For somebody like me who has just been introduced to the wonders of ebay, (I signed up already but still figuring out the trick), it's entertaining to read of some articles that refer to it as an ultimate source of everything anyone needs...take this for example; this is part of Yahoo's news feature today:

"The Rumor: If you dug a hole straight through the Earth, you would probably make it to China.
The Truth: "It depends on where you start out," says author Michael Goodchild. "If you dug through the center of the Earth, you would emerge at a point opposite to where you started," he says. "Most of the time, if you started from land, you would end in water. But you would end up in China if you started digging in northern Chile." Oh yeah, there is one more little catch. Says Goodchild, "You would need a machine that could form a tunnel through liquid metal at a temperature of around 5,000 degrees." Um, try eBay?"

bwahahaha, funny eh? :)