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I like to comment on things I quote, but what could one possibly add to this paragraph from the NYT? “Toilet jet sprays, which sometimes confuse foreign visitors with disastrous results, are now in nearly half of Japanese homes, a rate higher than that of personal computers.”

The NYT reports on Korean teens spending all their time on broadband gaming (instead of wholesome sex, at least according to the subtext of the opening paragraphs):

More than half of all Korean households have high-speed Internet connections — compared with fewer than 10 percent in the United States — and the exploding Web culture has driven economic growth and spawned civic movements that have powerfully affected everything from politics to consumer culture.

Promising news for Pedestal Networks. The story also includes a great, uncredited Timothy Leary homage: “Critics say the burgeoning industry is creating millions of zombified addicts who are turning on and tuning into computer games, and dropping out of school and traditional group activities, becoming uncommunicative and even violent because of the electronic games they play.”

Two Kuwaiti gunmen were killed after attacking a marine training exercise near Kuwait City. Call me unoriginal, but if I were a terrorist, I would think attacking marines in their barracks (e.g., Beirut and Saudi Arabia) or onboard a ship that thought it had reached a safe harbor (the Cole) would make a lot more sense then attacking armed soldiers on a training exercise.