rock on, Illinois!

Via Salon and the Trib: Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich orders prescriptions filled.
(article, article)

fake DVDs

This Slate article on fake DVDs, the sort that are on the streets in NYC's Chinatown everywhere, helps explain why they always look so authentic:

At Sasha's, the expats explained that buying real DVDs wasn't an option, especially for the Chinese, because real DVDs cost 10 times more and weren't even available. (The TV producer claimed she knew of a store that carried them, but the others disputed this.) Fake DVDs, moreover, often were real DVDs: The same factories that produced and shipped real ones during the day produced and shipped fake ones at night.