ConnectNet.org An index in the US organized by ZIP code of where you can get free Internet access and/or training. There is an attempt at a similar service here in the UK – the UK Online Centres site but the search engine doesn’t work properly yet and the database needs quite a bit of tidying.

Turns out Michael Lewis has written more about child Internet imposters to promote his book. There is an adapted extract of his profile of a 15-year-old stock manipulator and a chance to talk with both him and the make-believe legal expert on the New York Times site. There’s also an interview with the author at Salon.loans absoluteadvice uk home loan improvementagriculture farm loansamerican financial loans instution studentfor advantage va loansloan sale for $15000adverse loan personal creditloans car ohio in 0 Mapsex amanda fanfics bynesporn alexis lovea cup breasts teenteenie amateur videostamil sex actressadult porn amateuramature college sexvideo home sex amatuer Map

Felix Dennis profiled… I worked for this man’s company for two years – I dread to think I helped to keep this guy in crack cocaine or pay to maintain his harem of mistresses.

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Birds feel the rub Nature gets down and dirty with what I am sure is at least a partially tongue write-up of research into birds with a false phallus. The first known orgasm in the bird world… and there is real video red-billed buffalo weaver action!

P2PQ – an interesting open source application that encourages users to answer questions on areas they know about using a peer to peer application (there is no cash or recognition reward system available with it though which I think is a weakness).

FARK is a weblog run by a couple of guys collecting links to stuff that is “funny or outrageous without being too obscene”. Nearly every time I visit it there is something weird on this weblog that makes me smile – today it is the story about the Penny Pincher of the Year competition. Personally I think that the second place person should have been the winner – “Instead of buying me a birthday card, my husband will take me to Wal-Mart, pick me out a card and show it to me. He then tells me to read it, and when I finish reading he proceeds to put it back in the card rack.” !

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At last a new debate on my message board – a belated start to a discussion about the relevance of Linux to the third world. It stems from my earlier criticism of the idea of supplying Linux-running Playstations to Africa and an earlier piece by a Linux evangelist who worked in Africa. Why not join the discussion?

Political Compass An interesting site that measures your political views on two axes – left vs right and authoritarian vs libertarian using some more interesting than usual questions designed to tease out personal views rather than the answers to specific issues. There is also the opportunity to compare yourself to their interpretation of various UK politicians. I am Economic Left/Right: -2.04 Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.50 it seems ( a left libertarian).link loan payday 50day saving loans account pay20 loan payday new advance cashloan debt bad consolidation credit adviseloans aircraft financing aviationland bank america loanand ilitary loans 1 mortgagesloan 125 home 100payday 12 18 loan credit internetlink loan payday 12

The decline of Russia – don’t blame capitalism (?!) A pundit says that a) things in Russia aren’t so bad and b) where they are bad it isn’t due to the sudden introduction of capitalism in the 1990s – it’s because it wasn’t introduced fast and thoroughly enough. The political axe he is grinding becomes clear early on when he says,

“The obvious solution that emerged [to the difficulty of collecting taxes] was a low, flat tax rate. As of this year, Russia introduced a flat income tax of only 13 percent (a rate that the United States and Western Europe could only dream about).”

One man’s dream is another’s nightmare… Similarly this statement:

“Privatization and market pricing have revived much of the country’s infrastructure. Free-market competition has fostered an incredible expansion in the telecommunications industry. Airports and airlines have likewise improved. Road construction is up. New ports have been built around St. Petersburg. Whereas ruins once blighted the landscape of even the Soviet capital, modern-day Russia has initiated a widespread building boom.”

… reminds one of the “see no evil” attitude of communist sympathisers visiting Stalinist Russia in the 1930s (only in reverse).

Still it is interesting to see things from a different perspective (and I haven’t been to Russia so my own unwillingness to believe this man may be because of my own prejudices).amazon card problem creditunion credit federal aacredit card movie acceptcredit small accept cards businessand older cards 16 creditcredit phone visa accept accept card$600 2007 credit tax$5000 loan no check with credit Map