Perhaps we should finish our first coffee before making choices for the Morning Coffee?

Nah.

Here at the Big Bad Blog, we are fond of Google’s latest online tools — the transparency report lets you know how much Google is being censored by various governments, and to what extent governments request information about Google users.

(Photograph of an atom bomb exploding over the desert, by Peter Kuran, from the New York Times) (Click that link. Seriously. Incredible photographs.)

Is this woman’s name really Marijuana Pepsi?

Sheep. In parachutes. Jumping from planes. Italian parachuting sheep.

We just now realised that this is a Friday the 13th. We apologise for the lack of gore in today’s morning coffee. We should have planned ahead. Instead, we realise this only after having picked out an entirely gore-free Friday coffee.

In news that everybody has already doubtlessly already seen, but for which we would feel remiss should it not appear in this space, Steven Slater knows how to quit a job.

(Hobbiton, once the pride of New Zealand the Shire, is now overrun with sheep.)

I am so happy that Edgar Allan Poe has joined twitter: I have stared with dread into the craggy sockets of the abyss & marveled at its resemblance to Facebook.

More on how your initials impact your life. Children who have a first name that start with an “A” have a tendency to outperform those with a first initial “D” in school. The theory is that we live up to our initials. We will experiment with this for my baby. She will have awesome initials. FAST, and encourage her to be a runner? LOOT, and encourage her to be a bank robber? We will see.

You can, apparently, win a Pulitzer Prize for drawing political cartoons. You cannot, apparently, put Pulitzer Prize winning cartoons on the iPhone.

(For the second day in a row, we have a reputed source, but no idea who to credit.)

Trying to evade capture by the police in Argentina? One strategy that has been successful is to disguise yourself as a sheep.

In the United States, a court has ruled that the normal rules for searching computers do not apply to those “crossing a border” — even when it is just a blatant attempt to avoid applying for a search warrant, or the border in question is along an Interstate between Los Angeles and Phoenix.