June 17, 2004
The history of Ikea. Most interesting fact: 10% of Europeans alive today were conceived in an Ikea bed.
June 10, 2004
This is very cool: a Google News visualisation allowing you to easily see the stories of the day in terms of relative coverage.
June 08, 2004
Lawyers Decided Bans on Torture Didn't Bind Bush. (Link points to the MeFi thread pointing to the NYT story, because the latter requires registration.)
Aww, bless those aliens. They just want to halt a decline in the skylark population.
June 03, 2004
"Politicians: You're The Blame!" ... A laughable grass roots website, but they're trying hard, bless them.
June 01, 2004
Via Neil Gaiman: the low carbohydrate potato. The article also has a round-up of other crazy low-carb food.
May 28, 2004
There's a new UK-US Extradition Treaty in town, which appears to make it rather too easy for people to be extradited to the US - and therefore the death penalty. Not good.
"When I talked to the president, he was loaded." That wacky Nixon.
May 26, 2004
Area 51 hackers dig up trouble. I've been to Rachel, NV; the surveillance isn't at all subtle. Helicopters watch you and there's an endless patrol of white SUVs.
Big Noise
If you're going to pay to download music, you might as well use Oxfam's service and make the world a better place while you feed the RIAA.May 25, 2004
I chased you for 12 years around the world, and I still can't find you. Sweet, and yet at the same time, frightening and psychotic.
How We Blog
A rather detailed Blog Software Breakdown; useful for anyone disillusioned by MT 3.0, or interested in developing their own individual system.May 24, 2004
A reversal of soldiers' fortunes - not a story to give you faith in the American people.
Kofi Annan has had a bounty put on his head. (Side question: is Ben Hammersley losing his edge?)
The Draft comes ever closer to reality. Now America can force people to die for it! Hooray for democracy.
May 22, 2004
A heartwarming story about a man and his daughter; faced with homelessness they camped out, undiscovered, in a national park for four years. Amazing, inspirational stuff.
May 20, 2004
Making Light: Bad advice on cover letters. For my reference later. (Possibly much later, more's the pity.)
May 10, 2004
Office Attachments - The best of the web circulated by you. Yahoo jumps on the hitherto-forgotten "crap websites" bandwagon.
May 05, 2004
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April 23, 2004
Open source voting
An open source electronic voting system, complete with paper trail. A world of good, hopefully.April 20, 2004
The CEO of McDonald's has died of a heart attack. I ain't saying nothing.
April 15, 2004
A9.com >Amazon's new web search engine. Looks no better or worse than any other search engine.
April 14, 2004
Wired News: Robots May Fight for the Army. The future, unfortunately, is now.
April 12, 2004
Mobile phones 'harm blood cells'. Yet another reason to be wary of man's new best friend.
Music downloads - currently at around 99 cents a song - may be made more expensive if the RIAA has its way. Aside from five finger downloads, of course.
April 08, 2004
Stars in their eyes - eyeball jewelry is apparently a new Dutch fashion trend. Yuck.
The best portrait of President Bush, ever. Just a tiny subset of the people whose deaths he's responsible for.