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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.

How completely fascinating. If you’ve ever picked up a National Geographic magazine, you probably remember a cover from 1985 of a girl with stunning green eyes, from a story about war in Afghanistan. Somehow National Geographic found her again.