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How about if your son was 23 years old? Would you care?

A new line of Burton Snowboards — dubbed the “Love” line — is raising just such questions and sparking a spirited debate among parents and snowboarders across the country. The boards feature retro images of Playboy Playmates that — while certainly leaving little to the imagination — somehow seem innocuous compared with the fare that regularly gets served up these days in “Girls Gone Wild” TV commercials and the spam that clogs our inboxes.

Between current economic conditions and the technological evolution of the Internet, the traditional approach most job seekers have taken in the past is no longer viable.

The approach — developing a resume and cover letter, locating jobs on and submitting your resume to corporate sites and job banks,and crossing your fingers in hopes of receiving a call from a hiring manager — is, for the most part, a thing of the past. The new approach is far different. It boils down to the fact that there are fewer jobs available, more competition for those jobs and more touch points for recruiters and seekers to interact.

Basically, students from Richard Montgomery High School are copying the license plate numbers of their "enemies" ('cause high schoolers lead such vicious, angsty lives) on glossy photo paper in a font that looks just like the one Maryland uses for its license plates. They tape the crappy fake license over their own, and intentionally zip past a stupid speedtrap camera, and a couple days later, their victim receives a ticket in the mail. The really clever little bastards are borrowing cars that are the same model as the one their victim owns.

Here are the extraordinary intimate pictures Steve captured of the people and landscapes of the continent...