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This month: 33 entries.

http://www.royal.gov.uk/faq/passport.htm "As a British Passport is issued in the name of Her Majesty, it is unnecessary for The Queen to possess one." 17:38

http://chronicle.com/free/2001/09/2001092601t.htm British universities: selling space on screen savers 11:35

http://slate.msn.com/diary/01-09-24/diary.asp?iMsg=1 diary of Lucas Miller, NYPD detective 09:52

http://slate.msn.com/foreigners/entries/01-05-01_105417.asp Afghanistan's Northern Alliance, etc. Interesting last paragraph. 23:31

http://gladwell.com/2001/2001_08_10_a_drug.htm drugs in sport--outlook not good 12:19

http://www.snopes.com/info/rumors.htm WTC rumors debunked/bunked 15:27

http://prorev.com/bush2.htm a history of the Bush family--how much of this is true? 10:56

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4257777,
00.html
on organised religion: Richard Dawkins--very unbecomingly--does his nut ("... testosterone-sodden young men too unattractive to get a woman in this world might be desperate enough to go for 72 private virgins in the next ...") 14:06

http://tobaccofreekids.org/adgallery/display.php3?ID=18 "pleasure to burn": only place I could find this ad... 11:16

http://www.poynter.org/Terrorism/gallery/wedgallery.htm front pages of lots and lots of newspapers--moving 10:02

http://slate.msn.com/framegame/entries/01-09-11_115230.asp "At 8 a.m., they had no explosives or delivery vehicles. By 9 a.m., they had both. Where did they get them? From us." 14:09

http://slate.msn.com/code/chatterbox/chatterbox.asp?Show=9/
11/2001&idMessage=8268
"In What Sense Are Terrorists Cowards?"--they're not, yes, but you're going to get slapped for it... 14:08

http://www.aopa.org/images/homepage/ual175_aal11.gif animated GIF showing WTC planes's flight paths 14:05

http://www.fbi.gov/mostwant/topten/fugitives/rosser.htm "Rosser was last known to be traveling through Europe on an 'Apollo' brand, red moped with a piano attached to it." A piano? 17:33

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/02/magazine/02FRANZEN.html?
pagewanted=all
Jonathan Franzen promised to write a book that, according to the journalist, "had it all, a novel that was intimate, socially engaged and compelling." The "related articles" box (under his picture) has a link to the first chapter. I think it not very good. 13:44

http://lalalalela.squirming.net/dating.html "How Not To Get The Girl: Hare-Brained Schemes That Don't Work" 12:47