Random links
- Another TSA Outrage
- This is even more amusing that the TSA's new approaching to
molestingsearching airline passengers. Apparently US soldiers are permitted to carry assault rifles (no bullets) onto a plane, but their nail clippers will be confiscated.
- The Worst of Times:Cookbook writers are ridiculously bad at guessing how long it'll take to prepare a meal.
- The article also notes that they're seeing less experienced cooks starting to do more. But this appears to be the most important reason, at least as far as Gourmet Magazine is concerned: "I called up Ruth Reichl, who told me that each recipe in Gourmet was tested by cooks who made it many times over, and also by a 'cross-tester,' who made it only once. But the printed times came from the cooks who'd made the dish repeatedly, and Reichl allows that may have been a mistake. 'When you've done a recipe eight times, you get a lot faster,' she pointed out. 'Probably we should've used the cross-tester's time, and not the developer's final time.'"
- #18 Awareness
- "you get all the benefits of helping (self satisfaction, telling other people) but no need for difficult decisions or the ensuing criticism (how do you criticize awareness?)"
- For Frequent Fliers, a Radiation Risk in the Skies
- "Airline crew members flying long-haul high-altitude routes receive, on average, greater exposures than the typical radiation workers in ground-based industries where radioactive sources or radiation producing machines are used" ... and that seems to be before the new scanners which according to Business Week if working properly will result in 1 in 30 million getting a fatal cancer. Where's the proof that any of this makes terror attacks less likely?