I just read a recent post on a blog I follow that's written by a
computer hardware designer - perhaps most famous for the Chumby - who
spends a lot of his time close to his sources, which is to say, in
China. The subject is his experience with a shipment of fake flash
memory, and his experience has a lot of parallels with, say, buying
fake Pu'er cakes:

http://www.google.com/reader/view/?t...%3Ffeed%3Drss2

(I read the blog via RSS. I'd happily give the normal URL for the
blog, but it isn't working now.)

/Lew
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