OK this is REALLY old news but still kind of funny (sad funny) here is a good excuse to post a youtube clip, of TSS Leo LaPorte and Martin Sargent exploring a story from adequacy.org that details 10 WARNING SIGNS that your child is an evil HACKER!  And number 4 is the presence of Hacking Manuals (wouldn’t it be a good thing if your child had and had read all of these books?…) the first ones listed are Snow Crash and Cryptonomicon, by the infamous Neal Stephenson.  But there are other great books listed too, that might be of interest if you have not read them all ready. 

Over at Press the Action Button, is an interesting story about what could have been!  It seems that there was initial work done on a script for a live action Batman based in the Batman Beyond setting.  And it seems that Mr. Stephenson was part of some of that work, which unfortunately ended up without being completed.  I suppose there is always hope as the Batman franchise seems to have new life with the Nolan directed Batman movies.