Flutterby™! :

A couple of neat articles in Salon today, Bill Wasik gives directions to a Silicon Valley company (I proposed that he should write a follow-up describing how to get to a north bay company. It'd be something like the opening sequence to "Get Smart".) And Mary Roach tackles scents and pheremones:

if there exists a substance that can counteract the repellent effects of cologne or aftershave, it is powerful stuff indeed. And I do not speak from personal taste alone. In a study conducted by Al Hirsch, director of the Smell and Taste Treatment and Research Foundation in Chicago, the smell of men's cologne reduced vaginal blood flow by 1 percent.