THE United States has slapped a ban on Vegemite, outraging Australian expatriates there.
The bizarre crackdown was prompted because Vegemite contains folate, which in the US can be added only to breads and cereals.

Expatriates say that enforcement of the ban has been stepped up recently and is ruining lifelong traditions of having Vegemite on toast for breakfast.

Thanks, Boing Boing.

There have been no significant terrorist attacks against the U.S. since the release of the iPod in October 2001, thus demonstrating the value of iPods in fighting terrorism.

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It’s a good idea to add fingerprints and digitally-signed photographs to passports and visa applications. Nobody’s interest is served by having weak identification schemes on our passports: such systems actually increase the chances that passports will be stolen, altered, and fraudulently used. Indeed, the 9/11 Commission’s report details a factory that Al Qaeda had created in Afghanistan for doing just that with captured passports.

At the same time, it’s a bad idea to start using biometrics to pick individuals out of a crowd — that is, to use them for primary identification — since it’s notoriously inaccurate and far more subject to abuse.