Of interest (Wed, Nov 10th, 5pm)

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While GOP Sought Exemption For Their Industry, PA Debt Collector Tricked Consumers With Phony Courtroom
[Think Progress - George Zornick]

"Unicredit America Inc. is accused of using phony Sheriff’s deputies and a corporate office decorated as a courtroom to confuse debtors into thinking they were in legal trouble in order to coerce them into making immediate payments."

none

Hey, Adobe – bring Creative Suite to Ubuntu
[OMG! Ubuntu!]

…You can vote on the ‘idea’ to bring CSx to Linux over @ getsatisfaction.com/adobe/topics/produce_creative_suite_for_linux. You do need to ‘log in’ to vote however you can use your existing OpenID, Twitter or Facebook login to do so…

linux

Mysterious Structures Balloon From Milky Way’s Core
Huge bubbles are billowing from the core of our home galaxy, and the energy source creating them is a mystery, a new study says.

astronomy

Loan markets in everything
Women in remote Korawan, 70 km from Allahabad, have come up with a novel bank which exclusively deals with goats – accepting the animal as savings and lending it out as loans.

economics

Traditional Light Bulb Values!
[Talking Points Memo - David Kurtz]

One of the legislative priorities for Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX), who's vying to chair the House Energy and Commerce Committee is defending the "traditional, incandescent light bulb" against government regulators who want to replace it with "the little, squiggly, pig-tailed ones."

politics wtf

Parkour for Lazies: The Bizarre British Lying Down Game
[WebUrbanist - Delana]

photography wtf

[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.]

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