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Security Hysteria

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Hysteria: Putting the guerilla in guerilla marketing!

By Phil Barron ⋅ February 1, 2007 ⋅ 2 comments

Who knew Adult Swim was a branch of al Qaeda?
Attempts at buzz marketing are nearly always lame, awkward, and obvious; that’s about the worst (or, perhaps, best) that can be said of them, most of the time. Rare indeed is the word-of-mouth campaign that triggers bomb scares, panics a city, and shuts down a commercial [...]

Hysteria: America, the gated community

By Phil Barron ⋅ May 17, 2006 ⋅ 2 comments

Just build the fence high enough and it will solve everything
The “Fortress America” crowd got bad news and good news from the Senate today. The upper chamber voted to allow those pesky undocumented immigrants a shot at citizenship - I mean really, what place is there in our society for uninvited guests whose grandchildren just [...]

Hysteria: Punk rock plus Indian appearance equals threat to the United Kingdom

By Phil Barron ⋅ April 6, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

What’s all this, then?
Via Alex at Martini Republic, we learn that British upper lips aren’t any stiffer than ours when it comes to hysterical overreaction (as MR is lamentably no more, the link is defunct):
British anti-terrorism detectives escorted a man from a plane after a taxi driver had earlier become suspicious when he started singing [...]

Hysteria: How to dismantle an imaginary bomb

By Phil Barron ⋅ January 13, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

Decaf lattes should be mandatory for SF police
How in the world do you get from this…
A 44-year-old man was arrested Tuesday night on suspicion of planting a bomb in the bathroom of a Starbucks coffee shop, police said….
Police said the bomb was powerful enough to seriously injure or kill someone if it had exploded.
…to this?
What [...]

Hysteria: Next time, check your journal forty-five minutes before departure

By Phil Barron ⋅ January 5, 2006 ⋅ One comment

Still more uncalm thinking
Via Shakespeare’s Sister, the synopsis of yet another episode of In These Suspicious Times: Write the words “suicide bomber” in/on your journal; carry said journal with you when you fly; get arrested. Sure to be a hit.
An airline passenger with the words “suicide bomber” written in his journal was arrested when his [...]

What does hysteria look like?

By Phil Barron ⋅ August 11, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

I was cooling my heels at the airport a few nights ago, waiting to meet M as she returned from yet another work trip. I really dislike airports these days; it’s not entirely because of heightened security measures (as Linus Van Pelt once said: I love humanity, it’s people I can’t stand), but the security [...]

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