A.M Scouting Report: Stop reading this blog! (and go play Nintendo)

...because according to this Slate analysis, reading newspapers online could actually be worse for the environment than reading the dead tree version.  The math they use is a little fuzzy, but it's a good reality check for us computer hippies.

...Facebook pulled a profile called "Kill with Me", where users were showed an image of a man being tortured with the text: "This guy is going to die. You want to see his stinking flesh burn and bleed and blacken?...The more fans I get, the more I'll show ..."  Turned out the profile was set up by a company running the UK ad campaign for the torture porn thriller "Untraceable."

...from the 'how the heck did this reach YouTube's most viewed list' files...a video called, "Contest 1 - Winner gets 100 $ - talents search," where an odd, jerkily animated woman announces that winners of an Internet fame contest will get "one hundred dollar". 

...let wikileak leak! As Henry Weinstein writes, lawyers from the EFF, ACLU, Public Citizen and various news organizations asked a judge to lift his injunction against the muckracking wiki, saying it was too broad: "the only way to describe it was as if a judge had shut down a newspaper because of controversy over one article."

...someone on Digg found a site that lets you play original Nintendo games directly from your bowser...er, I mean browser.