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14627 ª February 9 12:29 AM. Ask and you shall receive. Move over, Amazon Honor System! Now you can sign up for a one-click service that lets visitors to your Web site donate something you’ll really appreciate: oral sex. Best of all, they don’t keep a percentage of your donations like Amazon and PayPal do. [MetaFilter]

Here’s another one:

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This uses MySQL to report the users currently connected to my site.

U.S. patent number 6315213, filed on November 13, is described as a method of modifying weather and should concern the public. [Adam Curry: CurryDotCom]

You can see the actual patent here

MSNBC: Tracking spam to the source. We’ve never heard of most of the companies sending the e-mails, and many of the offers are for products and services we don’t need. Almost all end up in the electronic trash can moments after we read the subject line. Still, we’re curious. Who is sending this stuff? [Tomalak’s Realm]

14605 ª February 8 10:09 AM. Eat a candy bar – go to Jail. An update on a previous Mefi thread: Hemp foods are now illegal as per new DEA rules that took effect this Monday, 02/06. (PDF version is available as well.)

This Canada study shows that it would take the consumption of a hell of a lot of Hemp products to reach the same THC levels as Marijuana. [MetaFilter]

14606 ª February 8 10:37 AM. Town passes law banning nudity… … but more notable is the section of the law banning erections in males over 10 years old. Why was a law like this needed? (link via Obscure Store) [MetaFilter]

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14602 ª February 8 8:05 AM. The Kansas State Court of Appeals has upheld a ruling sentencing an 18-year-old man to 17 years in prison. His crime was performing consensual fellatio on a 15-year-old boy. Had this been a heterosexual act, his sentence would have been a year and three months maximum. [MetaFilter]

Morons in the News: Please Don’t Make Us Use Computers!!. A Tennessee school is asking lawmakers to exempt their students from receiving computer training as required for graduation, as computers are the work of the dev-vill… [Morons Dot Org]

I see there are still people living in the dark ages

I’m now wireless. I installed an Airport card in my G3 minitower, so I won’t have to run Ethernet cables in my new home.

I got an envelope from Senegal in the mail today. When I opened it, it was Youssou N’dour’s new CD, “Ba Tey”. I’m listening to it now 🙂