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Potpourri

A “noncommercial hearse”? That’s one way to save money on vehicle registration.
A defense if you’re sued by RIAA?
Bill would require federally-funded libraries and schools to block social networking websites. Isn’t that basically why kids today use the Internet?
The world’s 100 most valuable brands.
An overlooked (by history) sleeping sickness epidemic affected over a million people between 1916 and 1928.
President Bush on the conflict in Lebanon:

My goal is exactly what I said it was, and that is to hopefully end this as quickly as possible, and at the same time, making sure there’s a lasting peace — not a fake peace, not a fake, you know, kind of circumstances that make us all feel better, and then, sure enough, the problem arises again.

Uh, right. We have no interest in an artificial, feel-good peace. Which explains all the hoopla the administration made regarding the Iraqi elections, since those have undoubtedly ushered in permanent stability.