] bookcrossing
] n. the practice of leaving a book in a public place to be
] picked up and read by others, who then do likewise.
]
] (added to the Concise Oxford English Dictionary in August
] 2004)
]
]
]
]
] You've come to a friendly place, and we welcome you to
] our book-lovers' community. Our members love books enough
] to let them go—into the wild—to be found by others.
] Book sharing has never been more exciting, more
] serendipitous, than with BookCrossing. Our goal, simply,
] is to make the whole world a library. BookCrossing is a
] book exchange of infinite proportion, the first and only
] of its kind.

Interesting.

BookCrossing - Home - FREE YOUR BOOKS!

] Bill Hicks was one of four people I had never known
] personally, but seriously mourned their passing upon
] being notified of each of their deaths. The others were
] Jimi Hendrix, John Bonham, and George Harrison. When Bill
] died in February 1994, I felt as if I had lost a kindred
] spirit --- as I believe in truth just as strongly as he
] did. This was the case because Bill and I were both born
] under the sign of Sagittarius. People born under this
] sign are said to be perpetual students, and are very
] serious about honesty and truth. Sagittarians are also
] voracious readers, a subject about which Bill often
] joked.
]
]
] I had never known Bill Hicks, and likewise, I never had
] the chance to see his stand-up act, even though he was a
] friend of Bob Fiorella, a comedian who lives in my own
] city of Buffalo, New York USA. Buffalo is the type of
] city that doesn’t have that big of a night-life, and
] this is because of the perpetually depressed economy in
] our area. Because of  my own life experience, I relate
] to what he discussed in his act on a number of levels.
]
]
] Kevin Booth was Bill’s closest friend, and partner in
] many adventures. Kevin was also Bill’s producer and his
] business partner. Together, they began something called
] Sacred Cow Productions, which today, can be found at the
] website listed immediately below. Unfortunately, Bill
] died before the Internet had become a daily part of many
] of our lives --- and because of this, Bill never had the
] chance to see Sacred Cow become an online force for truth
] in comedy:

MAYBE QUARTERLY - Vol 2 / Issue 1 - Kevin Booth Talks About Bill Hicks

noteworthy wrote:
] Think of the children!
]
] Leading lawmakers and the new leader of the FCC have
] proposed a broad expansion of indecency rules, which were
] significantly toughened just last year. They are also looking
] for significant increases in the size of fines and new
] procedures that could jeopardize the licenses of stations that
] repeatedly violate the rules.
]
] Some senior lawmakers have suggested it may be time to extend
] the indecency and profanity rules to cable and satellite
] television providers. Lawyers for cable companies say any
] effort to impose indecency standards on paid programming would
] violate the First Amendment.
]
] "I would welcome voluntary actions by the industry to address
] both indecency and gratuitous violence, but they aren't
] stepping up to the plate, and that's why Congress cannot wait
] any longer to protect our communities and our families," Mr.
] Rockefeller said when he introduced the measure. "If the
] industry won't protect our children from gratuitous
] violence and indecency, then we must act."

I think the whole indecency campaign is just to keep porn valuable. You wouldn't be able to sell it as easily if it were allowed to be everywhere. Also, people probably wouldn't give a shit after awhile. Once a taboo like this is widely exposed, Christians may no longer need to giggle when they say the word "penis." Once the whole family sits around and watches hours upon hours of fucking on thanksgiving, they might be comfortable with themselves and their bodies to forgo the watching of violently repressed homosexual ball rituals every year. The FCC is just trying to keep the billion dollar porn industry alive and thriving.

RE: Under New Chief, FCC Considers Widening Its Reach

] Russian doctors have conducted an 11-hour operation to
] replace a patient’s deformed penis with one grown on
] his forearm, the Moskovskiy Komsomolets daily reports.
]
] The 30-year-old Russian man, whose name was changed in
] the article to protect his privacy, had a defect from
] birth — his penis was crooked, two-and-a-half-inches
] long and lacked a scrotum, the newspaper writes.
]
] The doctors had the penis removed and attached to the
] man’s arm. Using his body tissue it grew to
] six-and-a-half inches and was sewn back on to his groin.
] Silicone tubes were inserted into the organ to ensure an
] erection was possible. Doctors also created a scrotum
] from the patient’s own skin and placed silicone
] testicles in it.
]
] A Moscow surgeon said the man will be able to have sex in
] a few months. He added: “Women will never suspect it is
] artificial.�

He should grow several.

Russian Man Grows Penis on Arm - NEWS - MOSNEWS.COM

] SAN JOSE, Calif. Mar 23, 2005 — A woman's meal at a
] Wendy's restaurant brought a whole new meaning to the
] term "finger food." The woman bit into a portion of a
] human finger while eating a bowl of chili Tuesday night
] at the San Jose restaurant, Santa Clara County health
] officials said Wednesday.

Its Made from PEOPLE!!!

ABC News: Woman Eating Chili Bites Into Human Finger

] Scientists at MIT's Media Lab in the United States have
] invented an alarm clock called Clocky to make even the
] doziest sleepers, who repeatedly hit the snooze button,
] leap out of bed.
]
] After the snooze button is pressed, the clock, which is
] equipped with a set of wheels, rolls off the table to
] another part of the room.
]
] "When the alarm sounds again, simply finding Clocky ought
] to be strenuous enough to prevent even the doziest owner
] from going back to sleep," New Scientist magazine said
] Tuesday.

I could use one of these.

Oddly Enough News Article | Reuters.com

] Iceland's parliament voted overwhelmingly this week to
] grant Mr Fischer citizenship - and with it an Icelandic
] passport.

BBC NEWS | Europe | Fischer 'put Iceland on the map'

The discovery also raises interesting biological questions -- including whether it gets in the way of evolution, which depends on mutations changing an organism rather than being put right by a backup system.

[ Fascinating. -k]

Startling Scientists, Plant Fixes Its Flawed Gene

] (CNN) -- A student on Monday killed two of his
] grandparents, then went on a shooting rampage at his
] Minnesota high school, killing seven people and wounding
] as many as 13 others before killing himself, officials
] said.

CNN.com - Officials: Student's rampage leaves 10 dead - Mar 22, 2005

] A 5-year-old girl was arrested, cuffed and put in back of
] a police cruiser after an outburst at school where she
] threw books and boxes, kicked a teacher in the shins,
] smashed a candy dish, hit an assistant principal in the
] stomach and drew on the walls.
]
]
]
] The students were counting jelly beans as part of a math
] exercise at Fairmount Park Elementary School when the
] little girl began acting silly. That's when her teacher
] took away her jelly beans, outraging the child.
]
]
]
] Minutes later, the 40-pound girl was in the back of a
] police cruiser, under arrest for battery. Her hands were
] bound with plastic ties, her ankles in handcuffs.

5-Year-Old Cuffed, Arrested in Florida