"British scientists were honoured for research that found ostriches became
more amorous with each other when a human was around. In fact, ostriches
eventually started putting the moves on humans."
this is true of manatees also.  you don't want to know.
From: fork-admin@xent.com [mailto:fork-admin@xent.com]On Behalf Of Carey
Subject: Headline - Navel gazing wins an Ig Nobel
Carey wants you to know about a story on www.theage.com.au
Ah the Ig Nobels, always worth a read :)  If only they had a cat-mood

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Re: Economist: Internet models, viral spread, social diseases
From fork-admin@xent.com  Sat Oct  5 12:39:23 2002

You plus 1 degree of separation is a new you.
All this stuff about scale-free Internets, viruses,
sex, and money is silly.  Scale-free statistically
indistinguishable models really means Internet-Scale
as rediscovered by social networks people.
> Research has shown that the network of human sexual partners
I tend to prefer the Harvard Business Review
to the Economist as they tend to spend less
time writing about who's sleeping with whom and
> Not exactly new bits, but I enjoyed seeing The Economist
> pick up on the similarity between computer and social

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