Here are three vaguely computer-related crimes taken from recent headlines in Seattle, Chicago and New England. more ›

because it comes from obese geese. Elsewhere, they're trying to get rid of junk food in schools because it causes the kids to become obese. more ›

There's a really old Filipino guy who lives up the street from us that takes our bus to a food bank downtown in the morning. His English sucks, which would be more of a problem if he ever wanted to talk about anything outside of his three favorite topics: the nationality of everyone on the street, genocide and Hitler. He loves talking about Hitler. He once even greeted us at a crowded bus stop in the morning with a heil Hitler hand salute, complete with a heel click and everything. Our attempts to explain how uncool that was were kind of lost in translation, though, and we ended up just ignoring him for weeks. On the way downtown he occupies himself with folding bus schedules into origami cranes and handing them to people, mostly to all the young women who are sitting nearby, which they love, of course, and which kind of pisses us off. Whatever, old guy, they love the cranes. Why don't you show them the heil Hitler? more ›

There's a small item in the P-I today about Governor Gregoire's proposal to halve the price of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge Toll for those drivers who carry an automatic toll transponder in their car. People who participate would pay $1.50 round-trip instead of the $3 everyone else pays. Presumably there would also be a fast lane for the traffic that used the transponders that would allow them to drive straight through, although at a somewhat reduced speed, instead of waiting in toll lines. more ›