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This month: 31 entries.

http://www.anonymousjuice.com/print/2/lawyer.html "My mother cried, and my father shook a regretful head on that buffeting spring day when I relayed the sad news that I had given up on my childhood dream of becoming a tobacco-industry lawyer." Two jokes here. Is this a good idea, generally? 11:38

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/29/dining/29RIVE.html "The Restaurant That Launched a Thousand Chefs" 15:57

http://www.adventurearabia.com/frankincensenf.htm "The finest frankincense in the world from the Sultanate of Oman" 10:05

http://www.moon-palace.de/tricky/060700.html tricky "concert": disparate reports 00:54

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/22/dining/22BARN.html?searchpv=day02 they're eating barnacles at restaurants in New York 12:19

http://www.narrandera.com/images/utelandscape.pdf meet real Aussie blokes at the Narrandera Show "Ute & Circle Work Competition" (!!!) 16:21

http://www.stayfreemagazine.org/public/wsj_finland.html in Finland, the amount you pay in speeding fines depends on your income 00:57

http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0133/meyers.php you can get free wireless internet access at some places in NY 17:48

http://www.boyakasha.co.uk/mp3.html Is it because I's black?--Ali G (Ali G!) MP3s 17:20

http://slate.msn.com/foreigners/entries/01-08-20_114080.asp cold Vorkuta is a city Russia doesn't need--but her people don't want to leave: "Vorkuta is ... the Soviet Union in miniature." 11:10

http://slate.msn.com/HeyWait/01-08-17/HeyWait.asp analysis of Israeli and Palestinian methods and tactics 10:58

http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20010820&s=stille Italy's "slow food" movement: globalisation? or not? 01:06

http://www.guardian.co.uk/saturday_review/story/0,3605,534812,
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reflections--why become a philosopher? (A.C. Grayling) 14:25

http://ftrain.com/moderate_sea_change.html "On Saturday, August 11, 2001, I have decided to turn 27 years old. ..." 22:07

http://www.linguafranca.com/print/0109/field_notes_flesh.html "Because Shakespeare's text does not provide an explicit answer, directors who adapt the play often ask themselves what happens next: Does Titania have sex with Bottom? ... When the director Stuart Canterbury was developing his recent film adaptation, he had no trouble deciding what to do about the Titania-Bottom sex question--they would have sex, lots of it." 15:39

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/14272 "Justice to J.D. Salinger"--long, can be skimmed (read the bits on cigarettes) 14:45

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/picturethis/classic8.shtml artful old-time crime-scene photographs 14:09