2006-08-18

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2006-08-18 07:05 am
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Everyone needs to read this article

While I hold no brief for those misguided people who want to blow us all up, the media have been pretty facile, on the whole, about the possibility of combining various liquids to form a bomb, which they would then detonate. This Register article gives some of the facts about the substance most likely to have been envisioned as the bomb material and how difficult it is to actually make and use it.

One might remember that several years ago a plot to do this type of thing in the Philippines was thwarted. However, after that there was no ban on liquids being brought on board. The reason is that it's so difficult to make this stuff and carry it around that it's not particularly likely that anyone will be able to do it.

If you see someone walking down the aisle of your airplane headed for the toilets with a thermometer, a beaker, and a cooler filled with ice packs, be concerned.
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2006-08-18 08:24 pm
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Today's Mary-on-a-Toasted-Cheese-Sandwich-Substitute URL

This time it's chocolate drippings from under a vat. I'm not kidding.

It looks like an eagle to me, but then again, my Mariolatry days are far far behind me. Thanks to [livejournal.com profile] enigmacub for the heads-up.

P.S. They'd better keep it in the freezer or it'll end up as a puddle on the table or eaten by a kid in the shop for something else.
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2006-08-18 08:27 pm
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