>> Fifty Nude Women. “People shouldn’t have to rent a porn video just to see bodies,” says filmmaker Margot Roth, before setting out “to make a film that would reflect the many ways that women really look, as a sort of psycho-medical resource.” You can buy the film for $20.

>> L.A. gets 24-hour medical marijuana vending machines. They’re plugged in at at least 3 dispensaries so far, and require fingerprint identification and a prepaid card with a magnetic stripe.

>> Many consumers don’t care that they may be buying blood diamonds, David Lazarus of the LA Times finds. They do, however, seem to like the rebates from De Beers; the diamond company settled a class-action lawsuit “alleging that the company monopolized diamond supplies and fixed prices” and “agreed to spend $295 million on rebates of up to 30% to all consumers who purchased diamonds from 1994 to 2006 — whether or not they were bought directly from De Beers.”

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