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In the past week, several news sources have run stories about a group of Hungarian builders that drank dry a barrel of rum, only to find a human body in it. Yesterday, MSNBC ran this correction, stating that the story they originally ran, based on a Reuters story, was untrue. Apparently, once the story began to circulate, people recognized it for the urban legend it was. Snopes has several variations on the theme of people (and animals) being pickled in barrels of booze. The current story claimed that the man's body had been stashed in the Jamaican barrel by his wife in an attempt to avoid the cost and paperwork of actually shipping her husband's body home properly.

If you're new to an area, or simply looking to find new, independent cafés in your town, Delocator.net might be use to you. Enter a zip code and Delocator will search listings of over 5,000 non-corporate cafés within a radius of up to 20 miles. Currently the listings are for the U.S. and Canada. Listings are based on entries from readers, so the number of coffee shops tracked by Delocator is constantly growing. Results include contact info, website links and brief descriptions. Spot-checking a few zip codes in my area, Delocator returned a pretty complete list of the coffee shops I know to be in operation. Also listed in the results are locations for a certain other coffee shop, just in case you were wondering.