] To the person (or persons) who finds it funny to
] repeatedly position my star wars figurines in
] inappropriate positions, please stop.

Star Wars figurines

] Today there was another rubber band shooting occurrence.
] I want to remind you all that this is not acceptable
] behavior at work.

It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye.

Some companies have no sense of humor.

] Many of the 7,000-member Skver sect of Hasidim in New
] Square, 30 miles north of Manhattan, believe God has
] revealed himself in fish form.
]
] According to two fish-cutters at the New Square Fish
] Market, the carp was about to be slaughtered and made
] into gefilte fish for Sabbath dinner when it suddenly
] began shouting apocalyptic warnings in Hebrew.

The Observer | International | Word is made flesh as God reveals himself... as a fish

I watched our "fearless leader" speak last night, and I have to know: was I the only one who picked up on the fact that he was standing in front of a fake "East Room" backdrop? Usually he walks elegantly down that long hallway to the podium, last night he walked up from the side, and you could tell from the shadows around his hair and his ear that it was a backdrop. It was very distracting, and not a good fake. I wonder which bunker he was really in.

] In a study to be published in the journal Biology of
] Reproduction, researchers collected samples from the
] underarms of men who refrained from using deodorant for
] four weeks. The extracts were then blended and applied to
] the upper lips of 18 women, aged 25 to 45.
]
] The women rated their moods on a fixed scale for a period
] of six hours. The findings suggested something in the
] perspiration brightened their moods and helped them feel
] less tense. Blood analyses also showed a rise in levels
] of the reproductive luteinizing hormone that typically
] surge before ovulation.

Study: Male sweat brightens women's moods

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Three men have died trying to retrieve a mobile phone from a pit latrine in the Kenyan town of Mombasa.

University student Dora Mwabela dropped the phone into the latrine while she was answering a call of nature, the Daily Nation newspaper reports.

She offered a reward of 1,000 shillings ($13) for anyone who could recover the phone, worth 6,000 shillings.

Most Kenyans survive on less than $1 a day.

...

"The fumes inside must be extremely poisonous considering the short time it was taking to disable the retrievers," he said.

The cell phone was not found.

BBC NEWS | Africa | Latrine deaths over Kenyan cell phone

] PORTLAND, Maine - Music buyers who applied for a share of
] a price-fixing settlement involving major U.S. record
] distributors and retailers will receive about $12.60
] apiece if a judge signs off on the deal.

I will not be using my check to buy a CD.

Yahoo! News - Consumers in CD Settlement May Get Money

] The cafeteria menus in the three House office buildings
] changed the name of "french fries" to "freedom fries," in
] a culinary rebuke of France stemming from anger over the
] country's refusal to support the U.S. position on Iraq.
]
] Ditto for "french toast," which will be known as "freedom
] toast."

I'm going to go home and put on my freedom maid outfit, freedom kiss my boyfriend, and maybe later i'll go out and get a freedom manicure.

CNN.com - House cafeterias change names for 'french' fries and 'french' toast - Mar. 12, 2003

] Hamsters more likely to bite
]
] Scientists say people are more likely to be hurt by a
] hamster than by a shark.

I believe it!!! My pet hamster bites me a lot more than my pet shark does!

Survey: 'Shark summer' bred fear, not facts

] With more and more personal information flooding the Web
] daily, only the John Smiths of the world remain
] relatively immune.
]
] Searchers are often foiled by common names. If their
] long-lost friend is named John Smith, for example, they'd
] have to wade through 402,000 Google results to find him.
]
] To winnow the results, SearchEngineWatch.com's Sullivan
] suggested including key words like the person's hometown,
] middle name, or a former job in the search.

I'm actually pretty upset, I Googled myself yesterday and around page 45 out of who knows how many pages, I gave up. Damn my common name! And I even tried my current hometown, I found out I'm not the only Jessica ______ in my -town-! There's THREE of us! One has the same MIDDLE INITIAL as me! Blah. I guess that's good, though.. although when I did have a stalker, I sort of secretly enjoyed the attention..

Who's Googling you right now?