"PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (AP) -- The risk of birth defects in children born to couples who are first or second cousins isn't as high as many experts had believed, according to a study that sheds new light on a practice that is stigmatized in many Western cultures."

There will be celebrations all across Kentucky and West Virginia tonight. One reveler in Bowling Green was quoted as saying "God Damn! Maybe little Jimmy ain't gunna grow up to be a retard after all! YeeHaa!"

CNN.com - Study: Marrying cousins not so risky - April 4, 2002

"I am outgoing, opptomistic, flirtatious, ans adventerous, with a touch of sophistication. I love to go out and have a good time with close friends as well as new ones!"

This girl just broke up with Matt Coleman. We stumbled upon her MSN profile. No, she's not REALLY 22... :)

MSN Member Directory - Public Profile

"The Canadian dollar's decline to one-month lows Monday was sparked by an April Fool's Day Internet spoof that said the market-friendly Martin will leave politics to breed cows and ducks. And the fall continued even as the rumor was denied. "

Damn!

Canadian dollar falls prey to April fool's hoax. - Apr. 1, 2002

This is the most whacked out April Fools joke I saw all day.

CNN.com - Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates murdered at Los Angeles charity event - April 1, 2002

"A Web site sponsored by Microsoft and Unisys as a way to steer big companies away from the Unix operating system is itself powered by Unix software.
The site, dubbed "We have the way out," runs on Web servers powered by FreeBSD, an open-source version of Unix, along with the Unix-based Web server Apache, according to Netcraft, which tracks Web site information."

High-profile anti-Unix site runs Unix - Tech News - CNET.com

"This is Flo. Her job is testing our image recognition algorithms, although she might not be aware of this. She goes in and out of the house through a cat door (below)."

heh...

Flo Control

Gun-control advocate Sarah Brady bought her son a powerful rifle for Christmas in 2000 - and may have skirted Delaware state background-check requirements, the New York Daily News has learned.

KRT Wire | 03/21/2002 | Gun control advocate may have violated gun laws

"The Industrial Memetics Institute is an unfathomably vast hierarchical bureaucracy made up of extremely boring people who spend their days in row after row of gray cubicles; sitting at gray desks, typing at gray computer terminals, and thinking gray thoughts. "

I updated the Industrial Memetics page... *I* think its pretty funny. Have a look... :)

The Industrial Memetics Institute

"Lesbian GNU/Linux provides more than a pure OS: it comes with more than 10000 packages, precompiled software bundled up in a nice format for easy installation on your machine."

Lesbian GNU/Linux

A free-spirited cow who eluded capture after escaping a date with death in a slaughterhouse 11 days ago was captured Tuesday in the back yard of a home.

CNN.com - Runaway cow captured in Ohio - February 26, 2002