JK Rowling: "Dumbledore is gay"

A quote. And some interesting comments follow.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/50787

An article on the use of profanity

Explains how Bono of U2 was able to say "Fucking brilliant" on TV and get away with it.

It has a great quote: "A true moralist ... should hold that violence and inequality are "obscene," not sex and excretion." I think this holds the kernel of a great truth of one of the things that is fundamentally wrong with our country and several others.

http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=20071008&s=pinker100807

19 y/o hacks 911 system, sends SWAT team to unsuspecting house

No one was hurt, but it could have easily ended in blood. They've caught the perp, and he's facing some pretty stiff charges. Of course, there's the security hole exploit that let him get into the system and doing what he did, but there are other ways he could have alerted authorities to the problem.

http://www.ocregister.com/news/home-emami-county-1894171-ellis-system

http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/17/197221