1010 WINS had a story on Tuesday about a DHS security test at the Exchange Place PATH station.

I personally don’t think that X-Ray machines and metal detectors are an effective security measure on public transit. What minor deterrent these measures may have are more then outweighed by the intrusion on our rights. I have refused to take the subway when asked to under go a bag search in the past, and hopefully it won’t come to that here, options to get cross the Hudson are rather limited.

I swung by, and at this point it seems like a random sample of people are being screened. I’ll try to get some pictures of the setup before this test ends.

Last year when I bought my camera at Yodobashi in Osaka, they threw in a free gadget that screws into the tripod mount and attaches to the top of a sode (or green tea) bottle, effectively turning said bottle into a quick and dirty tripod. Look like someone is now selling this for $20.

Personally, I said “hunh, nifty” and tossed it in a drawer somwhere and use my mini=tripod.

[via Gizmodo]

I’m testing to see if this bloglines feed is working or not.  That and this (Escher’s “Relativity” in LEGO) is really cool.