Extreme geekdom ahead-it helps if you have understand the Macintosh interface. If you do, this is funny as hell. If not, you’ll probably think “whaaaa?!”, but it’s all good.

The iTunes 5 Announcement From the Perspective of an Anthropomorphized Brushed Metal User Interface Theme

Not a bad, just a I’m-off-but-have-to-do-all-these-things-I-don’t-want-to-do. Responsibilities and what not. Did manage to join a fingerprint database though. It bothers me, but it’s more a philosophical bother: it’s so fucking stupid. Since I know my fingerprints are in the database, I know to be extra cautious when robbing that bank i.e. the smart people (the ones really motivated to beat the system) will find a way around this, as they always do.

I wonder how many databases my prints will eventually get into. Where they’ll go, what sort of crimes they’ll be cross checked for: high profile or baffling murders or that car ring that the cops just can’t crack. Naturally, I’m looking at this personally, but these searchs won’t be, it’s just a search.

No, I could not have gotten my license renewed if didn’t give them a fingerprint. I thought briefly of refusing, but then I couldn’t legally drive in the US. Which is kinda tempting at times, but that’s the point. The government put people over the barrel and most of us recognized the pratical aspects, said “fuck it” and went about our day. Nothing really changed when giving the fingerprints, I’m not suddenly a government guinea pig as they test new drugs, there are no men in suits watching over me, but, but, but….It feels wrong, like taking a brick from the wall and putting it in the road to hell.

Do I own my fingerprint? DNA? If so, how and when do I lose the right to it?