Spotted on Yahoo! News:

Teens accused of making ostrich impotent

Overheard by someone on the WELL:

Let me get this straight. My father is trying to die, I’m sitting in the critical care unit, and you’re fucking calling me up to tell me Anna Nicole Smith died?

From Sky News:

A hospital seeking a cheap alternative to costly fake breasts has begun knitting its own.

An article in Saturday’s Chicago Tribune, about an unusual case of amnesia, begins:

Joe Bieger walked out his front door with his two dogs one morning last fall a beloved husband, father, grandfather and assistant high school athletic director at a Catholic school. Minutes later, all of that would seemingly be wiped from his brain’s hard drive.

Apple’s home page for its .mac service has a list of what this service is supposed to let you do. Of course, it’s only natural that they want to hype the benefits, but I think maybe they’re going a bit far:

Publish in One Click with iWeb
Photocast with iPhoto
Exchange Files from Anywhere
Stay in Sync
Communicate the Way You Want
Back Up Your Life
Bring Groups Together

I’m a satisfied user of .mac, don’t get me wrong. But however much I may regret some things I’ve done and not done, I really don’t think .mac is going to let me back up my life.

Second sentence from an article in this week’s New Yorker about a Denver high school:

Although he was quiet by nature, he clanked when he walked.

Reported on the WELL, from an item on acupuncture and migraines in the December 2006 issue of Common Ground:

Migraines affect some 6 percent of men and 18 percent of women in the U.S., or 24 percent of the population.