If you've been reading reddit regularly )and who hasn't?( you've probably heard about the backscatter X-ray machines that are being deployed to airports across the United States. As of this month, the rules have gotten stricter than ever. In a nutshell, anyone passing through a backscatter-enabled security checkpoint has a choice: Let a TSA agent see through your clothes, or let a TSA agent touch your most intimate areas.

Last Friday , we introduced reddit gold "creddits", which are essentially one-month gift certificates you can bestow upon deserving redditors. Over the weekend, we included three creddits as a bonus to anyone who signed up for a year of gold. The test went well, with hundreds of months being given and hundreds of redditors getting to try gold for the first time. And today, we've added creddits to the reddit gold shoppe . They're the same price as regular subscriptions: $3.