Here’s a mindblowingly complex and exhaustive info-chart outlining the 193 documents that govern the activities of the Pentagon’s geek squads.

Developed by the DASD CIIA (that’s the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Cyber, Identity & In…

Homeowners in the region outside the town limits of South Fulton, TN, have to pay $75 to come under the protection of the town’s firefighters. Late in September, the house of Gene Cranick, who had not paid his $75 for the year, caught fire. When the fi…

An increasing tool of choice for collection agencies is getting folks thrown in jail for missing “financial assessment hearings,” even when the folks had good reason – like moving and never getting the letter – or the validity of th…

Christian sez,

Germany’s working group against
censorship, AK Zensur, has analysed a few recent Scandinavian
blacklists, allegedly meant to block sites containing child abuse
material. Our less-than-surprising findings:

* From 167 listed sites, only…

Josh Klein — the fellow who trained crows to collect quarters and wrote an article for MAKE on how to toilet train your cat — and Bill Jensen wrote a new book called Hacking Work — an “instruction manual for getting your work done faster, more effic…

JetBlue Tweet-spanks comedian Andy Borowitz for making bad jokes about their cranky flight attendant.

Yes, because tweets are the real cause of violence among airline passengers.

JetBlue Does Not Find Jokes About Its Cranky Flight…

Got some extra cash (finally)? Consider spending it on a weekend get-away, or hiking gear, rather than the iPad you think you’ve wanted. It’s one of the few things researchers can agree on when it come…

The dancers at the Foxhole in Coschocton County, Ohio, are used to arriving at work to the sounds of protests from members of the nearby New Beginnings Ministries church. But the same couldn’t quite be said for the churchgoers, who …

Consumerist reader Mark got a BS debt-collection letter for a debt associated with an address he’d lived at 20 years before. He wrote the errant harassers the most comprehensive and compelling go-to-hell letter it’s been my pleasure to read. Be sure to click the link below and read the whole thing. Now This Is How [...]

In the Department of Unfortunate Analogies, here’s a Christian minister giving advice on one’s marital obligations: As I said, sometimes sex is just sex; it’s what you do when you are married. Just like cleaning the toilet is what you do to keep your house clean…and I bet you don’t have this great desire or [...]