If you like playing computer games...you could be a pedophile! That is according to Andy Anderson of the Mid-Missouri Internet Crimes Task Force, who when discussing Animal Crossing: City Folk for the Nintendo Wii, said "There is no reason an adult should have this game," going on to state that adults who play games like Animal Crossing are likely doing it for "the wrong reasons." Perverts! (also see: missouri-police-warn-adults-about-nintendo-game)

Last week the Guardian newspaper published internal Barclays Bank documents allegedly providing information on Barclays' alleged $16 billion tax avoidance scheme. The courts instructed the Guardian to take the documents off-line, which they did. Someone should have told the management of Barclays Bank that legal action would simply draw more attention to the whole debacle and that it is impossible to remove information from the internet. You can see the documents at wikileaks.org or by following the link to Techcrunch.

So much for democracy...a finger-licking tale of vote-rigging by the good ol' boys in Kentucky, USA...

Police do not like getting caught out by civilians with cameras. Solution: call them terrorists. Article has more.

Interesting case. Mother gets a call that her son has been arrested. Goes to fetch him. Films cops with video camera (not a bad idea - see the BARTS case )...gets arrested. Illegal use of a camera?

Kid has epileptic fit...police taser him...mmmm. Corinth city attorney Michael Bucek won’t release records because the city expects litigation. At least someone in Corinth has some common sense.

From the land of the "free": "The Maryland State Police classified 53 nonviolent activists as terrorists and entered their names and personal information into state and federal databases that track terrorism suspects, the state police chief acknowledged yesterday." "The former state police superintendent who authorized the operation, Thomas E. Hutchins, defended the program in testimony yesterday. Hutchins said the program was a bulwark against potential violence and called the activists "fringe people." "

In a stroke of forward-planning genius, Gary Pugh (Britain's most senior police forensics expert), has come up with a way to address "future crime".... "Primary school children should be eligible for the DNA database if they exhibit behaviour indicating they may become criminals in later life, according to Britain's most senior police forensics expert." "'If we have a primary means of identifying people before they offend, then in the long-term the benefits of targeting younger people are extremely large,' said Pugh." "...it is possible to identify future offending traits in children as young as five" TARGETING YOUNGER PEOPLE...AS YOUNG AS 5...BEFORE THEY OFFEND.

I have a good chuckle whenever this happens to me: "A student at the University of Calgary was put on academic probation for making the following post on a group titled, "I no longer fear Hell, I took a course with [instructor's name]:""

"The relationship between photographers and police could worsen next month when new laws are introduced that allow for the arrest - and imprisonment - of anyone who takes pictures of officers 'likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism'." (See also the story of the BARTS police officer published a few days ago)