Last year’s winner, the squirrel, isn’t slacking in 2008. They are now engaged in a crazed attempt to redeem their public image in an effort to make them seem harmless. Only the nightmarish horror of squirrel tributes to Benazir Bhutto and other images from beyond mortal ken make it plain that that this is no [...]

BOOKHUNTER by Jason Shiga is the most ripping library police adventure I have ever read, it is simply brilliant. The book tells two tales of the hard hitting library police of Oakland California in their never ending assault on library crime in the early 1970s.

Whuffie is a concept from Cory Doctrow’s book Down and Out In the Magic Kingdom. The concept is that society has moved to a post money economy where wealth is measured in personal status. In that world Gary Gygax would have been as rich as Bill Gates. As I am sure you have already seen [...]

They say the mafia perfected the shakedown, but tax officials in West Virginia apparently can teach the mafia some new tricks (second story down). Hey we made you a nice offer, you didn’t listen, now something bad just might happen, you never know…
Via Fark which has some comments that may mitigate the story somewhat.

Most of the time flying is pretty dull, every now and then it isn’t.