rap lyrics.

It's pronounced "Hfuhruhurr".

It was on its way to Texas?

"small town of La Grange"

In February of 1980, when asked what she thought about gay rights, Lucy replied, "It's perfectly all right with me. Some of the most gifted people I've ever met or read about are homosexual. How can you knock it?" She was truly a pioneer.

This was an interesting read. But I'm wondering why all the "ff"s in the article are in a different font that consolidates the two letters into the single character "ff".

BIDI BIDI BIDI BIDI

If you're saying that you don't mind subjecting yourself to radiation to perpetrate security theater that does absolutely nothing to keep you safe, then I say feel free. If you're objecting to me opting out, which is my right, because I don't want to be exposed to one microseivert of radiation than is absolutely…

So, what you're saying, basically, is that you shouldn't go out of your way to limit your exposure to any type of radiation?

The Rapiscan scanners do not simply "reflect" off of a person. They penetrate into some layers of skin, as evidenced by the images of facial and shin bones in the images. While some/most of the x-rays might be reflected, there is some that is penetrates a distance then, lacking sufficient residual energy to exit, is…

You could. But I think the more inexpensive dosimeters are just film in a badge that have to be developed to determine the dose the badge was exposed to. There might be others that are more quickly read...I'm not an expert on dosimetry, so I don't know for sure.

X-rays are ionizing radiation, due to their relatively short wavelength and high frequency (relative to other forms of EM radiation). There is no radiation that is both in the x-ray portion of the spectrum and is non-ionizing.

Michael Chertoff doesn't get his kickbacks from those things.

If you go through with one in your pocket, it'll show up on the imaging. The dose from the body scanners is probably small, but ionizing radiation is cumulative. The only way to get a good idea of how radiation you're getting is to wear it several times through the body scanner. But, when they see it on the scan,…

You know the only reason we have the full body scanners is because former secretary of DHS Michael Chertoff is in bed with Rapiscan, right? The scanners are not operated by radiation technologists (like the x-ray machines in hospitals), there is no assurance of calibration of the machines, there is no assurance of…

Can you opt to only get casual data rates? I.e. no data plan? That way you pay $10 per GB no matter how much you use. The only data plan better than that is the $80/10 GB...but the people using 10 GB on their phone have the be in the smallest minority.

Are you trying to blow us all to shit, Sherlock?

If you get too close to that computer, it'll snake out some cables and turn you into a robot...just like poor Vera from Superman 3! Damn, it's saying the youtube video isn't available. :P

I love Wing! She frickin' rocks! And she is actually available on iTunes!

I thought a Pope's Nose was part of a chicken.