Dr. Brian May, astrophysicist, lead guitarist for Queen

I thought it was cool that Brian May finally completed his PhD, and conveniently, User Friendly talks about it today!

http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20070803

Go, Germany! They decide the courts won't help their equiv of the RIAA prosecute P2P thefts!

They decide that the smalltime sharers are not causing significant monetary damage and that the RIAA-equiv cannot use the courts to force ISPs to reveal identifying information to them for persecutionprosecution.

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/02/1647221

Some very good Dork Tower cartoons about Harry Potter "spoilers"

Nothing is spoiled, 'tis cartoons about people telling spoilers.

http://archive.gamespy.com/comics/dorktower/images/comics/DorkTower574.gif
http://archive.gamespy.com/comics/dorktower/images/comics/DorkTower575.gif
http://archive.gamespy.com/comics/dorktower/images/comics/DorkTower576.gif

Much recommended.