SIMPSONS ON SALE

(Source: ShoppingBlog.com)

http://www.shoppingblog.com/cgi-bin/sblog.pl?sblog=4090913

The Simpsons postage stamps are now on sale at U.S. Post Office locations and online. You can see more details here. 

"We are excited to celebrate The Simpsons on postage stamps," said U.S. Postal Service Executive Director of Stamp Services David Failor. "Eyebrow-raising to say the least, this witty, well-written pop icon continues to irreverently satire its parody of a middle-class family as it lampoons American culture. The Simpsons stamps, which includes known philatelists Bart Simpson, will serve as a great opportunity to interest youngsters into stamp collecting." 

"This is the biggest and most adhesive honor The Simpsons has ever received," said Matt Groening, creator and executive producer of The Simpsons. 

Scary stuff

http://www.smh.com.au/world/cyber-attack-on-us-grid-20090409-a0zb.html#

Cyber attack on US grid

• April 9, 2009

CHINESE and Russian cyber spies have hacked into the US electricity grid and inserted programs that could be used to disrupt the system, a report says.

Quoting unidentified intelligence sources and homeland security officials, The Wall Street Journal said cyber spies penetrated the system repeatedly last year, but did not disrupt it. "The Chinese have attempted to map our infrastructure, such as the electrical grid," the paper quoted an intelligence official as saying.