First the really kind of scary one that a couple of you have already picked up (sorry if you've seen it already).

US plans massive data sweep
The US government is developing a massive computer system that can collect huge amounts of data and, by linking far-flung information from blogs and e-mail to government records and intelligence reports, ( Read more... )

Ignoring, for a moment, the issues brought on by silly apartment management practices, there are good things still going on ( Read more... )

I got hooked on comic books at a young age. My father is to blame for that.

Unlike many of his peers, he didn't throw away (or have thrown away) all of his old comic books. There weren't many, just a couple dozen issues of Detective Comics, Superman, Batman and a handful of other random titles. Most of them were DC comics, there were only (if I ( Read more... )