Bite Size News

--The Executive Director of the Turnpike Authority wants to CharlieCard everything so that you can use your card at the tolls. While we're all for not having to save spare change, automation might make it easier to miss fare hikes. [Boston Herald]

--Massachusetts Bay Community College has been accused of spending money like a drunken sailor. While $450,000 may sound like peanuts in a city whose private schools roll in money, some staff aren't happy with the "frivolous spending" on marketing and PR. [Boston Globe]

--After a melee and gunfire erupted at the nightclub Aria during a "Girls Gone Wild" party, the club has voluntarily surrendered its liquor license to the city. [Boston Herald]

--The city is thinking about energy from a heaping pile of compost in Roslindale, which the Globe affectionately describes as an "undulating mound." [Boston Globe]

--Comcast said in its FCC hearing yesterday at Harvard Law School that its blocking or delaying of file-sharing is part of standard "traffic management." [Boston Herald]

--Did you know that it costs Cambridge about $30,000 a year to name squares after people? If Matt Damon and Ben Affleck want to do Cambridge a favor, they could turn down attempts to dedicate intersections to them. [Cambridge Chronicle]

Meet the shawabatis of the MFA. Image by AntyDiluvian from photos tagged "Bostonist" on Flickr.