Surely, you know Michael!

Oops, you're right. I'd forgotten about him. Not my fault, really. I've been standing on him for the last few years- along with much of the west coast, actually. We built a small city under his left armpit. We're almost finished mounting the Transamerica Pyramid to his navel in preparation for his upcoming sumo wrestling match with Rush Limbaugh. Sure, it's playing dirty, but we're hoping the release of gas caused by the inevitable puncture wound will move the Earth's orbit out by a few hundred thousand miles and solve global warming.

Sorry, I was talking about Clement Clarke Moore and Twas the Night Before Christmas. The poem gave us quite a bit of our modern Santa. Though I like the idea of MM and RL suma wrestling!

Big deal. Consider the following (especially the last two sentences) ...

"My password system is a mess - and I bet yours is, too," Nick Summers writes in Newsweek. "... Companies spend billions of dollars protecting their computer systems, and passwords are a linchpin. With so much riding on Americans' faulty passwords, there has to be a better way to make our technology secure - and it's taking shape inside Carnegie Mellon University's cyber-security-research department. ... The biometrics lab in particular is hard at work taking the fiction out of science-fiction movies like Minority Report. ... This is where Carnegie Mellon wows its visitors, with toys that can read a person's fingerprint from across the room, reverse-engineer a 3-D model of a face from a simple 2-D snapshot and recognize a moving iris at 13 metres. Nearly every gadget here would give a civil libertarian a stroke."

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/soci......1324241/

You can read more of the Newsweek article here:

http://www.newsweek.com/id/217014