A judge in Tampa, Fla. yesterday called the city’s ban on nude lamp dancing unconstitutional and overly broad. The exceedingly wise Judge Elvin Martinez said the ban was selective prosecution because it applied only to dancers, but not, for example, to women serving drinks. Let’s all lift a glass to Judge Martinez.

With sobering subject matter and absolutely mistifying design, Johnathan Yuen’s Memoirs from Hijiyama brings the horrors of the misuse of nuclear power and the power of misplaced fear to the front of one’s mind.

This is art that the web can be proud of and that ensures the future of art in the digital world.

Sony is evaluating a system that adds distortion to pirated CDs and blows up your speakers. Dubbed the Cactus Data Shield, the system burns garbage data next to the music code placed on original CDs. When the copied discs are played, the CD player incorrectly interprets the encoded garbage data as music, sending out bursts of distortion.

While extremely annoying, this distortion can also damage sensitive hi-fi equipment by causing rapidly repeating high-energy peaks in the speaker’s output. This means your $2,000 Bose speakers could be reduced to 20 pounds of large, plastic paperweights — all because you didn’t want to pay hard-earned money for that new ‘N-sync release.

It’s great to know that a children’s book can still delight me. Check out this online version of animals illustrated from letters. It’s a really interesting look at how letters can be just as significant as images than as words. Maybe I’m putting too much in it. Just enjoy it for the sheer creativity of it.