Laptop Burka

There have been some stupid products marketed to computer users over the years.

Now there is one more.

The laptop burka allows you to hide the shame and humiliation that comes with sitting outdoors with a sheet over your head while you type away on your Dell.

In case you're wondering, yes, it would get very hot under there. Instead of a Dell, perhaps you should invest in a Panasonic ToughBook in case multiple drops of sweat fly off your nose like tiny liquid ski jumpers headed for your keyboard.

As Scott Adams said, “There's nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot.”

Via Dvice

What Not To Wear - Getting Arrested Edition

Via The Smoking Gun

Texas Politician Shows Her Ignorance

A Republican Texas state legislator, Betty Brown, has shown how gloriously ignorant she is in general, and how unprepared she is to live in a new global environment specifically.

In House testimony, she complained that the names of Asian-Americans are way too difficult to pronounce, but she has a pretty simple solution in mind:

“Rather than everyone here having to learn Chinese — I understand it’s a rather difficult language — do you think that it would behoove you and your citizens to adopt a name that we could deal with more readily here?”

Wow.

She's not backing down from her earlier statement under pressure, either. In a statement made to a rep from the Organization of Chinese Americans, Brown clarified her position:

“Can’t you see that this is something that would make it a lot easier for you and the people who are poll workers if you could adopt a name just for identification purposes that’s easier for Americans to deal with?”

But she's not a racist. Republicans are simply misunderstood.

Lawmaker defends comment on Asians