New stories: The Shy Guy 4 by GoodFortune, High School Bully 4 by BBMSN and Walking Home by Magus

New stories:

• The Shy Guy 4: Justin by GoodFortune
• High School Bully 4 by BBMSN
• Walking Home by Magus

Lego...

• Ultimate Collector's Millennium Falcon--500 frickin' bucks!
• Millennium Falcon Stop Motion
• Dragon
• Endless
• Skyscrapers
• Nicorette
• Wii Zapper
• Guns and Catapults
• Iron Man

New story: The Barber Holiday Special: A War on Christmas Carol by Texzilla

New story: The Barber Holiday Special: A War on Christmas Carol by Texzilla

'Healthy' Santa spurns fat suit

Animal activists' anger after aquarium puts Santa hats on whales

Maury Christmas!--So evil.

New stories: High School Bully 3 by BBMSN, Kingdom Come by dymondbolt and The Office Boy by John D.

New stories:

• High School Bully 3 by BBMSN
• Kingdom Come by dymondbolt
• The Office Boy by John D.

FISA Confusion and Correction--Joe Klein fesses up while Time Magazine digs itself deeper into the hole they got themselves in.

Facebook caves in to Beacon criticism--Thanks to Slashdot's jnadke for collating a list of sites participating in Beacon: eBay, Fandango, College Humor, Busted Tees, iWon, Citysearch, Pronto.com, echomusic, Travelocity, Allposters.com, Blockbuster, Bluefly.com, CBS Sports, Dotspotter, ExpoTV, Gamefly, Hotwire, Joost, Kiva, Kongregate, LiveJournal, Live Nation, Mercantila, The NBA, The New York Times, Overstock.com, (RED), Redlight, Seamless Web, Sony Online Entertainment, Sony Pictures, STA Travel, TheKnot, TripAdvisor, Travel Ticker, Typepad, viagogo, Vox, Yelp, WeddingChannel.com, and Zappos.

Amazon Kindle a fraud?--Apparently the Whispernet network used for wireless downloads isn't available everywhere in the US as people are initially led to believe. Amazon should try better to rectify this misconception by making this info more prominent rather than burying it under all the marketing hoopla.

New story: My Roommate's Body 12 by Londonboy

New story: My Roommate's Body 12 by Londonboy

Blog Readers Out Anonymous Adults that Newspaper Refused to Identify--These adults who were responsible for a girl's suicide won't be facing criminal charges, but a civil lawsuit is certainly likely.

Facebook

• Facebook's Beacon just the tip of the privacy iceberg
• A Well-Deserved Court Loss For Facebook
• Bank intern busted by Facebook

Your rights online

• Wikipedia wins landmark privacy lawsuit in France
• Blogger Fights for Free Speech in New Jersey
• In global precedent, Google to hand over blogger's IP address

Amazon's Kindle--Will this new e-Book usher in a reading revolution?

• The Good
• The Bad
• The Ugly

New stories by Londonboy

New stories: Londonboy

• Flip, This House!
• Meanwhile, Across Town
• My Roommate's Body 11

Time Magazine's Joe Klein spreading FISA falsehoods--Glen Greenwald's masterful takedown of this pundit who has "neither the time nor legal background to figure out who's right". Salon

Sunday schooled

• 'More believe in devil than Darwin'
• Christians seek right to sue BBC for blasphemy
• 'Golden Compass' incenses both Christians and atheists--"Neither [William Donohue, head of the Catholic League nor Ellen Johnson, president of American Atheists] has yet seen the film, which opens Dec. 7." Whoop-fucking-doo.

TSA screeners order soldiers accompanying body of their fallen comrade home to strip to their skivvies--Oh, I'm sure they were just doing their job... looking busy.