A Toronto internal police disciplinary ruling found that Constable Andrew Vanderburgh was "harassed and berated" by other cops because he insisted on booking an off-duty cop whom he'd caught driving… Read the rest of the article: Toronto cop who arrested drunk-driving off-duty officer harassed by co-workers

Krillbrite Studio offers a preview of "Among the Sleep," a first-person horror game viewed from the point of view of a toddling two-year-old: Among The Sleep invites you into the… Read the rest of the article: First-person horror game from a two-year-old's PoV

An All Things Considered segment (MP3) with Chana Joffe-Walt and Alix Spiegel looks at the circumstances that lead to people cheating and committing other frauds. They frame it with the… Read the rest of the article: Why "ethical" people commit fraud

In Bloomberg, Chris Christoff reports on the city of Detroit's plan to switch off up to half of its municipal streetlights, reducing or eliminating public lighting in "distressed" areas, noting… Read the rest of the article: Turning out the streetlights in "distressed" parts of Detroit

Ken Doyle, a professional safecracker who's been practicing his trade since 1978, explains the ins and outs of safecracking to McSweeney's Suzanne Yeagley: Q: How often do people get locked… Read the rest of the article: Safecracking

Chris Sims, Laura Hudson and Colleen Coover have executed as series of "Great Comics That Never Happened" for Comics Alliance, and they're fabulous. Exhibits A and B: Great Comics that… Read the rest of the article: Contrafactual comics: Jay-Z meets Batman, Jack Kirby meets My Little Pony

Alexandra sez, "I'm writing to tell you about Modkit, a new interface for microcontrollers like Arduino. Modkit uses a graphical programming language based on the kids' programming language, Scratch. To… Read the rest of the article: Modkit: a simple graphical programming system for Arduinos and other microcontrollers

Mike sez, "Photographed a wedding reception in upstate NY this weekend — the cake was awesome! The couple are both geeks and have three geeky teenaged daughters who helped design… Read the rest of the article: XKCD wedding cake

Gayle from the School of Visual Arts in NYC sez, "Acclaimed multimedia artist Laurie Anderson gave the commencement address this year at the School of Visual Arts' (SVA) graduation ceremony,… Read the rest of the article: Laurie Anderson's commencement speech on art, science and space

Sergei Skorobogatov, a postdoc in the Security Group at the Computer Laboratory of the University of Cambridge has written up claims that reprogammable microchips from China contained secret back-doors that… Read the rest of the article: Security researcher: I found secret reprogramming backdoors in Chinese microprocessors

A reader writes, The Canadian government is slowly doing away with Canada's ability to access its own history. Library and Archives Canada's collection is being decentralized and scattered across the… Read the rest of the article: Canada's national archives being dismantled and scattered

Here are Montrealers engaged in charivari, a form of protest involving beating pots and pans in the streets. They're out protesting the new law 78, which prohibits public gatherings without… Read the rest of the article: Quebeckers take to the streets with pots and pans: a charivari

Last week saw the latest installment of David Isenberg's Freedom to Connect conference in Washington, DC. One of the keynotes came from Eben Moglen, formerly chief counsel of the Free… Read the rest of the article: Innovation Under Austerity: Eben Moglen's call to arms from the Freedom to Connect conference

CPU Wars is a Top-Trumps-style game whose play-tokens are cards bearing the likeness and specifications of various CPUs (what else?) through the ages, from 8088s up to contemporary 64-bit multicores.… Read the rest of the article: CPU Wars: Top Trumps with CPUs

Sam Harris, a neuroscientist, challenged Bruce Schneier to a debate on whether Muslims should be singled out for additional screening at airports. Schneier patiently, and repeatedly, explains why (apart from… Read the rest of the article: Bruce Schneier explains security to a neurologist who believes in profiling Muslims at airports

The redoubtable Miss Insomnia Tulip has created a calorific tribute to the Leveson Inquiry, in which Lord Justice Leveson is interrogating the state of the nation's newspapers, phone hacking, and… Read the rest of the article: Leveson Inquiry cakepops

Today I found myself at a street-market in Soho (the one in London), at a stall belonging to Amelia Parker, a jewelry maker who salvages fragments of century-old clay pipes… Read the rest of the article: Jewelry made from 19th century clay pipes washed up on the Thames

Here's a collection of humorous, futuristic magazines displayed in the background of the news-stand scene in Blade Runner — documented in Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner by Paul… Read the rest of the article: Magazines from Blade Runner

The UK press has been alive with talk of the Prime Minister calling Ed Balls, the Labour Shadow Chancellor, a "muttering idiot" during a session of Parliament. The the Speaker… Read the rest of the article: Peckniffian cant banned in Parliament

VatiLeaks is pretty much what it sounds like: leaks from the Vatican, which culminated in, "Your Holiness: The Secret Papers of Benedict XVI," a blockbusting book from journalist Gianluigi Nuzzi,… Read the rest of the article: The butler did it! Pope's butler is the leak behind Vatileaks