] In any good community, people take care of each other. If
] someone is robbed, people put in what they can to help
] them out. Therefore, I am planning to raise $2,000 for
] this girl (the cost of her settlement), because I think
] she's been robbed by the RIAA. Other folks tend to agree
] with me.

Datatype: Raising $2000 for that 12 year old...

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Hold onto your seat...

Freak out man!!!

] Mysteriously snuffed out candles, weird sensations and
] shivers down the spine may not be due to the presence of
] ghosts in haunted houses but to very low frequency sound
] that is inaudible to humans.
]
] British scientists have shown in a controlled experiment
] that the extreme bass sound known as infrasound produces
] a range of bizarre effects in people including anxiety,
] extreme sorrow and chills -- supporting popular
] suggestions of a link between infrasound and strange
] sensations.
]
] "Normally you can't hear it," Dr Richard Lord, an
] acoustic scientist at the National Physical Laboratory in
] England who worked on the project, said Monday.
]
] Lord and his colleagues, who produced infrasound with a
] seven meter (yard) pipe and tested its impact on 750
] people at a concert, said infrasound is also generated by
] natural phenomena.
]
] "Some scientists have suggested that this level of sound
] may be present at some allegedly haunted sites and so
] cause people to have odd sensations that they attribute
] to a ghost -- our findings support these ideas," said
] Professor Richard Wiseman, a psychologist at the
] University of Hertfordshire in southern England.

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] The world has known about the small-world phenomenon
] since sociologist Stanley Milgram's 1967 study found that
] it took, on average, six exchanges among acquaintances to
] get a letter from a random correspondent in Omaha,
] Nebraska to a Boston recipient identified only by a brief
] description.
] ...
] Columbia University researchers have filled in the blanks
] by carrying out a larger, more detailed experiment over
] the Internet. The results match many of the broad
] conclusions of Milgram's work, but show that Milgram's
] conclusion about the importance of hubs -- people who
] have many connections -- may be off, at least in regards
] to social networks.
]

It turns out that social networks do not behave like the scale-free networks exhibited by web page linking. There is a cost to participation in a social network. Folks with fewer connections were more likely to pass on the message.

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] The LIBRARIAN
]
] ACTION FIGURE
]
] COMING THIS FALL, 2003!

Complete with "Shush-ing" action.

LibrarianActionFigure.com

] An exotic kind of nuclear explosive being developed by
] the US Department of Defense could blur the critical
] distinction between conventional and nuclear weapons. The
] work has also raised fears that weapons based on this
] technology could trigger the next arms race.

New Scientist: Gamma Bombs

Scanning cellular phone calls, back when it was inexpensive, used to be exciting mostly because you weren't supposed to be able to do that. Once you'd done it, and done it for a while, it lost its edge. There was the occaisonal gem, like the time we caught a redneck admitting to her boyfriend (much to his chagrin) that she had tried LSD at a party the night before, but these were mostly lost in a sea of boring conversations about dinner and pets... This website is similar, but its about written notes, found floating in the street, and this guy has filtered out all of the grocery lists, flyers, and forms. All thats left is the acid.

FOUND Magazine, if you're bored

] Late this year the company plans to begin auctioning the
] best seats to concerts through ticketmaster.com.
]
] With no official price ceiling on such tickets,
] Ticketmaster will be able to compete with brokers and
] scalpers for the highest price a market will bear.
]
] "The tickets are worth what they're worth," said John
] Pleasants, Ticketmaster's president and chief executive.
] "If somebody wants to charge $50 for a ticket, but it's
] actually worth $1,000 on eBay, the ticket's worth
] $1,000."

Ticketmaster Auction Will Let Highest Bidder Set Concert Prices

] "You drink tap water? Are you crazy?" asks a 21-year-old
] radio producer from the Chicago area. "I only drink
] bottled water." In a trendy nightclub in New York City,
] the bartender tells guests they can only be served
] bottled water, which costs $5 for each tiny pint
] container. One outraged clubber is stopped by the
] restroom attendant as she tries to refill the bottle from
] the tap. "You can't do that," says the attendant. "New
] York's tap water isn't safe."

Hartford Advocate: What's in your Bottled Water?

] GERLACH, NV - The Burning Man festival, a prominent
] artistic and countercultural event that draws tens of
] thousands of people to the Nevada desert annually, is in
] danger of cancellation this week because "no one had
] their shit together enough to even make it," organizers
] said Tuesday.

The Onion | No One Makes It To Burning Man Festival