oddities

Scott Adams offers a chilling prediction of interview tactics in the future.

Here’s a scary thought: Scientists can already monitor the brain and identify attraction and repulsion to various stimuli. Suppose an employer of the future decided to scan job applicants for unacceptable forms of hatred. They could put the sensors on your head, then show you pictures of various types of people, and measure your responses. In other words, science can already identify thought crimes.

If the brain scan shows that you hate Elbonians, but you have no record of ever discriminating against anyone, should the potential employer be allowed to deny you employment on that basis?

It’s going to happen.

Scary! Currently it’s totally within their right to deny you based on anything except whatever’s currently illegal to discriminate against. What other applications can this type of technology be used for?

Red Hot Chili Peppers have a song on their Stadium Arcadium album called “Especially in Michigan.”

White clouds I’m in
A mitten full of fisherman
C’mon Huckleberry Finn
Show me how to make her grin
…well I’m in Michigan

I think “Mitten full of Fisherman” should be our state motto.

Matt Wallace from CFMC fame recently starred in a college video production Miles Barnaby – Canadian Lawyer - there’s not much of a story but the 7-minute video is hilarious.

Found this via digg or some other place:

How do you figure out whether a foam firefighting system in an air force hangar is set up correctly and works? Well you turn it on for a few seconds, to make sure it’s got pressure and everything. Ellsworth AFB foam test

Too funny.