Original Apple 1 Computer sells for $374,500 in Sothebys auction [WSJ]

Economists demonstrate exactly why bank robbery is a bad idea [Ars Technica]

We're all Kulaks now: The war on property rights [James Bovard]

Actual sword fighting techniques are not what you see in movies [ARMA]

Man bit by feral cat in Oregon now has plague [Seattle Times]

Film director Joe Cornish to make Neal Stephenson's Snowcrash into a movie [Deadline]

One bunch of progressives new found appreciation for the concept of private property

I enjoy schadenfreude as much as the next misanthrope but even so I am amazed that progressives never grasp the following political realities: The government doesn't always know best, governments do not always act in the best interests of the community, and governments are heavily influenced by special interests. Further, if you bitch about government's conduct or oppose what they're try to do they will use whatever means are at hand to crush you. The progs listed in the news story probably never thought this kinda shit would ever happen to them. Then it did. Bottom line: Government is force.

City of Ann Arbor vows to crack down on graffitti

They hope to so by cracking down on property owners who don't clean it off within two weeks! That is their ass-backward solution. I shit you not. That is how they treat us property owners around the People's Republic of Ann Arbor. How about if the city also makes a stronger effort to arrest these spray-paint happy little creeps and have the community service portion of their sentences be to remove it maybe?