3. March, 2003 - and now, in other news

The Mill City Museum won’t be opening until September 13th, but they’ve got their website up and running already so you can find out what’s up. That’s quite a change from even a few years ago, when a project like this probably wouldn’t have a website until months after the museum had opened.
Guidebook author hits oddity bonanza in Minnesota, including goodies like the world’s largest otter (in Fergus Falls), the Spam museum (in Austin), and the sandpaper museum (in Two Harbors). Yeah, there’s plenty of goofy stuff here in MN. [strib]
For the first time ever, The America's Cup has been won by a country without a coastline (Switzerland). [fark!]
The Anti-Bloggies for 2003 have begun! The only award that matters! Well, except for all the others. [davezilla]
Stavros the Wonderchicken spews out Dirt Stick Stone. He’s talking about the latest attempt at viral marketing, and in this case, it’ll probably get the product some publicity. But in the long run, it will help identify the shills in the blogging world, and people can choose to pay attention to them or not. [emptybottle]
Hey, the Southeast Angle now has their stories (well last month’s stories) online, and apparently has been doing this since April last year. I found out about it by reading the paper version. Once again, I wonder why I was not informed.