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Finally the law goes after the criminal credit-ratingsmongers:

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is launching an investigation into some of Wall Street’s top firms to determine whether they provided misleading information to credit rating agencies.

A total of eight firms are part of the probe, including Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse (CS), Citigroup, UBS, Credit Agricole and Merrill Lynch, which has since been acquired by Bank of America (BAC, Fortune 500).

Schnews interviews Richard Stallman

Squid sex man faces charges

Dry but fascinating: A history of attempted reforms of the House of Lords

Nature: Weird wonders lived past the Cambrian

The fossils prove that the famously bizarre creatures of the Cambrian (542 million to 488 million years ago) didn’t die out at the end of that period — something that fossil hunters had suspected, but could not back up with evidence until now.

Website sells crabs to angry lovers out for revenge

FT/Alphaville blog: Towards a United States of EuropeAre we witnessing the first steps toward a fiscal union in the eurozone?

One for Pseuds Corner – from the Advertising Age:

Gurus Should Spend Less Time Talking, More Time Listening : Passing of Gang Starr Iconoclast Brings Supposed Experts of Marketing Matters Into Sharp Relief

*facepalm*

That should be enough to be going on with.

Pop A Cap On Tick

Not on tick exactly, but close. I’m gobsmacked to learn that you can rent guns for $10. DIY death at discounted prices – only in a certain country…

A commenter on YouTube called this guy ‘the Colonel Sanders of murder’. Exactly.

UPDATE: Compare and contrast:

Yea kids!

(Do they mean wigs or weed, btw?) Cognitively dissonant much, America?