Alan Moore joins the Occupy Comics movement. Just don't hold your breath on Frank Miller.
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Nearly 30 years after publishing V for Vendetta, writer Alan Moore and artist David Lloyd are throwing their support behind the global Occupy movement that’s drawn inspiration from their comic’s anti-totalitarian philosophy and iconography.

Moore will contribute a long-form prose piece, possibly with illustrations, to the Occupy Comics project. His writing work will explore the Occupy movement’s principles, corporate control of the comics industry and the superhero paradigm i...

Apple's iPad versus the Samsung Galaxy Tab. Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com

Apple is involved in so many patent suits across the globe, one might think the Cupertino hardware giant is only interested in crushing would-be competitors with iron-fisted lawyers.

One might think that, but one might be wrong. The Verge just reported that Apple is licensing one of its patents that describes list scrolling and document manipulation on a touchscreen display.

The patent in question, #7,469,381, is titled “List Scrolling and Document Translation, Scaling, and Rotation on a Touch-Screen Display” and it turns o...