Just spray your troubles away

Speaking of emails, I got one over a week ago from Rob, our First Known Regular Reader™, and my procrastination over it resulted in being scooped by Paul at GeekPress (although it may have been Boing Boing who first took notice of this):  the military applications of s¡££y $t®ïng.

As you will note if you try to follow that link, the story is no longer there.

Bummer.  Then again, maybe it's not a bummer at all.

The story went into great detail, complete with lots of pictures, of how the child's toy s¡££y $t®ïng is easily used to foil the tactics of many terrorists in Iraq and elsewhere, and it obviously attracted a great deal of attention on the web.

I guess you'll have to take our word for it that is was pretty cool.

But although the website doesn't say so, my guess is that this was giving away too much useful information to the enemy—after all, when he knows how you're foiling his best tactics, he's more inclined to change his methods so as not to be foiled like that any more, and that would defeat the whole purpose of using your "secret weapon."  Which means that, although this was not my original intent, I've ended up being glad I didn't post about this as soon as I became aware of it.

Being the foresighted guy I am, it never occurred to me that I could be jeopardizing our military's safety by publishing that, and I agree with the webmaster who took the story down.  Sorry about that, folks.

But it was way cool.

UPDATE:  I'm actually surprised that no one's asked yet, but if any one is really curious, I'll be glad to tell you the basic idea behind the above if you email me.  Unless you do so from al-zarqawi@aljazeera.net or something.  Of course, if I suspected that anyone associated with the enemy paid any attention to me at all I would be more cautious about that.  Email is one thing, but my posts are as searchable as anyone else's—which is why I also changed the name of the product being used into the strange-looking combination of characters you now see above.  I did the same in the comments, since they're just as searchable as the main post.

Comments

[Rob]

For the record, I didn't find that site off of Boing Boing. I used to read that site till it turned into a p*rn portal. I found it while searching for s¡££y $t®ïng in preperation for building my 6 barreled s¡££y $t®ïng Gatlin Gun. You can never shoot s¡££y $t®ïng fast enough with just a can in each hand...