It's Bad Behavior Friday ™!

A thief brazenly stole a judge's purse from her chambers behind her courtroom in Houston's Criminal Justice Center, then located her SUV in the building's parking garage and drove away in it -- the keys were in the purse.

The Colorado Springs Gazette has a story on the people who work in the county jail mailroom, where "a veteran Sheriff's Office employee who is long past the point of blushing or flinching" at the contents of mail she inspects daily. Among the things that are forbidden are drawings or art of any kind -- for example, children's "crayon drawings aren't permitted because drugs could be hidden in the wax."

Never thought of that.

Some anti-DRM activists are staging demonstrations at seven Apple stores across the country tomorrow. Their poster for the event is a bit over the top -- it shows a female figure with her hands tied behind her back by means of iPod headphone wires. I get the point, but when you compare it with the famous "iRaq" graphic showing the famous Abu Gharib image of a man with a hood and wires -- in the parody, they are iPod wires -- dangling from his hands, it sort of begs the question. Is DRM (a method of encoding audio and video files so producers can control them) really equivalent to torture?