Let me get this straight … somebody finally does something sensible in regards to airport security — Canada is ignoring nail scissors, and instead checking for bombs — and a moron (MP John McCallum) thinks that this is going to present a danger on airplanes?

Mr. McCallum (and others of his ilk): a person cannot take over a plane with a pair of scissors. Can not. They will be overpowered by the crew and/or their fellow passengers and arrested when the plane lands.

In the rare event that a person can take over a plane with a pair of scissors, it is not because of the scissors. It is because they are Chuck Norris.

Photo is by Jason Lee. Found at Best Week Ever with more goats ridden by monkeys on tightropes.
Webcomic is Penny Arcade by Gabe and Tycho.

In less than four weeks, Back to the Future will be re-released in theatres in the UK, presumably in celebration of my daughter’s birth. Today, the Big Bad Blog celebrates the awesome grandeur of this spectacle with a special morning coffee.

(A Back to the Future Tattoo, photo by David Lewis.)

In part two of Back to the Future, Marty travels to the future — October 2015, to be exact. Here is a list of things that the movie predicted correctly.

Of course, Back to the Future II was not entirely accurate other. Not including the double-tie (which still could happen), here is a list of things that we can say with confidence won’t be happening by 2015. I look forward to the author of that article being wrong on several accounts, such as hoverboards.

Have you built a time machine?

Have you been sitting putting off using it, for fear of the grandfather paradox?

Fear no more! Grandfather paradox-free time travel is now available!

(Math from Tenso Graphics.)

There are plenty of people in the world who cannot read Chinese (or Japanese). Yet a significant portion of these people insist on getting tattooed with Chinese (or Japanese) characters. Here are their stories.

London is amazingly unfriendly to the disabled. It has many old buildings which are (unsurprisingly) inaccessible. Most of the tube stations require that patrons traverse stairs, nevermind the conundrum of minding the gap while in a wheelchair. Apparently the brains behind the 2012 Olympics are extending this inaccessibility to the internet, as well.