Male, Female, X - you know what you are Australian passport holders will now get to choose what gender they want to be listed as, with the choices including 'X' for intersex.
(Apologies for the single link. An amazing topic, but I am not the most knowledgeable on this and hope those who are can come and comment on it).
posted by Megami
on Sep 15, 2011 -
76 comments
Soup Over Bethlehem - The mloukhieh in the soup bowl represents the shared national heritage and the meal itself becomes a gastronomic anchoring of a Palestinian identity in eternal flux.
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posted by tellurian
on Apr 2, 2009 -
17 comments
The guy over at
Make Your Nut is facing a dilemma I've wondered about myself: what to do about the security risks that are inherent in the many RFID-chipped credit and ATM cards that banks are so keen on issuing today? There's a
lot of evidence out there that indicates that the highly personal information these cards (and the new
US passports as well) carry can be stripped away by a thief with a little motivation and access to relatively low-cost equipment. You can go with the nifty
RFID-blocking wallets (discussed
here previously), or, according to some, you could just
grab a hammer.
posted by shiu mai baby
on Apr 30, 2007 -
26 comments
RFID+US Passport? By October 2006, the U.S. government will require nearly all of the passports it issues to include a computer chip containing the passport holder's personal information...
posted by yoga
on Oct 27, 2005 -
41 comments
The requirement to carry passports while visiting US, that will eventually include biometric markers such as iris scans as well as digital photos, leaves
Canadians unhappy.
posted by riffola
on Sep 23, 2003 -
23 comments
Microsoft altering its ".NET" strategy Microsoft has announced that it's changing its overall use of .NET on its products, as it seems they've figured out that it's confusing to most users or potential customers, and flat out that "many people were unable to figure out just what it was." says the AP Wire.
Now they're coming up with a nifty new logo to go with it, and perhaps they'll end up actually competing with IBM in the backend business. For some background on what .NET does, check
here.
posted by djspicerack
on Jan 9, 2003 -
13 comments
The Passport: the next step in its evolution may include
invisible information encoded into your mug shot, but if you are wondering where it all began, the Canadian
passport office identifies one Nehemiah of Persia, ca. 450 BC, as candidate for very first passport holder.
Some think that it was all downhill from there. Regardless, there might be very good
reasons for getting more than one passport, which you can do
legally, or
less so.
Lenin had a fake passport. So did
Hitler, though he didn't know it. (More inside.)
posted by taz
on Aug 10, 2002 -
5 comments
