Nivi : Greasemonkey will blow up business models (as well as your mind):

Greasemonkey lets you mash-up websites. It lets you extend and script websites and integrate that script right into the original site as if the designers had intended it to be there. It lets you use their web site, their data, their servers, their work to serve your purpose and function. There will soon be an army of hackers enhancing every site you use. Whether that site likes it or not.

Crystal Meth in Kalispell, MT

The New West Network published a series in March-April 2005 about the impact of crystal meth on the small town of Kalispell, MT. A cycle of drugs, prositution, and criminal activities ensued allegedly centered around a prominent Kalispell businessman.

Yet the [...] story isn’t ultimately about prostitution, or at least not the simple sex-for-money transaction that people associate with the word. Rather it’s about the hunger of addiction - the meth user shooting up more often, with larger doses, trying dope made with different precursor chemicals, always hoping to duplicate that first wonderful rush. Or the businessman run off the rails by a raging obsession, by a need for power, or sex, or a combination of both [...]

• Part 1: Inside the World of the 'Dasen Girls'
• Part 2: A Mother's Worst Nightmare
• Part 3: A Pillar of the Community
• Part 4: 'Our Give-A-Shitters Were Broken'
• Part 5: The Scourge of Rural America
• Part 6: Crime and Punishment

Tufte on Dog camouflage and interactive sculpture

Tufte on Dog camouflage and interactive sculpture

Technology journalism or blogging: Deconstructing Maui X-Stream

This DrunkenBlog: Deconstructing Maui X-Stream is a fantastic article, technically a blog post, but really a great piece of journalism. It tells the story (so far) of a company which appears to have taken several open source projects and products, relabelled them, recompiled them, and marketed them as its own commercial software. The article is thorough, researching many angles, asking for quotes and confirmations. It's what I thought journalism was supposed to be when I took the required Journalism 101 classes in college, not the ad nauseum on the runaway bride or Michael Jackson. Too much of what passes as journalism these days is simply rehashes of talking points from press releases.