I thought that the Amazon Kindle did away with any reason to travel to the book store. I can get on amazon.com, search for any popular book, and download it straight to my device in a matter of minutes. It takes up no space, is easy to read, hard to scratch, and can read the books to me when I'm driving.

TechDirt stole the story from the Wall Street Journal, which provided a much lengthier discussion and analysis.

I'm patenting funk.

Given that the U.S. claims to own all of the oceans extending 200 miles beyond the coast, I'm pretty sure that the man was still considered on U.S. property.

Propanolol is a beta blocker used to treat everything from high blood pressure to tremors to fears about public speaking. While I'm interested in seeing where this research takes us, I'm a little concerned that deleting painful memories would be a bad thing because they teach us to avoid the behaviors that originally led to those mal events. For example, rape is terrible crime, but forgetting who your rapist is would be even worse.