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links for 2007-01-08

• The Hot and the Not | washingtonpost.com
  Will those gleaming stainless appliances help sell your home? How about that spiral staircase? Hmmm. Maybe hardwood floors, installed throughout the house, would be a better bet for resale value.
  (tags: realestate home)
• M-LAW’s Wacky Warning Labels
  A warning label on a washing machine at a laundromat that warns, “Do not put any person in this washer” has been chosen as the nation’s wackiest warning label in M-LAW’s annual Wacky Warning Label Contest.
  (tags: humor law appliances via:slashdot)
• Social Network Fatigue Coming? | Slashdot
  (tags: socialnetwork community identity business)
• Solemn Duty In Section 60 | washingtonpost.com
  Every fourth Tuesday of the month, Jane Newman, an Army Arlington Lady, spends the day at Arlington National Cemetery, standing graveside, hand over heart, at up to six funerals a day.
  (tags: arlingtonva military death iraq war washingtondc)