Today is the 23rd anniversary of one of the great April Fool's Day pranks in modern history -- George Plimpton's splendidly written Sports Illustrated article about Sidd Finch, a Mets' pitching prospect with a 168-mph fastball:

As the crack down of the Chinese military  in Tibet is still going on, a more complex repression is affecting main land China for the access to certain links on the internet.

The Chinese Government apply a  sophisticated political censorship system; it is nicknamed the great firewall of China.

If you were in main land China and would try to run a search on, let's say : the great firewall of China  or " repression in Tibet ", the firewall would shut down access to applicable links or reset the connection.

Oh, good grief. From Kentucky comes news (via Drudge) of a bill to outlaw anonymous posting on the Internet. Here, once again, we have a lawmaker attempting to legislate the impossible with the best of intentions and without a clue about the consequences.

Now that the writers are back to work, this seems as good a time as any to mention that I've become insanely addicted to "Lost."

And I've become addicted in a way that was impossible or unheard-of about a decade ago: I'm on a marathon binge watching the entire series on ABC's Web site.

The LA Times reports that laptops have finally edged ahead of desktop computers in sales.