What you get when my brain crashes…

An Internet Intervention

Very funny personifications of all the big, popular websites:

Internet Intervention

You may need to watch it a few times to “get” all of the references, of course.

TSA - Too much power, too little accountability

This article from “Ask the Pilot” by Patrick Smith is well worth reading. It recounts a story that a pilot had with the TSA people.

Let me give you just one little snippet:

“Ma’am, that’s an airline knife. It’s the knife they give you on the plane.“

You can probably imagine where this is headed.

There are a number of other very good articles on that site as well - be sure to check them out.

The Story of the Black Crayons

Another shining example of people over-reacting.

Basically, it is noticed that a child is always drawing with black crayons. Rather than ask “why” the child is always drawing in black, it’s immediately assumed that there must be some terrible psychological problem that needs to be addressed by calling in the parent and maybe prescribing some drugs.

Of course, the real reason the child was drawing with black crayons… well, I won’t spoil the story for you. Go read it yourself and find out.

Typing Speed

I’m a sucker for speed typing tests:

92 words

(Try it out at Speedtest)

Our Litigious Society is Getting Out of Hand

When you read things like this, it really makes you worry:

But you see, Anna is from Estonia, a former republic of the old Soviet Union. As in, the Evil Empire, world’s leading exporter of communism. So when Anna says she feels less free in the United States, where she now lives, than in the once-totalitarian regime where she was born, well … it gets your attention. And when she says Americans sometimes remind her of the gray, fatalistic men and women who shuffled along under communism, unwilling to think too deeply, say too much or laugh too loudly for fear of offending the State, it is striking, to say the least.

In case you can’t tell, I’ve been reading Overlawyered again. I stopped reading for a while because it just depressed me. But really, this needs to stop. It’s getting to the point where people are afraid to do things, just because they might get sued - and their fears are justified. If you do anything - literally, just about anything - you’re likely to get sued. And that’s just not normal!

Read the full article here:

Leonard Pitts: Freedom’s less-considered costs | Dallas Morning News | News for Dallas, Texas | Opinion: Viewpoints.

Troubling stuff, indeed.