Linked List: November 14, 2010

Sunday, 14 November 2010

Boxcar 4.0 

Nice update to a great app and service. Boxcar gives you highly-configurable push notifications from Twitter, email, RSS, Google Voice, and more. Pretty much push notifications for anything. Free with ads, $4.99 without.

MG Siegler argues that Apple should buy Boxcar. I don’t know about that, but it’s damn good.

The Lobbyists Behind the TSA’s New Naked Body Scanners 

Timothy Carney:

Many experts and critics suspect that the full-body “naked scanners” recently deployed at U.S. airports do little to make us more secure, and a lot to make us angry, embarrassed and late. For instance, the scanners can’t see through skin, and so weapons or explosives can be hidden safely in body cavities.

But this is government we’re talking about. A program or product doesn’t need to be effective, it only needs to have a good lobby. And the naked-scanner lobby is small but well-connected.