As a kid there was nothing like dragging your finger across the dirty back window of your mom's minivan. Imagine lifting your finger to find you've created a Mona Lisa on the rear glass. Scott Wade of San Marcos, TX is perhaps the only person who could say he's done this.

'Wash Me' taken to a new level - the Dust Art of Scott Wade

A bit of the old Ultraviolence.

Korova Milk Bar | East Village, NYC

The genetic code specifies all the proteins that a cell makes. The second code, superimposed on the first, sets the placement of the nucleosomes, miniature protein spools around which the DNA is looped. The spools both protect and control access to the DNA itself.

Scientists Say They’ve Found a Code Beyond Genetics in DNA - New York Times

Police said the group were allegedly carrying bags with wires sticking out, making it look like a bomb, while meandering and dancing to music as part of a "zombie dance party" Saturday night.

One group member said the "weapons" were actually backpacks modified to carry a homemade stereos...

Inspector Janee Harteau: "It's not a case of (police) overreacting."

Um, yes it is.

'Zombies' arrested in downtown Minneapolis

The air marshals, whose identities are being concealed, told 7NEWS that they're required to submit at least one report a month. If they don't, there's no raise, no bonus, no awards and no special assignments.

"Innocent passengers are being entered into an international intelligence database as suspicious persons, acting in a suspicious manner on an aircraft ... and they did nothing wrong," said one federal air marshal.

27B Stroke 6 blogged this yesterday but didn't link the actual story they were quoting. Its worth clicking through to some of the other stories at the bottom of this story. Basically, the Atlanta Air Marshall Director has quit his job and is raising a public stir about bad policies at the Air Marshal's service.

TheDenverChannel.com - News - Marshals: Innocent People Placed On 'Watch List' To Meet Quota

James Dobbins, a former Bush administration envoy to Afghanistan who now heads military analysis for the Rand Corp., said choice of targets by Israel was the key and may be misdirected.

"The military rationale seems rather thin, since many of the targets have no conceivable relationship to Hezbollah," he said.

I wish I could find the actual source for this quotation. Its possible that the sentence that followed this in the original source material started with the word "However." Fortunately I have reporters to do the thinking for me.

Having said that, this story finds numerous commentators who seem to be saying that Israel is intentionally punishing the civilian population of Lebanon in order to influence them politically.

Military analysts question Israeli bombing - Yahoo! News

Savi is not among the companies competing to supply the RFID technology for U.S. passports.

Jello Biafra alleged in his talk at Hope that Tom Ridge's relationship with Savi might be the reason the State Department was trying so hard to hammer the round peg of RFID into the square hole of electronic passports. This does not appear to be the case, however. We're back to the previous theory that the State Department's offices simply haven't been renovated since the era of lead paint.

Passport to pry - Salon

Iranians... believe that their country... should stay out of the Arabs' fight with Israel and focus on improving living standards at home...

The shop where he works abuts a vast mural depicting a female suicide bomber with a baby in her arms, accompanied by the words I LOVE MOTHERHOOD, BUT I LOVE MARTYRDOM MORE. Frustration with such propaganda underpins young people's reactions to the conflict.

TIME.com: Meanwhile, The View From Inside Iran -- Jul 31, 2006 -- Page 1

When we first went, one by one, into the room with the interrogating officer they used that line about "America is at war, and Canada may not take that seriously..." and "since 9-11, we take these things seriously."

U.S. border idiots ban Canadian rock ban from entering the U.S. for 5 years because they lied about whether they were playing a live show.

I take it very seriously that U.S. border agents would evoke war in the context of visa requirements that exist for the purpose of economic protectionism and not national security.

EconoCulture - Homeland Security: Why the Grey is Banned in the US

The complaint, available here as a PDF, charges Rombom with obstruction of justice and with witness tampering, alleging that in April 2006 Rombom impersonated a federal investigator at the request of a client who had hired him to locate a government informant who was central to the client's money-laundering indictment in 2003.

The charges have nothing to do with HOPE, and sound rather serious, in fact.

FBI Charges HOPE Speaker with Witness Tampering, Obstructing Justice - Security Fix