crashed. They lost interest when they found out I was white. But the thing about that experience that was most reassuring was that some producers told me, by listening to my demo tapes, that they thought I was black.

"If distributing code is illegal,

March 18, 2001

In the summer of 1949,

In the summer of 1949, as the story goes, inveterate gambler Nicholas "Nick the Greek" Dandolos approached Benny Binion with an unusual request-to challenge the best in a high-stakes poker marathon. Binion agreed to set up a match between Dandolos and the legendary Johnny Moss, with the stipulation that the game be played in public view.

During the course of the marathon, which lasted five months with breaks only for sleep, the two men played every form of poker imaginable. Mossa fraternity chartered by Congress, the IORM and its ladies auxiliary, The Degree of Pocahontas, believes in

"Love and Respect of the American Flag, Creating and inspiring a greater love for the United States of America, and Perpetuating the beautiful legends and traditions of a vanishing race and the keeping alive of its customs, ceremonies, and philosophies."

They do this in part by maintaining a museum that proudly boasts possession of a watercolor by Adolf Hitler and a peaceblanket of Apache Chief Geronimo and by giving to the order's selected charity, the Alzheimer's Association.

March 16, 2001

Most commentators characterize this mushroom

Most commentators characterize this mushroom ominously as "toxic" or "poisonous". Somewhat more lightheartedly, Aurora relates the apocryphal tale of the elderly woman who accidentally consumed G. spectabilis. She laughed and cried