Cory Doctorow says, “I’ve been giving away my books ever since my first novel came out, and boy has it ever made me a bunch of money.” His article in Forbes on the topic is notable not as much for its content (if you read boingboing you’ve heard it before) but for the fact that Forbes thinks the topic is worth exposing to its audience. Cory’s opening sentence captures why the Forbes crowd cares. [boingboing]

The Seattle Times has a brief but fascinating profile of the daily skirmishes between illegal immigrants, drug smugglers and police in the municipal tunnels that connect Nogales, Arizona, with Nogales, Mexico. It’s a setting rife with opportunity for a fiction writer with an eye for a dark and gritty urban future. [digg]

Experts in the field, that’s who. Or to be more precise, experts reading Wikipedia in their field of expertise consider the online encyclopedia more accurate than non-experts reading the same articles. [slashdot]

Alan Durning over at WorldChanging asks: “Would you, personally, rent your car during off hours?” It’s a fascinating idea: allow people to rent your car by the hour when it’s not in use. Fraught with a ton of practical difficulties, but fun to think about anyway.

Fab @ Home is a wiki that shows you how to build your own fabber for your kitchen counter. ‘Cause everyone needs a resin model of… something. [engadget]