The Zoo over Ambuscade Street

Courtesy of silentrogue47:

Air Force tests a new fire supression system. The system exceeds Air Force standards! (*refrains from making obvious joke*) An unprecedented success! Those of you with military experience are probably laughing at least as hard as I am right now, which is about 10x harder than anyone without experience working for the DOD. But remember kids, friends don't let friends forward emails, because it's bad, m'kay?

The misrepresentation of this test has raised the level of awareness about the far-reaching effects of e-mail and technology.

Master Sgt. Dana Rogers, 28th Communications Squadron superintendent of network security, said e-mails such as the one depicting the foam test “misrepresent our capabilities” and can even cause damage to computer networks.

“You think it’s so funny, so you send it to 10 people. Then, they send it to 10 more. This takes up an extremely large amount of e-mail space and can lead to the loss of resources,” he said.

Another aspect of e-mails that miscommunicate facts is the amount of time someone may have to take in order to set the record straight. An e-mail that took two seconds to send caused a large number of man-hours to set straight.

*dies of snicker*

Glamour Babes
At Glittery and Glossy Club Libby Lu, Little Girls Play Dress-Up, for a Price

By Libby Copeland
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, March 25, 2006; Page C01

Saturdays, Club Libby Lu in the Tysons Corner mall is filled with little girls wanting makeovers. The staffers who do makeup and hair call the little girls "princess," each and every one.

"That's the only name we know," says one staffer with pride.

Mostly it's birthday parties at Club Libby Lu. A girl turns 6 and she wants the Tween Idol makeover for herself and her friends, complete with makeup, punky hair and a pink headset like Britney Spears might wear onstage. All the girls get to borrow party costumes. Many choose low-slung pants and sequined spandex tops cropped just under where their breasts would be, if they had any. Sometimes, the girls are so small their pants legs drag under their sneakers.

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I'm going to refrain from commenting, because I don't think I can contain the frothing rage.

[EDIT] AIEEEE!!!! *froths, foams, and gibbers*

Bush has appointed a new chief privacy and civil-liberties officer. I wonder if he'll be as effective as Bush's more-than-a-year-old "Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board"...which has yet to meet even once. Does this guy have any power? Any authority? Anything whatsoever that will enable him to make changes for the better? Magic Eight Ball says "Outlook Not So Good."

Let's look at some of Bush's past appointments (courtesy of someone on /.):

June 2003: Nuala O'Connor Kelly, (former Chief "Privacy" Officer of Doubleclick) appointed to be Chief "Privacy" officer for HomeSec.

February 2005: D. Reed Freeman, (former Gator/Claria Chief "Privacy" Officer) sitting on HomeSec's Data "Privacy" and "Integrity" Advisory Committee.

I hear he plans to appoint the fox to Chief Henhouse Guard...

Oh yea...I feel so much better now!