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Buyer's remorse over borrowing $50K for an Ivy League M.A. degree - Craigslist (Anonymous)
Hoity-toity wine snobs duped out of big bucks by counterfeits - Slate (Mark Steinburger)
Proof that the FBI is surveilling social networks - BBC
"Armed police were sent to a U.K. school because "...scanning software picked up a suspicious combination of words."
Is Los Angeles still America's "city of the future"? - New Geography (Joel Kontkin)
Joe Lieberman defends his "emergency powers over Internet" legislation - CNet
"It's vital that the president can 'say to an electric company or to say to Verizon, in the national interest, "There's an attack about to come, and I hereby order you to put a patch on this, or put your network down on this part, or stop accepting any incoming from country A,'" said Lieberman, an independent from Connecticut who caucuses with Democrats."
Sign of the Times: Deranged female shooter kills 2, kidnaps 1, wounds 1 - NY Post
Didn't kill herself before being captured though.

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Swiss artist catalogs & paints mutant insects found around nuclear plants - Wired
Facebook and Mozilla have contrasting visions for the future of your online identity - Technology Review

Private Equity Funds: The 1980's LBO scam is back - The American Prospect (Robert Kuttner)

Ever notice how incompetent people are often incredibly confident? - BoingBoing

Indian IT outsourcing firm finds and even cheaper workforce: Prison inmates - Slashdot

First and foremost capitalism is a race to the bottom for labor.