] Take a quick look at the pair of toads 4-year-old Casey
] Dicken found in her grandparents' pool yesterday, and
] they look relatively normal.
] They may even look like they're doing something a
] 4-year-old shouldn't see and probably wouldn't
] understand.
] But look closer, and there's something different about
] the two toads.
] They are one. They're connected. The two amphibians are
] conjoined, un-identical twins.

Girl finds two-headed toad in Hopkinton

There seems to be a whole movement of people who enjoy turning very low-tech objects into higher tech ones. For example, the guy that sent this link is really excited about the prospect of having a typewriter that is a keyboard.

Desktop Cell Phone Conversion

] WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 %u2014 After a weekend of antiwar
] protests that many participants say signaled an expansion
] of public opposition to military action against Iraq,
] some organizers are facing criticism, much of it from
] within the movement, about the role played by their
] group, International Answer.
] Attendance at rallies in Washington and San Francisco
] last Saturday was in the tens of thousands, and reflected
] a mix of views that spanned the social and political
] spectrums. Many protest organizers say the presence of
] labor unions, religious groups, business people and
] soccer moms showed a growing mainstream opposition to the
] war.

Some War Protesters Uneasy With Others

] Carlos nonchalantly asks whether his drink was made with
] whole or skim milk. He takes a moment to slurp on his
] grande Caffe Mocha in a crowded Starbucks, and then he
] gets back to explaining how much he wants HIV, the virus
] that causes AIDS. His eyes light up as he says that the
] actual moment of transmission, the instant he gets HIV,
] will be "the most erotic thing I can imagine." He seems
] like a typical thirty-two-year-old man, but, in fact, he
] has a secret life. Carlos is chasing the bug.

Wow, this is really fucked up. I can't believe that someone would think that living with AIDS is anything like living with diabetes. This made my stomach turn.

RollingStone.com: News: Bug Chasers

] LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists are turning to desktop
] printers in an effort to produce three-dimensional tubes
] of living tissue and possibly even entire organs.
] Instead of using a degradable scaffold and covering it
] with cells to produce tissue, scientists in the United
] States are modifying ink jet printers and using cells to
] create 3D structures.

Reuters | Latest Financial News / Full News Coverage

People always ask me why I feel the way I do about San Francisco... Well, this person said it better than I ever could.

SF I love you. Unrequitedly.

Nobody loves Winnie the Pooh more than Shirley Slesinger Lasswell. The 79-year-old widow wears Pooh pajamas, Pooh watches, and Pooh polo shirts. A Pooh waves at other drivers from the rear window of her Mercedes as she is chauffeured around Beverly Hills. But these days, some of her most treasured Pooh merchandise languishes in boxes in her lawyer's office. It breaks Shirley's heart. "I never wanted Winnie the Pooh to go through anything like this,'' she says. "It's just not right."

Pooh would no doubt scratch his fluff-stuffed head in disbelief at what's going on. Shirley and her daughter, Pati, are embroiled in an epic legal battle with the Walt Disney Co. over the merchandising rights to the world's most beloved bear.

Fortune.com - Magazine - The Curse of Pooh

] WASHINGTON, Jan 21 - Recording companies won a victory in
] their fight against online piracy on Tuesday, when a U.S.
] court ordered Verizon Communications to turn over the
] name of a customer suspected of downloading more than 600
] songs in one day over the Internet.
] The decision could set an important precedent as the
] recording industry asks schools, businesses and Internet
] providers to help them track down the online song
] swappers that they believe are cutting into their sales.

For logging into NYTIMES, use cpunk1:cpunk1

Federal Judge Says Verizon Must Reveal Internet Song Swapper

] She's the closest thing to a supermodel you'll see in
] connection with Linux's biggest trade show. Nobody knows
] her name, but with immaculately coiffed blond hair,
] striking black glasses and a perky grin, she's an
] idealized image of the geek girl next door.
] The female model appears in glossy ads, direct-mail
] brochures and the website promoting LinuxWorld Conference
] and Expo, the biannual gathering of the Linux faithful
] taking place this week in New York City

Wired News: Model Linux Geek an MS User Too?

AWESOME. The helicopter photos are finally here. You're not going to believe them. Especially the last couple that show Market St absolutely packed for blocks and blocks!

Helicopter Pictures of SF Demo : SF Indymedia