Swans on Tea

Why, yes, I can. I just happened to find an extra one floating around here.
The International Earth Orientation and Reference Systems Service (IERS) has announced a leap second.
A positive leap second will be introduced at the end of December 2008.
The sequence of dates of the UTC second markers will be:
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Kill Switches and Remote Control at Schneier.
Don’t be fooled by the scare stories of wireless devices on airplanes and in hospitals, or visions of a world where no one is yammering loudly on their cellphones in posh restaurants. This is really about media companies wanting to exert their control further over your electronics. They not [...]

This is the kind of post I start reading, and I begin to furrow my eyebrows as phrases and sentences pop up that don’t seem right or are obviously wrong. I though it was just bad science journalism, but realized it’s a rant-y agenda piece, with the supposed “science” reporting as a [...]