Soyez realiste, demandez l'impossible
A handheld TMS device for migraines
Conspiracy theories.. don't you just love 'em
The US administration further eroding civil liberties with a retrospective immunity to telecommunications companies that cooperated in five years of illegal eavesdropping.
This would seem to be a blatantly racist policy proposal.
Offline email for firefox under development
Washington Post article on the declassified report into Saddam Hussein's links to Al-Quaeda; which basically reveals there were no links. The influence of Al-Quaeda figures like Abu Musab al-Zarqawi only arising following the coalition conquest.
An interesting graphical psephological overview of the USA.
A concise listing of some essential software - mostly Windows based. Some freeware, others fully open source.
British troops captured by Iran in disputed waters - Python Terry Jones comments:
"And what's all this about allowing the captives to write letters home saying they are all right? It's time the Iranians fell into line with the rest of the civilised world: they should allow their captives the privacy of solitary confinement. That's one of the many privileges the US grants to its captives in Guantanamo Bay.
No hoods. No electric shocks. No beatings. These Iranians clearly are a very uncivilised bunch""
Interesting research with UK census data allows you to map the distribution of family names over time.
January 2007 issue of the Socialist Party journal.
I only wish that capitalism needed a propaganda rag to promote it - this outfit seems to be brandishing a libertarian worldview that despises any governmental regulation of the market.
Kipling's classic poem - always seemed a tad pompous to me.
Inside view of google's adsense program. As someone who dislikes advertising - though respects the way google does things openly - it's an interesting insight into how they are moving.
Good overview of the international agriculture business, subsidies and the inequalities they generate
Generally I don't like stumbling and getting video - so have that disabled in my preferences.
But sometimes I *do* want to stumble videos and this is a great way to get the best of both worlds.
A site where stats trends can be shared and analysed in collaboration with other stats nerds
Best site that I've found for reviews of digital cameras.
Can be useful but user reviews can be nonsense (commenting on models before they are released).
There's always an irony finding gems like this on MurdochSpace...