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This week's episode brings a brief essay, retransmission of an excerpt of a program from US government external broadcaster Voice of America concerning the cyber-snooping situation, and a news miscellany.

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• Zero Hedge: Number Of Older Workers (55 And Over) Rises To New Record High
• PJ Tatler: Payroll-to-Population Ratio Keeps Shrinking
• Zero Hedge: Where The (Low-Paying) Jobs Were Are
• Public Libraries News: New Children’s Laureate Malorie Blackman will “bang the drum” for libraries
• The Bookseller: Blackman named Children’s Laureate
• The Telegraph: Malorie Blackman is a great choice to inspire children - - Malorie Blackman, author of the Noughts & Crosses, has the wit and passion to be a fantastic Children’s Laureate for 2013-2015, says Martin Chilton.
• BBC News: Malorie Blackman Q&A: Meet the new Children's Laureate
• B&N Removes Nook for PC and Nook for Mac Apps
• The Daily Dot: How to get by on the Internet without PRISM companies
• SNWH: The Threat of Immortality
• Fox News: College professor says 'obese' grad applicants lack 'willpower' to finish degrees

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This week's program brings the annual warnings about hurricane season followed by Profile America mentioning an interesting new data release the Census Bureau is making and then a news miscellany.

Related links:

• PCWorld: EFF asks for help defeating podcast patent troll
• Ars Technica: EFF wants $30,000 to defeat a podcasting patent troll
• Electronic Frontier Foundation: Help Save Podcasting!
• The Register: Yahoo! ready! to! fling! $600m! at! Hulu!
• PCWorld: Find your own private Internet with Freenet

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Due to aggravated circumstances that have yet to abate, a truncated episode is presented with a news miscellany.

Related links:

• PCMag.com: The Windows 8 Revolt -- Microsoft still has the chance to ditch Windows 8 and return to its tried-and-true operating system. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like that will happen.
• ZDNet: First real-world usage figures suggest Chromebooks are struggling
• The Register: Manual override: Raspberry Pi beginners' books -- Do the 'getting started' guides make your first slice of Pi more tasty?
• Ars Technica: Anonymous raises $54,000 to start a news site
• Public Libraries News: Fifty shades of volunteer library

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