If you live in North Carolina, you better pay your taxes on weed and 'shine!

Slate has a good intro article on how to borrow, er, steal Wi-Fi from your neighbors. Just the thing to include with the laptop you are getting Uncle Fred for Christmas.

I want it -- Plextor's ConvertX PVR is a little $200 box that turns a PC into a DVR.

'We don't understand America now. Are they getting different news than us about the scandals in the Iraqi prisons, and the children and civilians who are getting killed?' - Election thoughts from around the world.