The other yous
Now that the telephone book has been all but replaced by the minutiae-rich Web, searching out, even stalking, the people who share one's name has become a common pastime. Bloggers muse about their multiple digital selves, known as Google twins or Googlegängers (a term that was the American Dialect Society's "most creative" word last year). (...) But while many people are familiar with Googlegängers, a fundamental question has gone unanswered: Why do so many feel a connection — be it kinship or competition — with utter strangers just because they share a name?

Social science, it turns out, has an answer. It is because human beings are unconsciously drawn to people and things that remind us of ourselves.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/10/us/10names.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

Sex? It's written all over your face
A person's attitude to sex might be written all over their face, according to a study of attractiveness. Psychologists also found that, when it comes to selecting relationships, heterosexual men and women are looking for entirely opposite things.

"What was interesting was the strength of the preference among men for women who were interested in short-term sex and the strength of the preference of the women for men not interested in short-term sex," said Lynda Boothroyd of Durham University, who led the study.
http://lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk/relationships/story/0,,2271864,00.html

20 Biggest Record Company Screw-Ups of All Time
The latest issue of Blender magazine made the list: From turning down the Beatles to stomping Napster— the most ill-advised, foolhardy and downright idiotic decisions ever made by The Man.
http://www.blender.com/20BiggestRecordCompanyScrewUps/articles/18696.aspx

http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSHAR95689220080409
A Canadian man who claims he was discriminated against as a pagan who practices a form of sadomasochism will get to take his complaint to a human rights tribunal.

http://www.mg.co.za/articledirect.aspx?articleid=336610&area=insight_tech
US state starts internet safety lessons for children following sexual abuse of kids. Students were warned about the permanence of what they put on the internet, and how information posted today can come back to haunt them when they're applying to colleges or looking for jobs. Some listened attentively; others slumped over their desks.

http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=336577&area=/breaking_news/other_news/
A German orchestra has dropped a composition from its programme after its members claimed the music was so loud that it gave them ear problems and headaches.