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The TSA’s Instagram Feed Is Terrifying and Totally Awesome
Wow, just … wow. Check out TSA’s instagram feed to see what people try to carry on airplanes these days! The feed is essentially a gallery of some of the craziest items people try to get past security checkpoints. There’s no shortage of material—the TSA claims an average of 40 firearms often loaded are seized […]
How NASA reinvented the tortilla, and other tales of food in space
“Houston, we have a tortilla problem.” CNET’s Daniel Terdiman visited the food lab at NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, and wrote a fascinating piece with a related photo gallery. In the old days, NASA fed its astronauts plenty of military-grade MREs, or meals ready to eat. But over time, the agency determined that the […]
Contact your representatives to save NTIS
Federal technical reports are a critical piece of the nation’s scientific literature. But technical reports are in danger. We’ve been tracking on S.2206 the “Let me google that for you” Act which seeks to shut down the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) (here’s the Bill text sponsored by Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn with 5 cosponsors […]
Here’s all of the NSA revelations in one chart
We’ve been following [[Edward Snowden]] since his first leaks of NSA documents. But wow, this is quite the chart that ProPublica has put together. It’s really something to see all of the leaks in this visual format. Thanks ProPublica! This is a plot of the NSA programs revealed in the past year according to whether […]
Analysis of COL FDLP task force final report #alaac14
June 26, 2014 / Leave a comment
(Please note, if you’d prefer to read a PDF of this post, there’s a “print” button at the bottom of the page) James A. Jacobs and James R. Jacobs, Free Government Information (FGI) On Monday, the ALA Committtee on Legislation’s (COL) FDLP task force released its final Final Report and Recommendations. American Library Association. Committee […]
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