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Pickin’ up BoingBoing’s and Metafilter’s slack

With BoingBoing’s most prolific blogger on vacation and Metafilter down for a server upgrade, I thought I’d take up some of the slack and post some stories that I found interesting and amusing…

US planning to recruit one in 24 Americans as citizen spies (found at New World Disorder)

Hot commie-on-commie action! The lesson to be learned here is not to write Stalin/Kruschev slash fiction. (Also found at New World Disorder)

Karyn needs your help. She’s in serious credit card debt hell has turned to the ‘Net for help, by selling stuff on eBay and asking for donations on her site.

No more speeding in Daddy’s car — there’s now a device similar to the “black box” flight recorder in airliners that record your teen’s driving habits.

Soccer players flogged for moral corruption. It sounds like a headline from The Onion, but it ain’t. (via Yahoo News)

Joey deVilla

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