"Expelled" flunks out

I notice that "Expelled" opened in two Ann Arbor theaters a couple weekends ago, but is already gone. You can still catch it in the ueber-suburbia of Canton, if you really must.

Nice to hear

"Better-educated Women Are A Healthier Weight"

Good news for skinny geek males everywhere.

Destroying the evidence

"Torture victim's records lost at Guantánamo"

The records on al-Qahtani, who was interrogated for 48 days - "were backed up ... after I left, there was a snafu and all was lost"

The CIA admitted last year that it destroyed videotapes of al-Qaida suspects being interrogated at a secret "black site" in Thailand.

Cameras that run 24 hours a day at the prison were set to automatically record over their contents

Can it get any more disgraceful? The answer, I'm afraid, is probably, "Yes, just stay tuned."

Self-powered streetlight

"Ann Arbor Tries Out Solar, Wind Street Light"

Copyright enforcement

"Universities Baffled By Massive Surge In RIAA Copyright Notices"

"Public universities are in a unique position since the industry puts pressure on us through state legislatures to try to impose what are widely considered to be draconian content monitoring measures and turn us into tech police forces in support of a specific industry,"

and

the MPAA, for instance, radically overestimated how much movie piracy was attributable to college students. For more than two years, the industry claimed that more than 40 percent of illegal movie downloads came from college students -- costing the industry billions of dollars. Then in January of this year, the estimate was reduced to 15% for college-aged students, and only 3% occurring on campus networks.