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What the World Thinks in 2002 How Global Publics View: Their Lives, Their Countries, The World, America (90 pages PDF with an introduction by Madeleine Albright) (via Daypop)

Daily Californian: The SEX issue

Well kids, hate to break it to ya, but sexual ignorance still runs rampant. And who is shocked? It was only eight years ago that the Surgeon General was forced to resign for encouraging discussion about masturbation in sex education.
Since 1996, the federal government has spent over a quarter of a billion dollars on Abstinence-Only-Until-Marriage education which teaches that abstinence until marriage is the expected standard for all people.

Give at least a read to the Good Vibrations introduction. That and the Coit Tower are a must-seen in SF.

You are where you live: check your marketing profile using your ZipCode (via Freedom To Tinker)

Zip 84400 was not found in our database

. Neither was 75013.

Is Japan faking it? or what if the Japan economical crisis wasn't that much of a crisis ? (via China Hand)

Cambodia's comics industry

War Without End Paradox travels from Hanoi to Honolulu (via the great Camnews)

You might have read the Calvin Coolidge quote: After all, the chief business of the American people is business. Now read the exact one: the story of a misquote The Business of America is Business?

We make no concealment of the fact that we want wealth, but there are many other things that we want very much more. We want peace and honor, and that charity which is so strong an element of all civilization. The chief ideal of the American people is idealism. I cannot repeat too often that America is a nation of idealists. That is the only motive to which they ever give any strong and lasting reaction.

Tiny C Compiler, the Smallest Linux C Compiler

The Smalltalk Cookbook collectively being written, using a Wiki. Plus one more candidate for the aggregator: Mark Watson's Blog, about Smalltalk and other stuffs.

Machine Translation: an Introductory Guide, the online book (in PDF)

One good reason to be in Toronto on March 10, 2003: the Cowboy Junkies are having a concert at Trinity St. Paul's Church, again. Yesm, The Trinity Session is one of my favorite albums. And the perfect Xmas gift: A Cowboy junkie DVD/CD bundle