When Ratatouille was released this past summer, I thought it was one of the best animated films I'd ever seen—certainly finer than anything else in that category that could come along in the same year. I still hold Pixar's gourmet rodent near to my heart, but now, one week before the end of 2007, comes Persepolis (Sony Pictures Classics), a completely different kind of animated movie that, even more than Ratatouille, reimagines what the medium can do.

Marjane Satrapi's brilliant Persepolis

DataMapper is a Object Relational Mapper written in Ruby. The goal is to create an ORM which is fast, thread-safe and feature rich.

Datamapper

Flower is a new kind of user programmable web service, especially well suited for applications which process, store, and query XML data sets. Clients of a flower web service interactively modify and extend the code the server runs. This is is the ordinary way to build new flower applications. Flower is a true web operating system in the sense that it forms a self-contained, web-addressable computing environment.

Flower 0.5

The Brits thought Americans prudes. But then the table turned.

Quick, Jeeves, Cover the Piano Legs!

More than 200 years ago it was already possible to send messages throughout Europe and America at the speed of an aeroplane – wireless and without need for electricity.

Email in the 18th century

One morning seven years ago, Sherrilyn Roush woke to discover that the left side of her body had gone numb.

A year and a half later, caused by a lesion the size of a lentil in a region of her midbrain, she began to feel tingling on her body in response to sounds.

Today, more than ever, she feels sounds on her skin.

When the Senses Become Confused

The 2008 pay rates will become effective on the first day of the first applicable pay period beginning on or after January 1, 2008 (January 6, 2008) if no further action is taken by Congress.

Federal Employees: Draft 2008 Salary Tables and Related Information

This is the latest in a series of reports from the Combating Terrorism Center drawing on newly released information from captured al-Qa’ida documents maintained in the Defense Department’s Harmony Data Base. The report is a preliminary analysis of records containing background information on foreign fighters entering Iraq via Syria over the last year. The data used in this report was coded from English translations of these records and undoubtedly contains some inaccuracies de to imprecise translation as well as through errors in the transcription process. The CTC plans further studies based on the Sinjar Records and expects to hone and improve the accuracy of our database as we do so.

Al-Qa’ida’s Foreign Fighters in Iraq: First Look at the Sinjar Records

Online shopping has become a popular way to purchase items without the hassles of traffic and crowds. However, the Internet has unique risks, so it is important to take steps to protect yourself when shopping online.

Shopping Safely Online: National Cyber Alert System

Magicians, chefs, and stand-up comics protect their creations without resorting to legal authorities. This article is about what they can teach lawyers - and Congress - about the future of intellectual property.

Creative vigilantes