In 1968, Will Eisner, an acclaimed American comics writer who passed away in 2005, illustrated a US Army rifle maintenance booklet that instructs soldiers to treat their rifles like a woman. I just added it to our Best Titles Ever page, not because the title itself is particularly funny or odd, but because this was a comic book -- distributed to all US military personnel in Viet Nam -- whose illustrations were strange and sexist.

M16A1 rifle : operation and preventive maintenance. DA Pam 750-30.

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Put this in your "picture is worth 1000 words" file. Can you guess the effect of HR 3155, the Intellectual Property Enhanced Criminal Enforcement Act of 2007? Thought so... But if you'd prefer to read about analysis of the proposed law, see "Copycrime Bill Raises its Ugly Head, Again" from the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

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