But I actually kind of miss the feeling of getting a nice stamped letter in the mail. Whenever I actually got a personal letter as a child, I just felt special. It was seeing the handwriting of the person writing to you, it was the structure of the letter that you could tell the person took time to plan it out so that they wouldn't be wasting a stamp. Now that I mostly use email for long form personal communications, I just don't see the precision or eloquence of words that I got through the mail nearly as much. People just tend to write something and send it out, knowing that it's pretty much free.

I suspect I found the link talking about the work you're referring to by Dr. Colin Groves: http://pubpages.unh.edu/~jel/512/dogs_brains.html

" Humans are always going to be humans, " I agree with this completely. If this sort of policy is going to be implemented, a way should be found to allow it to be done completely by computers with a method of scanning to automatically detect threats.

At least I'm not dropping my follicles all over the internet where anyone within a worldwide radius can get to it.

I, for one, welcome our new bicentennial overlords!

welcome ourselves as overlords!