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A woman in Florida was trampled by a herd of shoppers at Wal-Mart. In the 6 A.M. doorbuster she was pushed over in the rush to grab a $30 DVD player….

Rosanna Davison won the Miss America Beach Beauty contest. Rosanna is the daughter of musician Chris de Burgh. Well done Ireland!…

Mao Tse Tung handbook for guerilla fighters is still the basis for a lot of the ground fighting we see today in places like Iraq….

Ahmet Ekin of the University of Rochester has put together software that filters out less interesting parts of a soccer game and focuses on the perceived exciting moments. His Automatic Sports Video Analyzer will send soccer highlights to cell phones during the 2004 Olympics….

A new device is entering clinical trials that delivers an orgasm on demand through a spinal implant. Stuart Meloy is struggling to find volunteers for the program. Towards the end of the article it mentions that an orgasm is a reflex response, and people with spinal injuries can still orgasm. Interesting….

The Torrance Daily Breeze has a very interesting Home Depot Center scorecard. “The Galaxy will also make the first profit in its eight-year history, team officials confirmed Friday. The team turned last season?s $3.5 million loss at the Rose Bowl into a modest $150,000 profit.” Doug Hamilton should keep Sigi Schmid as head coach. It looks like your revenue worries are not his fault, and you need to get some quality Latinos in your starting 11, not your head coaching position. Carlos Ruiz is the top Latino player in MLS and he was the work of Schmid….

Amazon announced a deal with the British Library to index its entire collection of 2.55 million books. I visited the British Museum last year and the library was amazing. It will be very cool to see more of these works uniquely identified….

New site where you come up with the lyrics and each word is mapped to a clip in a music database. A new song is created with the clips taken from the word maps….

M.L.S. Making an Effort to Attract Hispanic Fans Some interesting stats in this New York Times article regarding Latinos and M.L.S. “In 2002, 30 percent of the people attending M.L.S. games were Hispanic. On the field, 20 percent of the players had Latino backgrounds.” Anschutz Entertainment Group owns part of the rights to the Mexican national team as well as the Libertadores Cup….

San Jose Mercury News on how Cisco, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, and Sun are moving away from typical office designs and into shared work spaces. In a month my company will change office locations. Better location but smaller, more cramped workspaces. The noise of shared work spaces bothers me, and while an office is a status symbol, it is also a very good way to escape the noise pollution and actually get some work done. When will there be noise shields for the cubicle farm?…