Here's one I missed at the time: in mid-October Italian police found a man locked inside a shipping container bound for Canada. This probably isn't unusual, except that this one had a Canadian passport, airline maps and security passes, a laptop, and cell phones.

Ashcroft suspends attorney-client privilege for terrorism related detainees. Stories at CNN and FindLaw.

A chronology of significant restrictions of civil liberties by Congress or the president.

Alabama will once again label new biology textbooks with a sticker warning that evolution is a controversial theory.

A Japanese government think tank shelved a terrorism report, titled "How Asia saw the terrorist attacks", because it could be viewed as critical of the government.

Sheperd finds unexploded U.S. cluster bombs in Pakistan.

Scott Adams has a new strip out. [via Metafilter]

This is why you don't leave pressurized containers in cars.