Poll: Colorado pot amendment favored to pass, could steal votes from Obama – TPM2012

Support is growing for a proposed Colorado amendment to legalize marijuana, a new poll released Wednesday shows, and the referendum could upend the former member of the Choom Gang who currently occupies the White House.   Original post on talkingpointsmemo.com    Comments on reddit.com   

F-35 fighter jet’s escalating costs are on Washington’s radar – latimes.com

The weapons program, whose price tag has nearly doubled to about $400 billion since 2001, is flying into a fierce budget battle in Congress. It’s also taking flak from allies that are helping to foot the bill.   Original post on latimes.com    Comments on reddit.com   

PirateBox Takes File-Sharing Off The Radar and Offline, For Next To Nothing – TorrentFreak

When confronted with a doomsday scenario where mainstream online file-sharing becomes a thing of the past, it’s not uncommon for people to refer to days gone by, when files were swapped freely offline using discs and other mediums. Now, an interesting and compact system can deliver the [g]olden days of data swapping with a modern twist, by turning any open space into a wireless and anonymous file-sharing system at a rock-bottom price.   Original post on torrentfreak.com    Comments on digg.com