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A cream cracker is a dry, crunchy biscuit which is popular in the United Kingdom. It has a square shape, with edges of around 7cm and a thickness of a few millimetres, and is light brown in colour. Cream crackers are usually sold in an orange packet. This is because Jacob's Cream Crackers, by far the most well recognised brand, have used an orange packet for over a century, and British trademark laws are not quite absurd enough to allow one to trademark a colour.

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Uric acid is a waste product from the digestion process, and an excess of it is responsible for gout and kidney stones. The liver digests purines into uric acid, and the kidneys metabolise uric acid into urea, which is excreted in urine.

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Well, it seems that at least in the English speaking-world and in its sphere of influence, America is a country. This means that America is a country according to pretty much almost everyone in the world. But America certainly didn't start out being a country, and there are parts of America, such as the rest of America (meaning, mostly, Latin America, occasionally Canada too) who contest this view and hold that America is a continent, and not just one country. Being fully bicultural myself, it...

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So, having heard the request many many times, I finally conceived a sane way of generating random nodeshells, and thus created a superdoc to do just that: behold, the creatively titled Random nodeshells.

In celebration of this storied occasion, all noders submitting nodeshell rescues by 23:59:59 Thursday (server time) will receive a 10XP bonus from kthejoker. (Only nodeshells created before Thursday will be considered "rescued.") Please /msg me with all applications.

Happy noding!

DejaMorgana is hosting "The First Practically Annual Everything, Kansas Quest and Memorial Potluck" quest in honor of both Everything, Kansas and our own thriving community here at E2. Come contribute some knowledge on microsocieties, living off the grid, roughing it, toughing it, and the interesting road to self-sufficiency.

Deadline is May 19, and the usual blessings, XP, and trinkets are in order. Happy noding!

Just in time for your favorite pagan rebirth ritual based on a lunar calendar: a new Quest! All praise, blame, bulls of excommunication, and quest entries to haze.

Howdy, everyone. As you all know, E2's front page has essentially remained untouched since 1999. There have been a few minor additions here and there, but the general structure has remained. Many people have complained that the site's front page is confusing, intimidating, overly busy, and not particularly aesthetic.

As a result, the administration has undertaken an effort to revamp the front page, both for the 21st century Internet, and for a newer, less internalized group of noders. Our preliminary results can be found at

Everything2.1 Front Page - Guest and Everything2.1 Front Page - Noder

One of the first things to note is that there is a different page for guests than for noders. In the future, we may eliminate nodelets entirely from the guests' front page, or at the least reduce them to only the most essential nodelets (Epicenter, New Writeups, and a revised Vitals) of navigation and assistance.

Secondly, there are a lot of new sections on the page, sections which reflect some new conceptions and ideas at the site, but have not necessarily been fully fleshed out. These sections are subject to change at any time; these front pages are as much about potential as they are about anything else.

We are seeking feedback from all users on these new pages, in terms of design, content, and language. Please send all feedback to me, kthejoker, either via /msg or to kthejoker at everything2.spamfree.com. I would prefer it if you separated out any comments on the pages listed above from any ideas on the front pages in general.

Also, feel free to design your own front pages! Send me screenshots, links, ideas, back-of-the-napkin drawings, whatever! We will be having a contest soon to redesign the graphics of the front page. More to be announced soon. In the meantime, please take the time to look at these changes, comment on them, and get involved in this process. We want to make this an e2 that everyone can get behind. Thanks a lot, and take care.

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