Archive for July 17th, 2008
Thursday, July 17th, 2008
Bomb Dectector Bought by USG was a $32 Million Scam
Sniffix: the $6,000 per-unit bomb detection device that turns out to work on "the same principles as a Ouija board." You have to admit, even the name sounds suspicious.
Michael Grabell reports for ProPublic.com.
According to the company, Sniffex could detect explosives up to a football field away by reading the "interference between the magnetic […]
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Thursday, July 17th, 2008
You-Tuber of Note: The Aviation Intelligencer
Bookmark this one. The Aviation Intelligencer posts news clips under this moniker:
"A video is worth a thousand TSA lies and denials."
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Thursday, July 17th, 2008
Burlingame on 9/11 Flight Crew Memorial
Debra Burlingame writes about the recently dedicated 9/11 flight crew memorial — what it looks like and what it means — with elegant clarity.
It makes perfect sense that this memorial would not be an abstract work of art with its subject matter intentionally obscured, if not impossible to discern. Instead, it is a classical figurative […]