My father in law is heading off to he Ukraine next month. He's bumming that his 18 hours of flight will not include his laptop.

Heh. You should see the sign at the front door of my house. :cool:

Here's an article on Duty Free stores that was in yesterday's Chronicle.

I'm amused by the instances of requiring people that do bring liquids on to taste them first.

As a recent piece at Slate said few of the potential chemicals for such bombs are immediately fatal and it is hard to believe that such a terrorist would have a problem taking a couple sips of slow-acting poisons. They are, after all, planning to die within the next few hours anyway.

why have I not heard a single reporter ask that rather obvious question about the effacacy of the revised screening procedures?

Here's a quote from Bush today:
And here's a news story from Yahoo:

(maybe this will lure scaeagles out of hiding)

Good point. Though I wonder if the security folks are watching to see people's reactions to the taste. I would assume the chemicals are quite unpleasant and would likely induce a grimace upon consumption.

As grimacy as scaeagles new avatar?










(now let's see if that lures him out of hiding)

Or this