Odds ‘n Sods:

Reader A.S. wrote to mention that he liked a piece by novelist Matt Bracken, posted over at the WRSA web site: Bracken: The CW2 Cube — Mapping The Meta-Terrain Of Civil War Two. Please don’t mistake his comments on racial demographics as racism. Matt Bracken is not a racist. He is a realist.

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Chicago Times – Cops love iPhone data trail – Evidence Never Deleted. Here is a quote: “Every time an iPhone user closes out of the built-in mapping application, the phone snaps a screenshot and stores it. Savvy law-enforcement agents armed with search warrants can use those snapshots to see if a suspect is lying about whereabouts during a crime.” (Thanks to F.G. for the link.)

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Slide Rules (EMP Proof Calculators) on sale at ThinkGeek. (Thanks to Elite for the link.)

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U.A.E. Is to Bar BlackBerry E-Mail Over Security Issues. Reader Michael H. asks: “Could this sort of regulation spread to other nations?”