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This month: 39 entries.

http://economist.com/world/europe/displayStory.cfm?Story_
ID=666287
missionaries are being sent from the developing world to Britain: "The vicar of West Dulwich comes from Ghana." 00:19

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/26/business/26GLAS.html "Self-Cleaning Windows to Be Sold in U.S. This Year" 16:38

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/50/19979.html predictions of console unit sales. This is ridiculous. There is no way in hell to predict that by the end of 2004, for example, Sony will have sold 46.05 million PS2s. 00:51

http://www.lukeford.com/stars/male/ron_jeremy.html when (if?) it gets boring, skip to "On The Town With Ron Jeremy" (about half-way through) 18:52

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/010625/27/bwda5.html painful: temperature on the tube estimated to exceed 90F 03:17

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/24/magazine/24HARVARD.html Harvard has a $19 billion endowment, and uses it for not much 17:39

http://www.geekizoid.com/faq.shtml how to troll on slashdot 16:54

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31282-2001Jun21.html if mothering is the most difficult job in the world, mothers should stay home (so don't argue that!) 13:00

http://www.city-journal.org/html/11_2_survivor.html on the vigorous battle for kindergarten spots in NYC 12:31

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/06/magazine/06INSOMNIA.html rare genetic disorder brings insomnia, then death, to half the members of an Italian family 18:53

http://www.jei.org/Archive/JEIR00/0035f.html description of the Japanese legal system. There are no juries, ever, in Japan. 03:08

http://www.booksonline.co.uk/booksol?pg=/01/6/2/bosul2.html book review: "British tourists have been finding foreign travel sexually liberating for centuries" 12:55

http://www.sciam.com/2001/0701issue/0701nash.html on hypnotism: "anyone who can read a script with some degree of expression can learn how to hypnotize someone"!!! 12:21

http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/worldhis.html historical estimates of world population 18:48

http://slate.msn.com/dialogues/01-06-11/dialogues.asp Richard Posner, Peter Singer talk about animal rights 13:54

http://www.guardian.co.uk/saturday_review/story/0,3605,503921,
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Salman Rushdie: prefigures "Series 7" via an essay on reality TV 17:26

http://www.newyorker.com/FACT/?010528fa_FACT (excellent) story on online worlds 13:43

http://grc.com/dos/grcdos.htm (techy) notes on a DDoS attach 00:08

http://arum.doit.wisc.edu/ (cam) big, stinky flower opens 13:18

http://www.michaelnelsonbooks.com/how_we_told_the_world.htm Times reporter misses the death of Queen Victoria: "It has to be confessed with shame that they were emitted by persons connected with the press, although not, of course, with any London paper of long standing." 10:52

http://www.newyorker.com/SITE/CONTACT_US/ "Submission Guidelines: We are happy to consider new contributors, particularly those who are familiar with the magazine." You're kidding me. That's important? Really? 18:09

http://www.ips-dc.org/reports/top200.htm Study: "Top 200: The Rise of Corporate Global Power" 16:20

http://www.fastcompany.com/online/07/082doerr.html Interview with venture capitalist John Doerr. If you want to start a high-tech company... (A few years old.) 11:09

http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/poetry/story/0,6000,
482390,00.html
Winners of SMS poetry competition. (Comments at least as interesting as the poems.) 21:29

http://espn.go.com/mlb/columns/stark_jayson/1201283.html (First story.) Baseballer thwacks pitcher for two home runs after pitcher kills his (computer game) character. 21:20