Random NYTimes registration generator

I really loathe online news sites that force you to register in order to view their content. There are enough excellent sites out there that do not require you to register so I happily shun the ones that make you register (what nefarious things are they doing with that data anyways?). Random NYTimes.com registration generator.

Pursuit of an Ebay scammer

There’s a story at Fast Company about the pursuit of Jay Nelson, an Ebay scammer. “Though Nelson never wielded a gun, Higgins started thinking of him as the John Dillinger of the Web — someone who excelled at a particular kind of crime and was brilliant when it came to eluding capture. In contemporary terms, Nelson’s case was the Internet version of Catch Me If You Can.”