Wilson Ramos, catcher for the Washington Nationals, kidnapped in Venezuela.
Gangsters killed and beheaded an Internet blogger Wednesday in Nuevo Laredo, the fourth slaying in the city involving people associated with social media sites since early September.
Floyd Landis has been convicted of “hacking into the computers” of a French drug testing lab, and given a 12 month probated sentence.
(By the way, I know the Jefferson County and landfill stories are on FARK, and I usually don’t throw up links that are already on FARK. In the Jefferson County case, I wanted to link that because I swear I’ve covered Jefferson County here before; but I can’t find that link right now. As far as the landfill goes, that’s one of those stories that I think is too important not to link.)
(And speaking of FARK, does anyone have a take on what’s going on with the FARK moderators and JoePa? There seems to be a lot of criticism in the FARK threads that the mods have been several days late and more than a few dollars short in greenlighting Penn State related threads. I know there are three things in life that FARKers love: beer, the female anatomy, and complaining about the moderators. But even by FARK standards, the criticism has been pointed and sustained.)
