GM's On-Star service spies on you

A lot of people don't care for this General Motors service. For some very good reasons too.
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Ann Arbor.com sniffing through the dirty linen of UM undergrad who happens to play footbal

Some Michigan football player apparently partied away his athletic scholarship stipend money instead of paying his rent. This is newsworthy because as we long-time Ann Arborites all know young undergrads always behave responsibly with their funds and in their personal lives, right? AA dot com needs to step up their journalistic standards as to what is newsworthy and what is just prying into people's private business for website hits and which isn't.

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Privacy is gone. Get over it: "The Electronic Frontier Foundation's FOIA request has revealed government memos encouraging agents to befriend people on a variety of social networks, to take advantage of their readiness to share — and to spy on them."  Via this Slashdot post. Watch out what you post and who you chat with. The feds are out there listening, watching, gathering and storing intel on us. Not to mention the corporations who have been doing this for years.

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I really need to concentrate here you guys! - There, I fixed it.com

Can Asian carp survive in Michigan's rivers and streams? - MLive
Maybe, maybe not. I hope not.

Tennessee officials to promote "moonshine tourism" - Daily Caller
"Tennessee Department of Tourist Development Assistant Commissioner Jennifer Spence said she knows of no other such government-sponsored tourism attraction based on moonshine and bootleggers. The White Lightning Trail is one of 16 self-guided driving trails that have opened or are being developed and is intended to be a 'fun attraction ride.' "

Police lobby congress to keep warrentless cellphone tracking legal - CNet (Declan McCullagh)
Two LA pot dispensary workers killed in separate robberies - LA Times
Take a hint from liquor stores, banks, 24 hour convenience stores, and etc.: You need to have better security. You're in business now, not selling weed to your friends.
British cat gets first artificial bone leg-bud implants - Popular Science

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FBI wants to know where you've been on the web - cnet
Mozilla yanks infected add-ons, warns users - Mozilla.org/ blog
Ben Huh of Failblog.org visits Ann Arbor - annarbor.com
ISPs can't be forced to play copyright cop - Ars Technica
A legal victory in Australia.
Lawyers, scientists, and politicians are all crazy? - Bloggingheads.tv (video)
Razib Khan makes a fool of himself yet again.