Coding Freedom; also witch hunters

This review of Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters is far better than mine could ever be.  I got stuck on ( How ridiculous can a spoiler be? )

  Nonetheless, yes, sigh, I'm on board; show me the way to the fanfic.

An excerpt from a new book, Pound Foolish, on the personal finance industry:

Even Suze Orman has deemed her fellow females financial failures, writing in her best-selling book Women and Money, “Why is it that women, who are so competent in all other areas of their lives, cannot find the same competence when it comes to matters of money?” There is only one problem with this analysis. It’s not true. Women have less money than men for two basic reasons: they earn less and live longer.

( the ethics and aesthetics of hacking )