A quick note of something overheard on the PBS show "How Art Made the World" 

"The reality is: we humans don't like reality."

"Mundus vult decipi." - James Branch Cabell ("Tell the rabble, the name is Cabell.")

Dozens of historical tombstones vandalized. MYRTLE CREEK - The dates and names on the broken marble and granite headstones read like a history of the city.
Samuel Dailey, born March 24, 1821. He died Feb. 16, 1896. John Adams was 92 when he died July 1, 1866. [News Review - News] 

Organizers of Kittelman recall turn in signatures. Organizers of the recall against Douglas County Commissioner Marilyn Kittelman handed in their petitions this morning to County Clerk Barbara Nielsen. [News Review - News] 

The Rise and Fall of a Spam King. A noir melodrama tracks a sleazy dude through his short life, as he withholds employees' pay, boasts of sexual adventures, enrages government officials and floods Russia with 25 million e-mails a day. Until he gets his skull bashed in. By Brett Forrest from Wired magazine. [Wired News: Top Stories] 

Server Farms Live Off Open Source. The most visited websites on the internet run on open source software. But while the sites are ratcheting up page views, the companies behind them are less gung-ho about releasing their own code. Joanna Glasner reports from the O'Reilly Open Source Convention in Portland, Oregon. [Wired News: Top Stories] 

Ghost Fulfills Cage's Ambitions. Avowed comic-book fan and actor/producer Nicolas Cage, who stars in Mark Steven Johnson's upcoming movie based on Marvel Comics' Ghost Rider, told SCI FI Wire that the role fulfills a number of childhood ambitions. [SCI FI Wire]