To celebrate Pi Day and Einstein's birthday, Princeton has a "Geek Freak Weekend", including a pi recitation competition. The winner could recite it out to 1371 digits.

PenFed is one credit union used by members of the armed forces, but it is not the big player -- that's Navy Federal Credit Union (NFCU). It has three times the members (3M vs. 1M) and assets ($43M vs. $15M) that PenFed has. Not to minimize the impact, but the article reads as if all military personnel who join a credit union are affected, and this is not the case.

Exactly so. The case was United States v. One Book Called Ulysses. The gist of the ruling was that the book was not obscene because it had merit as a work of literary art. Judge Woolsey's ruling was an eloquent defense of contemporary (for then) literary art. Once the book was no longer banned in the US, the UK and Ireland followed suit and allowed unexpurgated versions. What is doubly ironic here is that the case was engineered by Random House in order to be able to publish the book freely through the US without being prosecuted for pornography. Wow -- look at the difference today! What publisher would challenge the government and culture in this manner today? Instead, Apple seeks to create a Digital Disneyland where everyone can have a fully predictable, enjoyable, inoffensive, and commercially lucrative (for Apple) time.

As far as TrueCrypt is concerned, I started using it when I realized what a problem I'd have if someone stole my laptop (either at home or on the road). I now keep all my sensitive financial and personal data on an encrypted volume; the innocuous stuff is in the clear. Frankly, the risk of theft is far greater than the risk of border seizure.

If it's your photos that you're concerned about, why not just upload them to you favorite photo sharing site and delete them from the laptop?