I don't understand why this is a problem. Maybe I'm cold, but I have no problem with not accepting certain people as friends. It's easy. If it's work related, accepting someone as a friend really isn't a big deal. But someone you haven't seen from grade school that you never liked? Why can't you say no to that? I agree that what will finally kill facebook is the insanity of the applications. I ignore every single offer to add superpoke et al. Facebook can be fun, mainly to be nosy, I guess. But beyond that, it just doesn't seem that important to get worked up over. Someone who you don't like wants to be your friend? Say no.

Liquis beat me to it (buy several hours): it's hard to sell a million dollar stolen painting. $15000 plus a percentage is a good deal. I'm not sure a "finder's fee" really applies here, since she wasn't actively looking for anything. She stumbled across $15000. Sounds like dumb luck. I should be so lucky.

I dunno. Not necessarily impractical. They lean, you stick books in them. That seems to be it. Now, if you have cats, that's a whole different story. I can see either of mine taking a leap onto these and sort of create a reverse domino effect (if that makes any sense).

The idea was clearly stolen from this:

http://www.leftfield.org/~scott/misc/toilet.htm

(If you've ever been to Germany, you know).