] It’s 180 square feet of pure parking paradise in a city
] where open spaces are as common as cactus. All yours for
] $160,000.

Value of Boston parking spots out of control

] One Slightly Used Size 12 Wedding Gown. Only worn twice:
] Once at the wedding and once for these pictures.

Another eBay ad phenominon

eBay item 4146756343 (Ends Apr-28-04 15:37:01 PDT) - SIZE 12 WEDDING DRESS/GOWN NO RESERVE

] "Power lines were for electricity. Power lines can be
] used for broadband technology. So the technical standards
] need to be changed to encourage that," Bush said

Which... yeah, you go Mr. Politician. Because if you say it should be done, clearly the technology has stood still poised for your request.

Thankfully, he still can't handle those odd numbered offset counting bits...
] The U.S. ranked 10th in the world for high-speed,
] broadband Internet access, "10 spots too low, as far as
] I'm concerned," Bush said, "that's not good enough for
] America."
We'll be number 0! Yay!

Latest Forex News - FXstreet.com

] A Mexican man who got drunk, fell asleep on railroad
] tracks and was run over by a train slept through the
] entire episode and escaped unharmed, local officials said
] on Friday.

Yahoo! News - Drunk Run Over by Train, Lives

] "Pittsburgh is a city of lights for all the wrong
] reasons," Fink told about 20 people this morning at 8:30.
] "Standing on Troy Hill, you would think the steel mills
] are still going. The amount of it that's emanating out of
] Pittsburgh is absolutely phenomenal."

First, read the article because of the prospect of Pittsburgh with giant frickin laser beams.

But then I really like the direction it goes regarding light pollution. Light pollution issues /really/ bother me. It trips the aesthetic issues, as well as the little engineer going LOOK AT THE RAW INEFFICIENCIES ALL AROUND US. I would love to see Pittsburgh dark enough at night to see the stars... and the Giant Frickin Laser Beams

Three rivers may be a point of light

] (one of Joseph Schumpter key theories is that all things
] being equal, periods of revolutionary technological
] change are by necessity deflationary.)

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Joseph Schumpter wrote a two volume book, Business Cycles.

Revolutionary Technological Change

] In 2003, a typical home in Hawaii cost 6.50 times the
] annual family income of its occupants, versus 8.08 in San
] Francisco and 8.05 in New York City and some of its
] suburbs. Hawaii's current number -- 7.08 -- isn't all
] that far from the peak of 7.86, hit in 1991

Begin my links to the state of housing...

StockTalk: The Residential Real Estate Crash Index (#19777/19802)

] Many companies are quickly coming to realize this, as you
] can see from the impressive customer list on MySQL's
] website. I'm sure that most readers have used the Yahoo!
] (Nasdaq: YHOO) Finance site on many occasions (like
] perhaps this one), but would probably be surprised to
] learn that even Yahoo!'s massive source of data is fed
] from MySQL databases.

Things I did not know.

Fool.com: MySQL Makes Waves [Motley Fool Take] April 23, 2004

] BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- People who wear low-slung pants
] that expose skin or "intimate clothing" would face a fine
] of up to $500 and possible jail time under a bill filed
] by a Jefferson Parish lawmaker.
]
] State Rep. Derrick Shepherd said he filed the bill
] because he was tired of catching glimpses of boxer shorts
] and G-strings over the lowered belt lines of young
] adults.

It is a good thing Fay is getting her trip to Lousiana today, not when this passes. And that Mary got out of there. Because I know that life for them would not be worth living without lowcut pants.

Salon.com Life | Louisiana may ban low-slung pants

Cleaning, eh?

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