It’s time to end TSA-sponsored terrorism in the air and on American soil!
In nearly three years on Twitter, rarely have I seen such widespread, rapid and uniform response to anything having to do with politics, security or terrorism. The complaints and jokes came on rapid fire this afternoon, filling my screen with everything TSA and terrorism. It was a slow Twitter day, but perhaps 10% of the tweets I saw over a few hours were on a single topic — that’s unprecedented.
After a failed terrorist attempt yesterday, the TSA has responded with the next escalation after their previous high-water mark of stupidity (no pun intended), the no-liquids rule. Now: no more electronics in flight, nothing in your lap, only one carry on, and no movement in the last hour of flight. Many of those I follow on Twitter are frequent travelers, most are highly intelligent. All who’ve commented seem pissed (and not just that they won’t be able to pee).
They know the real impact of what security expert Bruce Schneier calls Security Theater (if you don’t like that link to his blog, try this one to 60 Minutes, even if they haven’t read his latest reaction.
My first reaction was When I stop flying, it doesn’t mean the terrorists have won, it means the TSA has! Read more
To marry a geek, propose like one. Engaged! (Yes, on Twitter, like real geeks.)
(photo by Ken Yeung)
If you want to marry a geek, you should propose like one. That makes Twitter and Facebook mandatory. Optional, but highly desired: a room full of San Francisco’s tech elite. At least, that was good enough for me, and I’ve managed to get very lucky.
At AT&T Unix Labs, Laura La Gassa helped maintain the C libraries and several standard Unix utilities. She was the build engineer for the first Pentium ‘C’ compiler. From there, she was an engineer in five silicon valley startups, though she’s spent the last ten years as a competitive ballroom dancer (and maker of dresses for same). They don’t come much prettier, more wonderful, or more geeky. (I’ll spare you lots of other adjectives I’d carry on with at length.) Fortunately, even though I’ve gone longer than she without coding, I have a small bit of my own geek cred, and was up to the task.
You can find the proposal (and about 150 reactions) in Laura’s Twitter favorites. A few blog posts (with pictures) about the evening:
http://technologizer.com/2009/11/20/a-night-to-remember/
http://bub.blicio.us/the-twitter-proposal/
http://sunshinemug.blogspot.com/2009/11/twitprosal-at-tech-halls.html
About Dale
Entrepreneur and Advisor.
Founder, LeanScale.
Partner, SF AppStudio.I've been a software engineer, a rocket scientist, a CEO, an author, editor and publisher, a personal trainer (to movie stars, Olympic and professional athletes), and helped build a couple of mobile and Internet ad agencies.
Yeah, I was also the guy at the front of the iPhone line; all three times. iPad, too.
I write about startups, business, technology (especially mobile, social and web), and sometimes I review the gadgets I love to play with.
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