In what Reuters says is Not a Joke, Microsoft has announced the world's first Internet loo, coming this summer in an outhouse that will tour the British summer music festival circuit. Given what often gets left fecally lying around outhouses, this offers the possibility for getting three bugs at once: bio virus, computer virus, and buggy Win software. Barry _____________________________________________________________________ Barry Wellman Professor of Sociology NetLab Director wellman at chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 "For a couple of old-timers, they're quick." Undergraduate, after losing 320-150 to the 1962 undefeated Lafayette College Bowl Team [quiz show] in a 40-year reunion match, April 2 2003. (B Wellman, team captain) _____________________________________________________________________