T.I.A. is dead!

In an amazing and uncharacteristic bout of rationality, Congress defunded the Total Information Awareness program:.

My favorite part of the article was the description of its head: "...ret. Admiral John Poindexter, former President Ronald Reagan (news - web sites )'s national security adviser who was convicted of five felony counts of lying to Congress about the Iran-Contra affair in the mid-1980s."

Guess he's retired again.

Now if they could only get rid of some of the other Iran/Contra conspirators: Cheney, Rumsfield, Ashcroft....

Underworld

I saw it last night - really liked it - it wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it was gonna be :)
(Or maybe it's just the British accents....)

While checking on imdb to see if the guy who played Kraven was related to the director or something ('cuz I couldn't figure out how else he got the role...), I found that White Wolf was suing Sony on the basis that their world was too much like their "World of Darkness" (in that it has Vampires and Werewolves and angst). I was going to comment on this, but Penny Arcade beat me to it.