Great stuff! BoingBoing.net was doing a lot of entries on the Japanes (international?) fascination with earwax. Below are some of the search results at that site if you type in "ear wax" as th search term. http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=ear+wax&btnG=Search+Boing+Boing&domains=boingboing.net&sitesearch=boingboing.net
http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=ear+wax&btnG=Search+Boing+Boing&domains=boingboing.net&sitesearch=boingboing.net