What Will People Think Of Next?

• If you are feeling a bit cynical these days about the State of the Union and you’re a bit of a smart ass like me — not to mention you find that it’s always fun and game at airport security for you no matter what anyway, try this out. You can purchase a copy of the First Ten Amendments to the Constitution of the United States printed on both sides of a sturdy, pocket-sized pieces or metal and next time you travel by air, take the Bill of Rights - Security Edition along with you so when you’re asked to empty your pockets, you can proudly toss the Bill of Rights into that plastic bin. After all you need to get used to tossing those freedoms away so the government can enforce inspections and the USA Patriot Act; if you keep the Bill of Rights with you when you travel, it’ll only lead to alarms going off and trouble.
• From the “Files of Owie!” comes this invention: Pierced Glasses! No, the glasses themselves aren’t pierced. Your bridge is pierced to keep your glasses on. James Sooy and Oliver Gilson started in November ‘04 working on the prototype in Sooy’s garage. They are currently on Mark III. They hope to one day sell their product for $75 - $100 a pop. Oddly, while I didn’t mind LASIK or having my ears pierced twice or my nose pierced, I find Pierced Glasses a bit on the extreme side and looking a bit painful, but Sooy has a different opinion:
  

  Paying two thousand dollars to have someone cut your eyes and shoot a laser in them (just so you don’t have to wear glasses) seems extreme to me… but I don’t have a problem with that either. And we’ll give you your dose of X-treme Eye Action for a twentieth of the price! X-TREME!!!

tags: Patriot Act

One comment

1. on June 2, 2006 at 1:40 pm

   Tamara said:

   Youch, that is bizarre-o!

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