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The Government makes some pretty terrible powerpoints. We know because we’ve gotten them with FOIA. Now, we’re going to hand over these presentations to people who have never ever seen them before and ask them to present it like their career depended on it. It should be pretty funny.

How is your local police coping with the Clownpocalypse? Help us find out.

One day you may find yourself comfortably cruising down the information superhighway, a question in your mind percolating into a public records request, when you suddenly realize, “Oh, no, I want to send this to a lot of agencies.” Fear not, fair factfinder. Drafting your requests can be more efficient than you know!

When Allan Lasser started his hunt for the Government’s most ancient piece of tech, he hadn’t even considered that the oldest active computer might not even be on Earth.