Banishing spell

eBay attempts to ban the supernatural.

Thanx to Making Light.

Archival

oursin offers a warning about the otherwise nifty prospect of using DNA for data storage.

Maybe we need a lesbian president

Iceland didn't bail out the banks. It seems to be working.

Thanx to andrewducker

Unintended consequences

When a Facebook friend dies in RL, he or she will continue to "like" things I look at elsenet. I find that creepy.

My, how you've grown!

The Internet, after 10 years

Thanx to andrewducker

Interesting serious essay

The Four Types of Conservatives. It even includes "Sober Adults."

Thanx to onyxlynx

Houdini, reincarnated, decides to ends it all

An Arkansas medical examiner has ruled that Chavis Carter, the 21-year-old man killed by a gunshot wound to the head while handcuffed in the back of a police car, committed suicide.

Actual news story