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Ex-Michigan QB Forcier lands at San Jose State (Michigan Daily)
A semi-talented young man who doesn't give a flying fook about getting a college education and who just wants to play football. Follow your bliss Tate, cuz life and youth are both short.

Robert Ettinger, cryonics pioneer dies at 92 and is frozen (Wikipedia)
He hoped to be revived later on. Ettinger wrote The Prospect of Immortality the original manifesto of the cryonics movement in 1962.

Linguists say they can "out" men impersonating women on Twitter (Slashdot)
About 65 percent of the time anyway.

How Los Angeles lost its mojo (New Geography)
"The machine that now controls Los Angeles by default consists of an alliance between labor and the political leadership of the Latino community, the area's largest ethnic population. But since politicians serve at the whim of labor interests, they seldom speak up for homeowners and small businesses."
Business hating environmentalists are the second edge to this double edged dagger.

Ypsilanti has a beer festival (Eastern Echo)
Who knew? I'd have gone if I had.

Detroit Metro-Times has a story about a Detroit area guy who left Motown to go to Hollywood and become a screen writer. Started out well but turned out to be tl:dnf for me. 

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Better to live in Michigan if you win the lotto and never divorce scuzzball hubby - Det Free Press (Neal Ruben)
That way "his share" of your $180 million Lotto winnings comes to less than a buck. Heh.

Tate Forcier tweets that he's out of Michigan football - Michigan Daily
He said that about three weeks ago too, but whatever. Now it's finally final.

"Mrs. Mao Zedong" Jiang Qing

A picture gallery of some the world's more notorious dictator's wives - Daily Beast
Many of them are/were more vicious than their husband's were. A few ended up badly. Alas, most of them make out just fine when hubby gets deposed.

Living "off the grid" in suburbia - LewRockwell.com (Bill Rounds)
Interesting. That's what I'm trying to do. Unfortunately the D.I.Y. geek factor for all this is very high. And it doesn't leave you much time to "earn a living" (i.e., earning cash money for things like taxes, insurances, & etc. that can't be paid for any other way). But not to nit pick here. I really appreciate LRC for putting Rounds' series on his site.

DuckDuckGo: A search alternative to Google who's privacy policy is "we don't track you". - Wired.com/
"At issue is Google’s habit of sending along a searcher’s query to the site they are visiting, according to DuckDuckGo’s founder and sole employee Gabriel Weinberg. So if you search on “athlete’s foot” on Google, then click on a link, that site gets told that you searched on “athlete’s foot.” That’s something that not many people know, Weinberg says, and something his search engine doesn’t do.
Moreover, third-party ad tracking networks can also grab that info and add it to the store of information the companies store on users, Weinberg adds. It’s not clear if any ad tracking networks actually do grab this information, since those companies are notoriously unforthcoming about what data they collect."