Miéville on Haiti

China Miéville weighs in on Haiti.

He didn't mention the effect of the aid embargo on water treatment plans prior to the coup, but other than that, he hits all the key points.

Life imitates Blogs

I've been following the TSA/backscatter thingie/aggressive physical search thing that's going around on the Interwebs. Mostly, I've been reading it with the mixed headspace of thinking that it's wrong, but not being overly concerned because I discounted it as a mostly American thing.

Yeah, I knew that we have these "I see naked people" scanners in Canadian airports, but I mostly imagined that they would be used on flights to the U.S. I figured I'd probably hafta worry about them for my next trip to Haiti.

Yesterday, after I walked through the metal detector at the airport -- flying Vancouver to Toronto -- the guy behind me was "randomly selected for additional screening" and asked to step in to the Naked Scanner. Until that moment, I hadn't really registered that the Naked Scanner was sitting there. And yet, there it was.