In case you hadn’t heard, the terrorist watch list now includes a whopping 755,000 people with 200,000 or more be added each year. At roughly 550 people added a day I am confident our government has checked each one and that none were added simply because of a computer algorithm. I feel safe, don’t you?

Via XKCD

If you haven’t heard me mention it before I firmly believe, as many do, that the early termination fees in cell phone contracts are illegal. Unfortunately, the contracts also have a clause that bars class actions lawsuits. However, the California Supreme Court has just let through a class action law suit anyway, holding the arbitration clause invalid because of the Unfair Competition Law and the state’s Consumer Legal Remedies Act. The suit also goes on to argue that the forced locking of one phone to one carrier should be disallowed. Now, the case will likely go to trial and we could have a very different mobile landscape in the next few years. Maybe it will be enough so the United States won’t be so far behind the rest of the world, but I am not holding my breath. Via Ars Technica.

Oh, and Verizon is going to sell your phone records unless you opt out. Check it out

So apparently the way you see this dancer spinning correlates to if you are more left or right brained. I saw her spinning clockwise, right brained. Either way, it’s fun making her switch back and forth if you can do it.