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I’m liking MetaFilter more and more. Today they posted a link to a story about ‘Dear Abby’ turning in a man who confessed an attraction to child pornography. The related MeFi discusson has raised some extremely interesting points, touching on some of the many societal and cultural variables surrounding ‘age of consent’ (highlights being here, here, and here).

The entire text of the 1911 Encyclopedia Brittanica has been scanned and placed online.

From the “this is news?” department: Study shows teenage girls sexually harassed on the Internet.

The articles I linked to about Googlebombing on the 5th have inspired a third followup article worth reading: The Tripping Blog – How Weblogs can turn an idea into an epidemic.

On the internet, nobody knows you’re Ravi Desai (with apologies to Peter Steiner).

There’s a very interesting article on Slate talking about Arthur Andersen’s disappearing act, as the accounting firm enters negotiations investigating being absorbed by other major accounting firms (disclaimer — I am presently employed by Todays Office Staffing, a temp agency who contracts me to Xerox, who has me running the print shop for Arthur Andersen‘s Seattle office — however, I learn more about the current Enron/Andersen scandal from papers and the ‘net than I do from the office).

My birthday is within the first 100 million digits of Π (specifically, 1,040,331 digits in [or 11,057 digits in, if I use the non-zero-padded version of my birthday 5373]). So is my current phone number, sans area code (49,168,544 digits in). My social security number isn’t, though. Bummer.

Just in case Infocom making Tetris wasn’t weird enough, here’s one weirder — text-based Pong!

Why I trust my government to keep me safe: On Monday, the INS approved student visas for two of the 9/11 airplane hijackers.