Individualism, everyday evil, and the iBrator

Salon: I am everyday evil
An article on Calista Flockhart's starring role in Bash, Neil LaBute's new play. "Her all-American appeal makes her a perfect fit for LaBute, who wrote and directed the brutal black comedies In the Company of Men and Your Friends and Neighbors. She's pretty, but dressed down in an ordinary way. We want to trust her. We want to like her. We do these things, LaBute will show us later on, because we're chumps, because we've forgotten that ordinary people are capable of terrible, terrible things."

The iBrator
"Fully Y2K compatible! You can safely ignore all of the horror stories of your vibrators suddenly shutting off on January 1st, 2000."

Jinn: Our "Be Your Own Person" Culture Through a Chinese Lens
"There is little expectation that children will share their [parents'] values. Instead, in America we expect adolescents to reject their parents' values as part of growing up and becoming 'their own person,' the pinnacle of personal development in our individualistic culture."

TechWeb: U.K. Wants ISPs to Build In Interception
"The British government has become the first in Europe to openly propose internationally agreed requirements for ISPs to build technology into networks that would allow for police surveillance."