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] AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch "coffee shops" famous for
] selling cannabis are about to see business go up in
] smoke.

Yahoo! News - Bad Trip Ahead for Dutch Joint Joints

The EU constitution.

The European Convention

] Stinkyfeet Goal: To infect myself with athlete's foot.

This is actually pretty gross.

The StinkyFeet Diaries (TheSpark.com)

] Visualizing huge numbers can be very difficult. People
] regularly talk about millions of miles, billions of
] bytes, or trillions of dollars, yet it's still hard to
] grasp just how much a "billion" really is. The MegaPenny
] Project aims to help by taking one small everyday item,
] the U.S. penny, and building on that to answer the
] question: "What would a billion (or a trillion) pennies
] look like?"

The MegaPenny Project

You know, I thought I was jaded towards all of Flash animated music funny ha-ha sites, but this one managed to make me laugh for a little bit.

"We like the moon, because it is close to us"

We Like The Moon - Flash

] HONG KONG (Reuters) - A top Hong Kong scientist said on
] Friday it was likely the deadly SARS virus that has
] killed almost 700 people worldwide jumped to humans from
] civet cats, which are considered a delicacy by many
] people in southern China.

I've always known ctas were evil. Long live dogs!

ABCNEWS.com : SARS Virus Likely Came from Civet Cats-Scientists

Panoramic view of Mount Everest. Quite impressive.

Mount Everest. 360 degree panorama from the top of Mt Everest - QTVR panoramic movie from panoramas.dk

A nice little piece by Cory Doctorow, even if it is
archival and a littledated. Here's an excerpt which --while not really representative-- I found to be keenly observant.

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| Take eBay: every seller there has a damned good reason for
| double-checking their listings for typos and misspellings. Try
| searching for "plam" on eBay. Right now, that turns up nine typoed
| listings for "Plam Pilots." Misspelled listings don't show up in
| correctly-spelled searches and hence garner fewer bids and lower
| sale-prices. You can almost always get a bargain on a Plam Pilot at
| eBay.
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Metacrap

] A bomb exploded in an empty classroom at the Yale
] University law school Wednesday, sending debris flying
] and students scrambling for safety. No injuries were
] reported

Bomb damages Yale University law school; no injuries reported