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Is that a laser pointer in your pocket?

Laser pointer import ban in Oz Seems there's been a rash of people aiming laser pointers at planes in Oz. With an incident of a pilot being "temporarily blinded", this action may be a little less...well, as Oz politicians put it, "amusing". Previously.
posted to MetaFilter by telstar at 2:59 PM on March 30, 2008 (41 comments)

Stop Spyin'

Stop the Spying! Don't just tell Congress to stop the spying -- show them.
posted to MetaFilter by telstar at 1:09 AM on January 25, 2008 (37 comments)

Politics never changes.

Ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes.
posted to MetaFilter by telstar at 2:12 PM on January 19, 2008 (64 comments)

I Waterboard!

I Waterboard! If I had the choice of being waterboarded by a third party or having my fingers smashed one at a time by a sledgehammer, I'd take the fingers, no question.
posted to MetaFilter by telstar at 5:45 PM on December 22, 2007 (87 comments)

Take my money, please!

Cannabis distributors plead: "Let us pay taxes!"
posted to MetaFilter by telstar at 12:52 PM on November 6, 2007 (39 comments)

public panopticon

Myanmar is apparently using photos sent to websites, television stations and other media to arrest protesters taking a cue from and praising(!) China's post-handling of Tienamen square in '89. Relations are mighty cozy between the two nations (according to the big one), but the words "vassal state" are starting to be bandied about.
posted to MetaFilter by telstar at 2:48 PM on October 8, 2007 (35 comments)

Embarrasment of Riches

Poorism or Poverty Tourism is a growing trend among otherwise thrill-jaded first world tourists and is engendering a lively debate as to whether "poorists" are helping the impoverished areas they are guided through, or are merely gawking voyeurs.
posted to MetaFilter by telstar at 7:29 PM on May 11, 2007 (47 comments)

so far left they're...neocon?

Strange Bedfellows: Radical Leftists for Bush Among the German far-left, one subgroup called the anti-Germans holds some contradictory views. Most call themselves communists, yet loudly proclaim their support for Israel and George W. Bush.
posted to MetaFilter by telstar at 12:20 AM on August 25, 2006 (29 comments)

No Flying Spaghetti Monster?

Google Your Religion Profiling Religions with Google. (This will end well.)
posted to MetaFilter by telstar at 6:51 PM on August 3, 2006 (40 comments)

Can't set up a snitch line? We're outta here.

"Workers were also told not to flirt with one another." After eight years of "fiasco", Wal-Mart bails on Germany.
posted to MetaFilter by telstar at 5:57 PM on July 29, 2006 (55 comments)

rivers of babylon

95 theses of geek activism (via)
posted to MetaFilter by telstar at 6:14 PM on July 24, 2006 (36 comments)

I shot an arrow in the air

Columbine's Most Wanted Sure are a lot of people getting outed on the web these days.
posted to MetaFilter by telstar at 12:02 PM on April 23, 2006 (111 comments)

UK'ers look away!

UK Gags Media on Bush-Blair row over bombing al-Jazeera. In 2004 Bush and Blair got into a shouting match over bombing Al-Jazeera in Qatar, as Bush, in his pointy-headed non-wisdom, ached to do. The bombing didn't happen, and now the Blair gov't is threatening jounalists with prison if they print the story. One British journalist replies.
posted to MetaFilter by telstar at 2:09 PM on November 24, 2005 (94 comments)

My burning man post was deleted because it was...

My burning man post was deleted because it was "an excuse to talk"? Admittedly, it wasn't the most stellar post, but a lively discussion ensued, and gee, I thought that's why we came here. Besides, any post that allows mefites to express their everlast hatred for "hippies" has got to be doing the community some good, no?
posted to MetaTalk by telstar at 12:30 PM on September 8, 2005 (22 comments)

A call to end self spelling corrections. Very...

A call to end self spelling corrections. Very gently now....as much as your speling errar stends out to you...few of us even notice and even fewer care. (Even the good spellers among us.)

Do we really need an additional post to point out self spelling errors? Appreciate the courtesy and all...but really.
posted to MetaTalk by telstar at 12:28 AM on June 28, 2005 (107 comments)

autistic != empathetic

Could autism be a result of "extreme male" mind? A UK scientist has devised an intriguing theory as to the character and cause of autism. and yeah, this is my first FPP, for those who care about that kind of thing
posted to MetaFilter by telstar at 4:06 PM on April 27, 2005 (52 comments)