This Day in Blogging History: XKCD on New Year's resolutions; FBI's Occupy surveillance; Warren Ellis's Gun Machine

One year ago today

XKCD on New Year's resolutions: Wise advice for those of us contemplating New Year's resolutions.

One year ago today

Report: FOIA'd FBI documents point to secret, nationwide Occupy surveillance: Violent crackdowns on Occupy Wall Street in cities around the US may have been coordinated between local law enforcement, the federal government, and banks, even before protests began.

One year ago today

Gun Machine: Warren Ellis's brutal, hard-boiled cop novel never stops for breath: Warren Ellis's second novel, Gun Machine, ships today, and it's the kind of grim, mean hard-boiled fiction that is just the right tonic for your hangover from 2012.