New story: Fortune Favors the Bold 3 by jobberinnyc

New story: Fortune Favors the Bold 3 by jobberinnyc

Trying to Avoid Economic Calamity, Lawmakers Grope for Resolution--More and more people are getting pissed over the bailout which seems to mainly reward those who got greedy.

Internet history

• History of the Internet in 5 minutes
• How The Web Was Won
• NSF and the Birth of the Internet
• Decade old Yahoo Internet Life mags--A blast from the past
• The Insane True Story Behind the Birth of the Internet
• The 50 most significant moments of Internet history

Wikipedia

• Asylum-Seeker Rejected Based On Wikipedia, Appeals Court Reverts
• Judge puts defamation lawsuit against Wikipedia to the sword
• Deletionpedia: Where Wikipedia entries go to die--And the deletionists wanted its entry deleted from Wikipedia.

New stories: Another Choice 9 by xythan_shadow, A Change Could Do You Good 3 by Flashpoint and Trading Places by in2other

New stories:

• Another Choice 9 by xythan_shadow
• A Change Could Do You Good 3 by Flashpoint
• Trading Places by in2other

Aw, shoot

• Man Accidentally Kills Wife During Botched Satellite TV Install
• Man uses gun for backscratcher, shoots himself
• Man shoots himself five times in head and survives

Guns

• Gun dealer wants weapons on campus
• Federal judge upholds Atlanta airport gun ban
• Texas school district to let teachers carry guns
• At gun shows, the terrorists always win
• Man Shot by 'Craigslist' Gun Takes Aim at Site
• Offender can 'use' a handgun even without carrying one
• Botched Sting: Killed With Gun She Was Supposed to Buy

New story: Suited Up by Cicero

New story: Suited Up by Cicero

Religion and Politics

• For many U.S. Christians, it's God before mortgage--When things get thithed, you can't pay the bills.
• Pastors To Preach Politics From The Pulpit--Put these putzes into prison
• Catholic maternity wards 'face closure' if Australian abortion law passes--How uncharitable.
• Southern Evangelicals And Torture--Nearly 60% support it.
• Swedish family bedevilled by girl's beastly ID number--Her automatically-assigned personal identity number.

Courting expenses

• Man falls during prayer, sues for $2.5 million
• Light bulb feud sparks $80,000 in fines, fees
• $21 theft, $1 million bond
• Jury Awards $860,000 To Tenants In Wrongful Eviction Case
• Facebook libel costs £22,000

New story: Jock Buddy 4 by derek phillips

New story: Jock Buddy 4 by derek phillips

Legendary actor Paul Newman dies at age 83

Eagle Eye--A suspense-filled thriller starring Shia LaBeouf and Michelle Monaghan, Eagle Eye looks into what can happen when government surveillance is taken too far. Salon

Government and Privacy

• EFF Battles Dangerous Attempts to Circumvent Electronic Privacy Law
• F.B.I. Says It Obtained Reporters' Phone Records
• FBI seizes local Md. library computers
• ACLU back in court over National Security Letters
• Privacy groups bristle at expanded Customs database
• AT&T thanks the Blue Dog Democrats with a lavish party Salon
• Opposed to Wiretap Amnesty? Run a TV Ad for Six Bucks

Surveillance Says...

• Surveillance made easy
• Users talk the talk, but don't walk the walk on privacy
• ISP Web Tracking Dead As Net Eavesdropping CEO Resigns--Thanks to the inquiries of Congress.
• ISPs Will All Spy on Their Customers, Professor Warns--Though AT&T and Verizon now say they won't, for marketing purposes anyway.
• Police quiz BT on secret Phorm trials

New stories: Fortune Favors the Bold 2 by jobberinnyc, James and the Leeches by Cicero and Teacher's Pet 8 by Redkage

New stories:

• Fortune Favors the Bold 2 by jobberinnyc
• James and the Leeches by Cicero
• Teacher's Pet 8 by Redkage

Judge Declares Mistrial in RIAA-Jammie Thomas Trial--I thought something was up when they whined about Ray Beckerman AKA NewYorkCountryLawyer and his zealousness.

DRM

• Wal*Mart shutting down DRM server, nuking your music collection
• Yahoo Music follows MSN into DRM controversy--But unlike Microsoft, they're issuing refunds.
• NBC-Vista copy-protection snafu reminds us why DRM stinks--"Remember: DRM isn't about fighting piracy. It's about the ability to strictly control how we consume content."
• PlayStation 3 video DRM: two strikes and you're out
• RIAA: DRM not dead and likely will make comeback
• Libraries: Eliminate DRM!

Copy-fight

• 100 groups demand to see secret anticounterfeiting treaty
• White House Opposes Expanded DOJ Copyright Enforcement
• Pirate Bay Wins Court Case, Italian Block Lifted

New story: Another Choice 8 by xythan_shadow

New story: Another Choice 8 by xythan_shadow

Online Bailout Outrage Jumps to Streets, and Into Lawmakers' Inboxes

• BuyMyShitPile.com: Hey Washington, can you buy my bad investments too?
• Who could have ever seen this financial mess coming? Salon
• Hank Paulson's bailout 419 letter

St. Paul dropping all misdemeanor charges for journalists arrested during RNC--And the city's been indemnified over lawsuits and such.

Your Government at work

• Shadow Government Statistics
• Lies, Damned Lies, a Searchable Database of Lies
• An interactive guide to Bush-administration lawbreaking

New morph: Geek2Jock

New morph: Geek2Jock

Apple declares: "OK, we're evil"--If they think they can suppress the bad press, they have another think coming.

• MailWrangler and the Apple App Store--Another one bites the dust.
• iPhone App Store: Let the Market Decide--And the market is very lucrative indeed.
• Inside the iPhone App Store acceptance process--Considering its capricious nature, this probably works just as well.
• Apple 'Solves' Problem With App Store Rejections--MacRumors member NightGeometry sez, "The first rule of app-store rejection is don't talk about app store rejection."
• Apple Blocks Developers from Bypassing App Store--Ad hoc application distribution shut down and now one developer will be moving on to Google's Android.

Can't take the heat

• Sued for 'OK' eBay feedback
• VC Firm Subpoenas TheFunded For Negative Review--Haven't these guys heard of the Streisand Effect?
• All Criticism of This Website Is Hereby Forbidden
• Circuit City Rethinks MAD Magazine Ban, Apologizes
• Nike to China on fingering anonymous blogger: Just Do It

New story: Hunter: C.P.A. by Aardvark

New story: Hunter: C.P.A. by Aardvark

Poli-Techs

• Oregon: publishing our laws online is a copyright violation--Here's an update.
• He's giving you access, one document at a time--Profit shouldn't prevail over public service. More power to him.
• A City Tries to Stop a Woman from Linking to Its Website: Why Most Challenges to Links Will Not Succeed, and What the Rare Exceptions May Be--She's suing the city for violating her First Amendment rights. And on another matter, blocking linking is 'preposterous'.

Bloatware

• The PC Decrapifier
• Sony's Amazing Crapware-Free PC--They originally planned on making customers pay an extra $50 for the privilege. Shit like this is why I boycott them.
• Industry Rethinks Moneymaking Software Practice--Best Buy charges $30 to remove the crap.

Wi-Fied

• Porn on a plane! Concerns raised over naughty in-flight WiFi
• DIA keeps Wi-Fi on the mild side
• "Wi-Fi Squatting" a Crime – By the Victim
• Bill criminalizing WiFi leeching shot down, and rightly so
• Onerous New Law to Phase Out Wi-Fi

New stories: A Change Could Do You Good 2 by Flashpoint, The Sorcerer's Apprentice by in2other and Top Hat by DocOnHarly

New stories:

• A Change Could Do You Good 2 by Flashpoint
• The Sorcerer's Apprentice by in2other
• Top Hat by DocOnHarly

Yankee Stadium Going, Gone With a Win

• Sunblock ban at Yankee Stadium Causes Burning Problem
• Yankees will drag you out of the stadium if you try to go to the bathroom during "God Bless America"
• Signs of the times

Sued

• Teen sues choir teacher who called her 'ugly' and 'brat' during classroom altercation--This is what happens when a generation of self-entitled, overprotected kids grows up.
• 'Feminist' Columbia demonizes men, lawsuit claims
• Parents charged in starvation death sue city

FucksNews

• Fox News' Kelly asked whether Michelle Obama gave "her critics fodder" with word she didn't say
• Anti-War Protesters Meance Intrepid Fox News Reporter
• Fark.com sues over attempted hacking
• Fox TV news anchors enjoy plastic coffee--Guess news isn't the only thing they manufacture
• Best billboard ever

New story: Another Choice 7 by xythan_shadow

New story: Another Choice 7 by xythan_shadow

Creationism

• 'Creationism' biologist quits job--Because his comments were taken out of context.
• Who are the British creationists?
• Church of England makes 'ludicrous' apology to Charles Darwin - 126 years after his death

Caught on cam

• Camera Catches "Ding Dong" Caper
• Band "shoots" video by sending Data Protection Act requests to CCTVs that caught them performing
• Camera-Equipped Teddy Bear Catches Thief, Becomes Hero

Cool

• 3D Hologram
• Human Mirror
• Video of the Day: Behind Times Square

New story: Hunter: R.S.V.P. by Aardvark

New story: Hunter: R.S.V.P. by Aardvark

Online Identity

• When Google Owns You
• I.P. Address: Partially Personal Information
• How to Create the Perfect Fake Identity

Identity Theft

• US cracks 'biggest ID fraud case'
• The Man Who Lost His Name—and His Genetic Identity
• Mom accused of stealing daughter's identity to attend highschool and become a cheerleader
• ID theft by son leaves dad in lurch
• Fraud-prevention pitchman becomes ID theft victim
• TV star publishes bank details in anti-privacy editorial, gets ripped off

New story: True Heroes 5 by Redkage

New story: True Heroes 5 by Redkage

Kids

• Too Good to Pitch? 9-Year-Old Is Barred
• Is my kid a dick, or is he just 2? Salon
• The Wave shows how to turn children into Nazis
• Two-thirds of school-age children have an imaginary companion by age 7
• "Get me a robot arm that looks like the Terminator."--To replace the one bitten off by an alligator.

Hooligans

• Boy admits to starting Calif. blaze, police say
• Cops arrest boy, 9
• Boy, 8, hands out pile of $20 bills - all fake

Uniformity

• Boy, 13, bullied after losing his hair is banned from wearing a baseball cap to school
• Texas High School Student Told Rosary Is 'Gang Symbol'
• Long-haired Needville boy can start school, mom says

New story: Another Choice 6 by xythan_shadow

New story: Another Choice 6 by xythan_shadow

Race

• Barack Obama and White Privilege
• Fatimah Ali: 'Race war' in America
• Former state employee wins $150,000 in reverse discrimination case
• Southern racists adopt "Canadian" as a euphemism for "black"
• University says sorry to janitor over KKK book
• White Americans No Longer a Majority by 2042
• True colors: Mom protests Unified enrollment form, claims bias against biracial kids
• RushmoreDrive: We need a black Google--No, we don't.
• Racial slur 'buried' by US group

New story: Hunter: W.A.S.P. by Aardvark

New story: Hunter: W.A.S.P. by Aardvark

Gay Marriage

• How We Got Gay Married
• Court Backs Paterson Regarding Gay Unions--"Gov. David A. Paterson was acting within his powers when he issued an executive order requiring government agencies to recognize same-sex marriages performed outside the state, a court ruled on Tuesday."
• A Milestone for Gays, A Boon for Massachusetts
• California prisons prepare for gay weddings
• Man Dressed as Bride to Marry Boyfriend

Schools

• Many support ex-principal in gay rights case--Ah, Floridans.
• Killer Claims 'Gay Panic' in Murder of Louisiana High School Teacher
• Gay kids need anti-bullying protection--Someone like Lawrence King could have used it.
• Teach 'the pleasure of gay sex' to children as young as five, say researchers
• College Wrestlers Pinned for Gay Porn Pics

Issues

• Plan to exhume cardinal is 'homophobic'
• Florida's gay adoption ban ruled unconstitutional--Sad they even had one to begin with.
• Bizarre Anti-Gay Comic
• Subway Fires Former Gay Porn Star
• Gay attack swept under the shrug

New story: Addicted to STUDD 3 by Absman420

New story: Addicted to STUDD 3 by Absman420

Count the Lies--He might win the election, but he's already lost his integrity.

• The Ugly New McCain
• McCain Barbs Stirring Outcry as Distortions
• Rove: "McCain has... gone one step too far."
• Lies, Damned Lies, And John McCain
• Howard Kurtz: The Anger Factor

Tech Trouble

• Revealed: The Internet's Biggest Security Hole
• Number of Bot-Infected PCs Skyrockets--Make sure yours ain't one of 'em.
• Network Solutions Hijacking Unassigned Sub-Domains
• Va. Supreme Court Strikes Down State's Anti-Spam Law
• 10 ways you might be breaking the law with your computer

More Spore

• Did 'Spore' copy protections backfire on EA?
• Amazon temporarily gags Spore critics, deletes and restores all customer reviews--They said "the reviews disappeared due to a 'glitch' in the system." ORLY?
• Spore's Piracy Problem
• Spore DRM could kill PC gaming
• Spore's DRM: EA versus the used game market

New authors: DocOnHarly, Flashpoint and in2other

New stories: With the Gay Male Transformation Archive gone, I contacted some of the authors to ask them if I could archive their stories on my site. Of those whose e-mail addresses weren't defunct (quite a few, sadly), three authors responded, and so I'd like to welcome DocOnHarly, Flashpoint and in2other aboard.

• Hammer Time by DocOnHarly
• A Change Could Do You Good by Flashpoint
• My Life as a Pipe by in2other

Work, work, work, work, work

• Need to call in sick? Here are the Do's and Don'ts
• Ten Worst Things You Can Say at Work
• Ten things your boss hates about you
• 'Millions bullied' in workplaces
• Courageous E-mail To Boss In Drafts Folder Since December The Onion

Educamation

• High school journalism students graded on ad revenue
• Teacher takes revenge in yearbook page
• Miss South Carolina Teen USA Explains Her TV Meltdown
• Seniors suspended over T-shirts
• McKinley principal won't be disciplined over student's 7-week suspension

New story: Another Choice 5 by xythan_shadow

New story: Another Choice 5 by xythan_shadow

Ox's Blog--Obsession To Possible Lifestyle Change: Brainiac To Dumb Jock

Apple AppStore "policies" appalling--And worse are their apologists' pandering comments. If the company just came out with clear guidelines (like Apple "has complete discretion over whether to include your web applications in any iPhone GTM Program" and may "reject Your Application for distribution for any reason, even if Your Application meets the Documentation and Program Requirements" really helps developers on the onset), this wouldn't be as big an issue.

• Podcaster rejected because it duplicates iTunes functionality--He wasted 3 months of his life thanks to Apple's anticompetitive attitude.
• The App Store's Exclusionary Policies
• Apple to iPhone Developers: Don't Compete With Us?
• The Broken Record Keeps Playing: Why Apple's App Store Approval Process is Broken
• A Bridge Too Far

Patently absurd

• Channel Intelligence Sues Just About Everyone Who Offers Wishlists
• U.S. Patent Office Rejects All Ninety-Five NeoMedia Patent Claims
• Qualcomm and Nokia Settle Patent Dispute--Finally.
• The Death of Google's Patents?
• Patent Gridlock Suppresses Innovation
• Patent Failure: How Judges, Bureaucrats, and Lawyers Put Innovators at Risk
• EFF warns 'Patent Busting Project' in danger
• Patent Troll Tracker

New story: An American Muscleman in London 19 by Londonboy

New story: An American Muscleman in London 19 by Londonboy

Copyright

• Copyright, Fraud and Window Taxes (No, not that Windows)
• Harvard studes give coop a lesson in Copyright 101
• Being Stupid And Litigious Is No Way To Go Through Life
• Copyright crusaders to launch cyber campaign
• Why JK Rowling won the Harry Potter lexicon lawsuit--The guy behind the encyclopedia shouldn't have used so much of the original material.

Copy-wrong

• Massive Takedown of Anti-Scientology Videos on YouTube--Turns out the DMCA requests were bogus.
• Proposed Copyright Law a 'Gift' to Hollywood, Info Groups Say
• EU pays for, then ignores study on copyright extension
• Nonprofit Distributes File Sharing Propaganda to 50,000 U.S. Students
• Disney's rights to young Mickey Mouse may be wrong

New story: CAFE Blues 4 by Jaypat

New story: CAFE Blues 4 by Jaypat

The War on Terror

• Olbermann: Republicans hijacked 9/11
• What we sacrificed in the name of security
• On 7th Anniversary Of Attacks, White House Claims Bin Laden Was Not The 'Mastermind' of Sept. 11
• YouTube Draws Line on Vids 'Intended to Incite Violence or Encourage Dangerous, Illegal Activities'--Looks like Lieberman got his way.
• Police seize War on Terror board game because its ski-mask "could be used in a criminal act"

Laptops

• Chertoff Misleads on Laptop Searches, Feingold Charges
• Travelers' Laptops May Be Detained At Border--Indefinitely.
• FISA and Border Searches of Laptops--Why stop at laptops when the free flow of information can be suppressed?

TSA

• Feds Set to Take Over Airline Watch List Checking, Again
• Delayed by her bra, air passenger is indignant
• "Federal Agent" Arrested At GABP--Powertrippin'

New story: Working at the Gym by Peterbilt

New story: Working at the Gym by Peterbilt

9/11 collapse mystery solved: scientists

Fathers

• Mike's Hard Lemonade Yields Hard Time
• Daughter Fails GED, Dad Jailed
• Court overturns father's grounding of 12-year-old
• Father's Day cards banned in Scottish schools
• Ocala Dad accused of arranging sex for son
• Man Held On Domestic Violence Charges For Spanking Adult Daughter Over $5000 Cellphone Bill
• PO Man Faces Charges for Cooling Off Combative Boy — With a Hose

Mothers

• Mother thrown out of jobcentre for bottle feeding her baby
• Ohio mom spared death for microwaving baby
• Mom AWOL Over Child Custody To Surrender--She was honorably discharged in the end.
• Mum defends 10-year-old bodybuilder
• Winnipeg 'white pride' mother regrets redrawing swastika on child's arm
• Sales queen sacked for daring to have children in line for £200,000 compensation
• Boy's 911 call leads to mother's arrest--"He said his mother was forcing him to blow into her car's Interlock device..."

New story: Another Choice 4 by xythan_shadow

New story: Another Choice 4 by xythan_shadow

Bad-vertising?

• 'Wanted' ads are too trigger-happy for U.K.
• 'Stereotype' ads face Europe ban
• Metro Orlando Mommies say billboard too scary--"Metro Orlando Mommies"? Puh-leaze.

Missed spellings

• Spelling "truely atrosious," says academic
• Newspaper misspells its own name on front page
• 'Supersede' most often misspelled--Guilty.
• After 99 years, Smartsville gets 2nd 's' back
• YouTube Comment Snob

'Shopped

• Photoshop Disasters Hurt My Eyes Beyond Repair
• L'Oreal Beyonce Ad Probably Just Got Too Much Sun
• Black Guy Photoshopped In The Onion

New morph: Fat2Fit 7

New morph: Fat2Fit 7

Fat Tuesday

• The Internet makes me feel fat
• Television's Plus-Size Sideshow
• Extra pounds may be costly for Ala. workers
• Five Financial Costs of American Obesity
• Beer Gut

Apple

• One Bad Apple: Apple is looking like what Microsoft was 10 years ago—a Bigfoot that squeezes smaller competitors
• New York Neighborhood Group Complains About Bad 'Apple' Store
• Comparing Apple's MobileMe Contrition with Google and Netflix
• UK ads watchdog slams Apple over 'misleading' iPhone ad--Because "iPhone did not support Flash or Java, both integral to many web pages." Despite them being bandwidth- and battery-intensive, I'd like to have the choice to run them them when they're needed.
• Apple bans a comic book, firestorm ensues
• Apple’s rejection of fart-joke iPhone app highlights serious problem
• Apple clamps down on Google AdWords
• Apple Admits British Man Invented iPod in 1979, Uses Him to Win Patent Lawsuit

Spore

• Spore: Intelligently designed?
• Spore Servers Overloaded, Crash--Kinda like what happened to MobileMe but this shows that when, not if, Electronic Arts goes bye-bye, so does your game.
• Spore customers lash out at DRM, sabotage Amazon score--Hope this raises awareness of the problem even though there are those trying to suppress it.

New story: The Master Tribe by John D.

New story: The Master Tribe by John D.

Net Neutrality

• The Net Neutrality Debate All On One Page
• The Delusions of 'Net Neutrality--University of Minnesota's Andrew Odlyzko looks into why service providers want to kill it
• Wanted: Writers for D.C. tech lobby group, secrecy mandatory--Anti-Net Neutrality opponents caught astroturfing.
• Net Neutrality Debate Is Secretly All About Internet Television, Net Pioneers Say
• Deep Packet Inspection discussion highlights a Net Neutrality weak spot

Usage

• Get Ready for a crackdown on broadband use
• Is AT&T Hinting At Usage-Based Pricing This Fall?
• Reports Indicate Telus Cancelling "Unlimited" Contracts
• Orange owns up to download speed limit for all 3G devices
• Comcast to Cap Data Transfers at 250 GB in Oct.

Telco

• FCC Order scolds Comcast for changing story on P2P blocking
• Comcast sues FCC, wants P2P throttling order overturned--FCC Chairman says they have "many still-unanswered questions about its new management techniques".
• Phone companies can't ban class action in Wash.
• Bell, Telus face class action over text message fees--Money-grubbing move to make customers pay for incoming text messages, even the spam ones
• Public Safety: Community Organizes To Purchase A Pay Phone After AT&T Removed Their Only One

New story: Another Choice 3 by xythan_shadow; New link: The Gallery of Herodotus

New story: Another Choice 3 by xythan_shadow

The Gallery of Herodotus--Amazing artwork featuring submission scenes from various stories, a couple from Cicero and Wolfpek. Hosting generously provided by Telemachus.

Religion

• 101 Atheist Quotes
• Online beauty pageant... for nuns--Awww, it was cancelled.
• Sarah Michelle Gellar blamed for rise in paganism--Shouldn't that be Alysson Hannigan's fault?
• Lightning strikes as man takes oath
• Bible In a Minute

Curses!

• What the F***?--Why we curse
• George Carlin: Seven Words
• Ken Levine: Dropping the F-C-C Bomb
• Tit okay, but cock is out
• When your name gets turned against you--Verizon, at first, refused to allow Libshitzes to have an email address with their own name on it and even "suggested they try misspelling their last name."
• Profanity works
• History of the Predictive Text Swearing
• The Clbuttic Mistake: When obscenity filters go wrong--"President Abraham Lincoln was buttbuttinated by an armed buttailant after a life devoted to the reform of the US consbreastution."

New story: An American Muscleman in London 18 by Londonboy

New story: An American Muscleman in London 18 by Londonboy

Media

• World views on free press mixed
• Massing of the Media
• Mainstream media dilemma

Stewart

• Is Jon Stewart the Most Trusted Man in America?
• Breakfast with Jon Stewart: 1 | 2 | 3
• Fox News flack hides behind anonymity to attack Jon Stewart

Colbert

• The "Colbert Bump" is real—at least on one side of the aisle
• Stephen Colbert at the National Portrait Gallery--Truly, a one-of-a-kind, once-in-a-lifetime exhibition
• Colbert vs. Rain--Epic battle!

New story: Teacher's Pet 7 by Redkage

New story: Teacher's Pet 7 by Redkage

Republican Double-Talking Points--Oh the hypocrisy.

DMCA

• Corporate critics feel the stinging lash of DMCA misuse
• The Inexact Science Behind DMCA Takedown Notices
• Air Force cracks software, carpet bombs DMCA
• Universal Says DMCA Takedown Notices Can Ignore 'Fair Use'
• Judge: Copyright Owners Must Consider 'Fair Use' Before Sending Takedown Notice

RIAA

• RIAA has to pay $107,951 for court costs in failed suit against disabled single mom
• Recording Industry Now Making Up Facts To Support Having ISPs Police File Sharing
• EFF attacks foundation of entire RIAA lawsuit campaign
• Profs tell Thomas judge making available isn't distribution
• Dell Colludes with RIAA, Disables Stereo Mix without Forewarning

Infringement

• Teen Arrested for Recording 20 Second Movie Clip.
• Breaking the law: one-third of US residents rip DVDs
• A Ringtone Tragedy
• Microsoft in Flickr rights shockr
• MIT's YouTomb catalogs videos yanked from YouTube

New story: Stud Twins by Peterbilt

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New story: Another Choice 2 by xythan_shadow

New story: Another Choice 2 by xythan_shadow

In a world of movie trailers, Don LaFontaine was king--The voice-over actor will be missed.

Palin-teology

• John McCain Chooses a Running Mate
• McCain Chooses Palin As VP--"As a woman, I am flattered by this scattershot pandering gesture." The Onion
• Or just pray it doesn't happen to you--Hey, she brought it up.

Your Government at Work

• White House missing up to 225 days of e-mail--And in no such hurry to recover them.
• Mukasey Refuses To Prosecute Officials Who Politicized DOJ--Says "not every wrong, or even every violation of the law, is a crime." Hmm, pretty much explains how the Bush administration is getting away with murder.
• Appeals court upholds CIA leak lawsuit dismissal--So now that there are no pending investigations, will The White House finally comment on the Plame leak?
• Report: Gonzales mishandled classified wiretap docs
• Are they really going to gut the Endangered Species Act?
• Washington offers no relief for savers--Where's your bailout now?
• Court: Beef Exporters Can't Test for Mad Cow Disease

Vote machinations

• How Design Can Save Democracy--What will it take to design a better ballot.
• Ohio's voting machine glitch exposed--Premier Election Solutions nee Diebold: Incompetent or malicious?
• States shelve costly voting machines out of fears about accuracy, security

New story: The Interview 3 by Titan

New story: The Interview 3 by Titan

Unconventional

• DemocracyNow's Amy Goodman Arrested at RNC--More like DemocracyNot though the Dems had their own journalistic issues. Update: Follow-up here.
• Massive police raids on suspected protestors in Minneapolis--Wow, is this what it's come to?
• St. Paul Police Ready Temporary Holding Cells for RNC Protestors--This was a week before the convention.

Scrabulous

• Game Over: Scrabulous Shut Down on Facebook--"Facebook says the decision to block Scrabulous for U.S. and Canadian users was made by the Scrabulous developers, not Facebook."
• 'Scrabulous' gets a nip-tuck, returns as 'Wordscraper'
• Scrabble vs. Scrabulous: A lesson in copyright law
• The Bigger Questions Behind The Scrabulous Shutdown
• Facebook yanks international access to Scrabulous

Fans

• Friction over Fan Fiction
• Ford Slaps Brand Enthusiasts, Returns Love With Legal Punch
• BBC removes Doctor Who fan's knitting patterns from the Web
• WIPO orders Narnia domain transfer, makes 11-year-old cry
• Grateful Dead lyrics cannot be quoted in children's book

A tale of two Tetrises--Although the programmer believes he's in the right (as would the EFF, I'd gather), he took down his app.

New story: Little Red Riding Hoodlum and the Big Bodybuilding Wolf by dymondbolt

New story: Little Red Riding Hoodlum and the Big Bodybuilding Wolf by dymondbolt

Headphone, apply directly

• Stop, look, and don't listen to your iPod whilst crossing the street
• Death spurs headphone debate--"Isaiah Otieno, a 23-year-old student, was killed when he was struck and dragged by a helicopter that crashed to the ground as he was walking to the mailbox." [Emphasis mine.]
• iPod 'safety' ban proposed for London Marathon--"We think this is a shame. In fact, we think deaf people should be banned from marathons too."

Husbands and Wives

• 1939 marital rating scale for wives--And husbands
• Could you make love to your husband every day for a year?
• Woman kills husband with folding couch
• My wife left me because the dolphins at Sea World gave me an erection Salon
• Polygamy is the key to a long life
• Police: Intruder strangled by nurse was hit man--Allegedly hired by the husband

Poles

• Grandmothers Swing on Stripper Poles for Exercise--Do. Not. Want.
• Texas "Pole Tax" Declared Unconstitutional
• Subway pole dancers enrage MTA
• Pa. town sued after rejecting pole-dancing studio