E-mail addiction may just be one of a larger pantheon of Internet-related addictions (hello, texters), but this story from an AOL survey still rings some bells. Among the findings:

"Fifty-nine percent of people emailing from portable devices are checking email in bed while in their pajamas; 53% in the bathroom; 37% are checking email while they drive; and 12% admit to checking email in church."

Is it wrong that it bothers me more that someone might be reading my e-mail in the bathroom than in church? If I know you, please don't read my e-mail in the bathroom. Does anyone know of any filters I can get to keep my e-mails from being readable in bathrooms?

So, anyway, any addicted e-mailers, texters, IMers, etcers in the room? Hands? (No need to raise them if you're reading this in the bathroom.) We're all here for you.

Offering a more serious (and more helpful) take on the issue of Christians and Internet abuse, Keith Plummer over at The Christian Mind offers some excellent insights and recommends an interesting-sounding book by Quentin Schultze called Habits of the High-Tech Heart: Living Virtuously in the Information Age.

Not sure what this says about me, but I love the idea of bad Thai cops being forced to wear "Hello Kitty" armbands as punishment. Here's the best quote from the AP story:

"Simple warnings no longer work. This new twist is expected to make them feel guilt and shame and prevent them from repeating the offense, no matter how minor," said Pongpat, acting chief of the Crime Suppression Division in Bangkok.

Shame and guilt? I know that being all "macho" is a bigger deal in some countries than in others. Still, this kind of makes me feel bad about carrying my "Hello Kitty" lunch box to the office. Next someone's going to say I should give up my vintage Muppet Babies T-shirts.