Ooh! Get the alligator and put a ticking clock in its belly!

Sure! Right after Gudanov builds me a play pirate ship for my backyard!

...Come to think of it, that would be pretty cool....

I don't know enough about black America to know if/why, when adjusted for income and education, internet usage would be less.

Most everyone I know is on the internet. The one guy who, a year ago, said "I don't have e-mail" has been hooked up. But I'm a big city girl, who hangs out with people who might as well have finished university (I can't think of a simple way to put that) if they haven't, and socialises a lot on the 'net.

So what do I know?

I'm fascinated by the stat that English-speaking Hispanics are online more than non-Hispanic blacks or whites. I wonder about the racial breakdown there.

Modern Bachelor Pads. I want there to be a cliché of a bachelorette pad. I wonder what it would look like.

Can't decide what to do for lunch. I brought lunch with, but I still want my time. Maybe sleep again.

Theo, I think it's your duty to buy those. The neighborhood has been classed way up lately, and classy is BORING.

The light up alligator makes me think about my ex-boss's (from two different jobs) new company, Animated Lighting.

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They have some cool stuff, but it doesn't come cheap.

Improvements also has a light-up praying mantis. If it was only 30 feet high, I'd definitely buy it.

Sorry about the frustration Allyson, although I have to admit to being a little freaked out about paying eight bucks for a hamburger.

Seriously? I mean, most places I go, a burger comes with fries, a little more for a salad. That seems totally reasonable to me.

When you guys hear the term "digital divide" who are you seeing on either side of the rift? Other than, obviously, those all up in technology and those who aren't? Who are the haves and who are the have-nots?

I don't see as racial more than finances and education. In Canada, there's been a lot of talk about the divide between urban and rural access to the internet, where remote and sparsely populated areas don't have the access to as many options or high speed options at all.

Seriously? I mean, most places I go, a burger comes with fries, a little more for a salad. That seems totally reasonable to me.

I was thinking just the burger. Still, it usually is around $6 with fries at a sit-down place.

Six bucks in Gud-land translates pretty favorably to eight in Allyson-land, I'd say. And for a celebratory (or whatever it was) lunch? People need to get over themselves.

I hate my thesis. FYI.

Jesse -- I still hate my thesis! And I agree -- $8.00 for a celebratory meal is not that much.

The headline of this story is a little misleading, and got me waaaay too excited: "Coming soon to a pocket near you: the pink quarter" [link]