A judge in Rhode Island ruled that a private (religious) school could not punish a student for his hairstyle.

Yes, I know the attacks on 9/11 struck close to home. But you people on the East Coast need to get over it, and like Americans everywhere, you need to learn a bit more about the environment around you.
A formation flight of a few aerobatic aircraft do not pose a threat to you. Now, perhaps it’s unreasonable to expect the average citizen to be able to distinguish a small aerobatic airplane from, say a Boeing 767. But you should also realize that a hijacking like the ones that occurred on 9/11 are extremely unlikely to happen again.
On the one hand, no one on board one of these planes is ever going to be coerced into allowing hijackers to gain control of the cockpit. Second, in the extremely unlikely event that a terrorist actually gained control of a large airplane, the response by the various responsible agencies would be too swift to allow such an attack to succeed.
So quit panicking. Our governmen’s handling of minor threats since 9/11 has fostered this hair-trigger fear, and it’s time we took back control of our emotions and lives.

What is going on with Safari constantly SPODing on me? Almost every page that loads then requires a few seconds of SPOD before I can type (or finish typing) in a form field, or click on a link…what is this?
My guess is that it happens because Safari is looking in its enormous history of Things I May Have Typed Into a Form Field at One Time or Another. This is really annoying. The operation needs to be done in a separate MP task, certainly. More importantly, a much better algorithm/data structure needs to be implemented to avoid such incredibly long waits. (This rant assumes, of course, that it’s this search through some history that’s causing the problem).
I'll post a solution here if I find one.

Scaled Composite’s SpaceShipOne beat the Ansari X-Prize requirement altitude by a scant 124.0568 meters today. Congratulations!
This is the beginning of an exciting time. I’m more and more convinced that it will be private enterprise that gets humans to Mars in my lifetime, because politicians are catering to too many special interests to be capable of doing things right.

I just woke up, a few minutes ago, from my first night’s sleep in my new apartment. There are moving boxes scattered everywhere, and I don’t look forward today to the task of getting them straightened out. Moreover, I’ve got to find a place to put the litter box, because I’m bringing my cat home today.
How exciting.