Friday morning coffee reads

A regular roundup of interesting stories from the week to enjoy wit your morning coffee.

1. Ex-clown is hard to hide on a resumé.
2. Should we stop looking for intelligent life?
3. Anger over tourists swarming hot spots sparks backlash.
4. How I caused California’s housing crisis.
5. The major mobile providers — AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon — are selling your location information.
6. How the Internet killed the critic.
7. A bank glitch gave a down-on-his-luck Australian man access to unlimited funds. Then he did exactly what you think he did with it.
8. Ethiopia is now Africa’s fastest growing economy.
9. The trouble with hating Ernest Hemingway.