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Tuesday, August 06, 2002 |
2" GI Joe rifle confiscated at LAX. The British tabloid The Sun reports that security guards at LAX confiscated a two-inch plastic GI Joe rifle from a seven-year-old's toy action figure. I feel safer.
Security chiefs at Los Angeles airport said: “We have instructions to confiscate anything that looks like a weapon or a replica.
“If GI Joe was carrying a replica then it had to be taken from him.” Link Discuss (via MeFi) [Boing Boing Blog]
1:16:03 PM 
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TIPS: Truth stranger than fiction
Dave Lindorff signed up as a volunteer for the new spy-on-your-neighbor anti-terrorist brigade -- but when he tried to call in a tip, he found that the government is routing such calls through Fox's "America's Most Wanted" TV program. No joke. Read all about it in Salon Premium. Is the War on Terrorism really just a proxy for the War for Ratings? [Scott Rosenberg's Links & Comment]
7:46:33 AM
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7:26:46 AM
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Nielsen Ratings via TiVo. Nielsen will collect television ratings info directly from TiVo subscribers.
Working together, Nielsen Media Research and TiVo have developed software that will enable the extraction of tuning, recording and playback information from TiVo's PVR system. TiVo has downloaded this new software as part of a normal system upgrade via phone lines to existing TiVo subscribers across the country. Link Discuss (via /.) [Boing Boing Blog]
7:15:21 AM
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