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BBC has a list of 50 places to see before you die. The Grand Canyon is #1. I live in San Francisco, #36 on the list. Definitely a lot of interesting ideas….

Not sure whose turn it is to tickle? A Dutch company has the answer. A pinball with a nylon fringe hovers an inch or two above you and a computer creates a 3D map of your skin for optimal tickling….

SmartMoney.com profiles their Hot Jobs for 2004. “According to a recent Monster.com survey, 82% of Americans are dissatisfied with their jobs.” There are a lot of people feeling trapped in their jobs right now. Some escaped to a M.B.A. or law program, hoping things would improve by the time they got back. Those graduates are coming back, as well as a stagnating group who are happy just to have a job. It will be difficult to explain to a new employer why you have been working in a less than ideal job for the past few years, whether it is…

500 Songs That Shaped Rock…

John Locke : “I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts” Ah yes, if only women followed this thought….

Sigi Schmid has been supposedly fired and is meeting with the Dallas Burn today about a new job. Jurgen Klinsmann as new coach? When has a top quality player other than Franz Beckenbauer been a good coach? I was not impressed with Klinsmann’s NSCAA speech on coaching strikers, but Jurgen is a nice guy and has been an assistant with the Galaxy for a few years now….

Pearl Jam, on Its Own, Seizes the Moment and Sells CD on the Web. I didn’t even know about this single! PearlJam.com was one of the first sites I know to have iTunes links for its discography. They really need to get full lyrics on their site….

Berklee Shares is a collection of free course lessons from the Berklee College of Music. Movies, MP3s, and PDFs to help you learn bass, brass, DJ, drums, guitar, keyboards, voice, and winds. They even have lyrics analysis….

Microsoft released the Office 2003 XML Reference Schemas today. WordprocessingML is out now and SpreadsheetML and FormTemplateSchemas will be available on December 5. Should make OpenOffice projects a lot easier! I currently use Apache Jakarta POI to generate Excel documents….