NASA provides a guide to watching the Quadrantid meteor shower (Boing Boing).

The New Yorker has a long profile of a legendary pickpocket. (Bruce Schneier)

So the FBI really was conducting counterterrorism operations inside the Occupy movement. As a friend of mine remarked last night, it's hard to ignore the radicals when they keep being proved ( Read more... )

So I went to see The Avengers last night, and even though that's only 2 days after opening, I feel like I've missed the fannish wave. My flist has been overwhelmed with superhero-squee ( Read more... )