From Misty: Booksfree.com. Like Netflix, but for books.

"Hopefully one day we can get the students to go back to eating goldfish,' Levin quipped. 'It was a lot safer for all of us."

If not for the goldfish.

CNN.com - Rioting: The new campus craze - Feb. 26, 2004

I've done the Belief-O-Matic before, and just did it again, and it came out the same as before--100% Reform Judaism. Weird, but very interesting.

Even if YOU don't know what faith you are, Belief-O-Matic™ knows. Answer 20 questions about your concept of God, the afterlife, human nature, and more, and Belief-O-Matic™ will tell you what religion (if any) you practice...or ought to consider practicing.

Cory Doctorow's second novel, Eastern Standard Tribe, can be downloaded free of charge at his website.

It's time again for the ACME Heart Maker:

. . . it’s amazing how many people have this huge flaming emotional reaction to Atkins, as though it’s some sort of cult complete with scriptures and liturgy. I didn’t read a single menu, didn’t buy a book, didn’t plop down the Jacksons for Atkins-branded products; I just dropped cereal and juice in the morning, bread for lunch, crackers for snacks and pasta for supper. No dessert. Lean meat. That’s it. Voila: three weeks later all my old pants fit.

LILEKS (James) The Bleat

Someone at my office was looking for a "white noise" CD and ran across these: nature sounds. I've enjoyed listening to all of them--I like the fact that there are extraneous, surprising sounds in some of them--a clock ticking or a baby crying in the distance. Kind of fun.

Yahoo! News - Top Stories Photos - AP: "A group of Cubans sails toward the Florida Straits on a modified 1959 Buick Tuesday February 3, 2004. The pilots were the same two men who tried to sail a converted 1951 Chevy flatbed truck to the U.S. last year. "