Mid Day News

From the BBC: A top doctor has admitted her part in hoodwinking a leading medical journal after inventing a medical condition called “cello scrotum”.

Journal editors are also examining her other entries, such as sponge-on-the-brain, scrotus itchus, brain pain, and naughty nipples.

Also from the BBC:  A Sudanese man has been jailed for seventeen years as a `war crimes spy’.  What did he do?  He passed documents to the International Criminal Court implicating Sudan in Darfur war crimes.

Shades of Bush… you know what we do to whistleblowers here…

Former NSA analyst Russell Tice says band and credit card CEOs should be called in front of Congress to answer whether or not they voluntarily shared consumer transaction records with the NSA on a massive scale.

Not that it will ever happen but if it did, it would look like the heads of Big Tobacco<tm>, standing there swearing that tobacco is not hazardous or addictive in any way. But corporations bear no responsibility these days, much like the government.

Wired:  Should your boss be your Facebook friend?

No.  Because no one in their right mind should use Facebook.

Wired:  Western Digital launches 2TB hard drive…

Maybe it’s just me but I’m feeling a lack of confidence based upon the fact that their 1.5TB drives have been self-destructing…

Techdirt:  New legislation in Congress will force manufacturers of camera phones to include a CLICK when taking pictures.

It’s for the children, of course…

Congress is America’s only native criminal class -Mark Twain

Slashdot: AT&T and Comcast are joining the RIAA’s battle against illegal file sharing.

The RIAA is missing the obvious here.  Why not get the info from the NSA?

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I’m thinking Angry or Multiple.