Contrary to a myth, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid didn't rob a bank in Winnemucca: "On September 19, 1900 legendary desperado Butch Cassidy, the Sundance Kid and heir Wild Bunch gang robbed the First National Bank of Winnemucca of $32,640 worth of gold coins... But the reality is Cassidy never graced Winnemucca."

Report Linking Anthrax and Hijackers Is Investigated: "The two men identified themselves as pilots when they came to the emergency room of Holy Cross Hospital in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., last June. One had an ugly, dark lesion on his leg that he said he developed after bumping into a suitcase two months earlier. Dr. Christos Tsonas thought the injury was curious, but he cleaned it, prescribed an antibiotic for infection and sent the men away with hardly another thought."

If you have the Google Toolbar, you can now turn on Google Compute: "Google is pleased to introduce Google Compute, a new feature for the Google Toolbar. By turning on this feature, you allow your computer to work on complex scientific problems when it would otherwise be idle. The work it does is automatically sent via the Internet to researchers who combine it with information sent by thousands of other users."

Google is hiring: "Google isn't perfect. Click here to change that."

No one writes to the currator: "Ancizar Vergara is curator of the house where Colombia's acclaimed Nobel-winning writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born 75 years ago this month and which is now a museum. From his small, cheerless office, [he] watches the dusty almond trees lining a quiet back street. It is past noon on a bright, sultry day and the mail has not arrived. Declared a national monument after Garcia Marquez won the Nobel in 1982, the museum receives few visitors and survives mainly on charity. Vergara says he can't remember when he last received his monthly paycheck of $193 from the government. After years of isolation, Vergara is beginning to seem like one of Garcia Marquez's characters -- in particular, the retired officer in the novella "No One Writes to the Colonel" who waits 15 years for a pension check."

How much data is there in a byte, kilobyte, megabyte, gigabyte, terabyte, petabyte, exabyte, zettabyte or yottabyte? "Whenever we discuss quantities of data, we tend to do it in the abstract. We speak of a kilobyte, or a megabyte or a gigabyte without really knowing what it represents."

FindArticles.com: "FindArticles goes where most search engines can't, providing full text access to thousands of articles, many of which aren't freely available elsewhere on the web. FindArticles is a partnership between LookSmart, which provides the search infrastructure, and the Gale Group, which provides the published editorial content. It contains articles dating back to 1998 from more than 300 magazines and journals."

Signs you might be a Nevadan: "The 2000 Census tells us only 22 percent of Nevada's nearly 2 million residents are natives. You might be a Nevadan if..."

Mars base in Utah: "The red, green and blue Martian flag has been firmly planted in the unearthly soil of Wayne County, Utah. The first team of astronauts, a heartening blend of nationalities, has struggled into space suits, pushed back the heavy door on the air lock, and ventured forth into a new world. It's not quite Mars, but it sure looks like it."

The Wrong Way to Remember Sept. 11: "Relieving people of work does not necessarily move their thoughts in a desired direction. The talk on Labor Day is of barbecues, not the victories won when workers unite. Few people caught up in Memorial Day traffic bestir themselves to remember the Union's Civil War dead. Vacation days lend themselves less to sentiment than to pragmatism. It seems inevitable that, following the model of the birthdays of our first and 16th presidents, this new holiday would soon fall not on Sept. 11 but on the closest Monday to it."