So the giant mouse thing from Boing Boing was pretty awesome, especially when the last paragraph of that story casually says "'Our work suggests that 4 million years ago in South America, 'mice' that were larger than bulls lived with terror birds'"--bascuse me? ROUS, we can deal with. But terror birds are new for us. . more ›

Eighty years ago AT&T was quite the different company when it came to privacy of its customers and free speech. A quote lifted from a Boing Boing post on Thursday where AT&T spoke out against warrantless surveillance, "The telephone has become part and parcel of the social and business intercourse of the people of the United States, and this telephone system offers a means of espionage to which general warrants and writs of assistance were... more ›

Well, he finally did it. He signed his law banning the sale of violent and sexy video games to minors. But not without uttering, what sounds to us like, quite a contradictory quote: more ›

So the buzz all around the internet yesterday was how it's come to light that Millennium Park is a copyrighted public space and that photographers have been getting hassled for taking photographs at the park. An official has been quoted as saying "The copyrights for the enhancements in Millennium Park are owned by the artist who created them. As such, anyone reproducing the works, especially for commercial purposes, needs the permission of that artist." more ›