Toxins

A set of Internet content filtering protocols is being tested in Australia. In other words, the Australian government is preparing to implement platforms for content censorship.
It always starts with ’safety’ as the main reason.

Net filter at test phase | Australian IT

Here are some pictures from the minimum potential energy spot, received via e-mail.

They go uncredited, just as I received it.

It’s there on the table, looking at me. It has that look of an old man with one last great story to tell in his heart.

I can’t imagine what goes through their minds, but they show a tremendous thirst. It shows in their voice, in their expressions, that burning desire for…something. But I think they don’t even know what they burn for.
Relentless, they carry on.

Is back!
One of the most interesting horror anthologies from the ’50s is back at Vertigo.

«The premise of the House of Mystery is that there are five people who seem to be trapped in the house — they cannot leave at all — and they don’t know why. As they arrive to it, they arrive like many people do to this place, and when they attempt to leave, they find out that their ability to leave the house is gone. To make up for this, the house provides them with the things they need, like food and of course liquor — because everyone has to have liquor.But five cannot leave, however other folks can come and go as they will, which only adds to the consternation of the five characters. It’s like, how come these guys get to go and we can’t? Being clever people, they think, well, we’re going to use what we have to make some kind of life for ourselves. And since the house provides all the free food and drink they need, they open a bar and restaurant for all those folks who come and go.

What the house won’t provide or allow for is any type of outside news or entertainment. No TV, no books, no journals — nothing like that. And so they decide, well, since money’s no good to us, we’re going to charge stories from the people who come and go for our hospitality so that we don’t go bat-____ crazy living here all alone in this house for an eternity. »

New tax ideas:

A Face-Lift Tax and Other Ideas for the City Budget – City Room – Metro – New York Times Blog