Senator Ron Wyden is quickly becoming a politician to be proud of on issues that we feel are important. We’ve already seen him single-handedly stand up to COICA (and forcefully stand behind that position after facing ridiculous lobbying pressure). He… Continue reading →

Slashdot points us to a somewhat odd lawsuit in which a court determined that the game Dungeons & Dragons could lead to gang activity, and thus could be banned in prisons.

Basically, a guy who is serving a life sentence for murder, Kevin Singer, … Continue reading →

Sheriff Dean Kimpel in Shelby County, Ohio is facing accusations of sexual harassment, and apparently doesn’t want to talk about it at all. So when a local reporter sent him some emails with questions about the allegations, Kimpel’s response was appar… Continue reading →

We’ve talked a lot about how patents actually hinder the rate of innovation in many research areas. That’s because nearly all innovation does not work on “the one big breakthrough” theory, but on incremental improvements over time, that all add up to … Continue reading →

With UK police arresting five guys accused of participating in the Anonymous cyberattacks to make a statement about efforts to block Wikileaks, as well as the FBI saying that it has executed more than 40 search warrants in the US in trying to track dow… Continue reading →

This is just classic. We’ve heard plenty of stories about bombs that are designed to go off when an SMS text message is received… and we know all too well about annoying and unwanted text messages from your mobile operator. But how about combining … Continue reading →

There are those “big events” where you always remember where you were, how you heard about them, etc. Things like JFK’s assassination or 9/11. And, for me, there’s always the Challenger disaster. I remember, because I was in elementary school, and f… Continue reading →

There is nothing against the law about photographing federal buildings from public property. And yet, there have been plenty of stories about security guards and law enforcement trying to block photographers from taking those shots. There have been s… Continue reading →