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A start-up company is offering nude air travel, with caveats: you have to be dressed until the plane takes off and then put your clothes back on before landing.

But somehow the whole idea reminds me of a vision I had about six months ago, when flying on one of my innumerable plane trips since the 9/11 disaster. It occurred to me that security checks had become so invasive that I began to expect travelers to be forced to disrobe before being allowed to reach the departure gates. And then I saw a ghastly picture of a long line of naked people shuffling off to the showers xray machines, and then entering a long narrow empty tube of aluminum that reminded me of a boxcar.

Travel is a right, not a privilege. We should not have to sacrifice other basic rights in order to engage in it.

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Everybody's pretty much seen this before, but I wanted a quick reference to it.

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Don't you just hate it when you commented out some code and then you start trying to test the functionality contained in the commented-out section?

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Along the same lines, I take far more than the objective quantity of amusement contained therein from the fact that the current beta of IntelliJ Idea I am using is Build 666. It's actually quite stable and bug-free. The new release is due Any Day Now. I find it likewise amusing to imagine that this build could be the release candidate.

And while I'm talking about it, Idea is a positively wonderful development environment for Java. Check out the Overview of version 3.0. That document is a work-in-progress and may only be available to members of the Early Access Program, but I suspect the direct link will work for anyone.