Mindjack, the online magazine I occaisionally contribute to, has an interesting feature about the Internet Archive which stores more than ten billion web pages from 1995 to the present in an attempt to preserve for history the ever-changing web, where pages appear and disappear overnight. The author doesn’t interview anyone but if you were ever curious about how such a project could work or what 120 terabytes of storage (120,000,000 Mb) would look like, this answers your question!loans adanced business10 interest loan paydayloans cash 2000mortgage 3 broker loanbank america mortgage home 20 loancash advance today loanloan bank america carstudent link loan 22 loan advanceloans debt alabama mortgage consolidationhome videos amatuer sexsex aim botillustrated sex stories 1stclip adult free porn video contentintercourse ages having girls of sexualporn adult hardcoresex porn 3dart porn 3d Map

To me the most interesting thing about this article revealing the contents of Saddam’s email box is not the contents themselves (though there are a surprising number of people who want to help the guy out, apparently) but the fact that it is published at all. If someone at Wired had hacked into, say, Tony Blair’s email box do you think they would have been allowed to publish those results?poster serenity moviesex female pics free free ejaculation moviessex movies flashmovie sex samplein disney subliminal messages movies sexualmovie thumbs shemaleclips silvia saint moviedipping skinny movies Map

… and if you are American and just had an “Argentinian” steak – guess what? It was almost certainly from Australia or New Zealand. According to this The Wall Street Journal article American restaurants and food shops seem to be able to get away with falsifying the origins of all kinds of gourmet foods.

Wasabi? “that green lump beside the sushi plate is almost always nothing more than horseradish, mustard and bright green food coloring that costs a few dollars a pound. Made from a gnarled root that is tough to cultivate, true wasabi costs about $70 a pound. ”

Key lime pie? “almost never the real thing. Because real Key limes are yellow, a true Key lime pie isn’t even lime green.”mortgage credit loan 125 secondmortgage nationwide home loans 1st20 loan home 80 20 calculator20 loan 80 calculator mortgageeducation payday 29 loan 20in 2004 advance cash loanloans 24 7 easy cashin 2nd loan california mortgage Map

UK members of parliament don’t tend to read their email so the web to fax gateway FaxYourMP.com is a real boon in putting constituents in touch with their elected representatives quickly and easily. Unfortunately, MPs don’t always read their faxes either, according to some interesting statistics just published by the site. In fact, the Conservative leader, Iain Duncan Smith joined a rogues gallery of 26 MPs who have not responded to any faxes, including six who have publicly stated they will not respond to any.

I tried to use faxyourmp to contact my own MP, Jeremy Corbyn, some time ago and was among the 75% of faxes sent to him which have remained un-acknowledged…

Overall, 61% of faxes to local were responded to within 14 days (the site’s “cut-off date”).dirty moviesmovies homemade webcamclips porno moviemovie adult free formovie amc theatresmovies kiss girlindian movies sexfuck movies lolita Map

Spiked Online, the web descendant of Living Marxism magazine (which didn’t have a great deal to do with Marxism, to be honest, when it was around) publishes some interesting counter-intuitive UK political and health stuff. I just came across this interesting article which points out that,

• “Britain’s HIV/AIDS epidemic remains highly concentrated in London”
• “In the early 1990s, new cases passed 1000 a year, to reach a peak of 1853 in 1994; in 2001 some 558 new cases were recorded.”
• “The total of deaths from AIDS follows a similar course, reaching a peak of 1531 in 1994 and declining to 221 in 2001.”

and most interestingly,

“The big untold story of AIDS in Britain is that the epidemic explosion among heterosexuals that was anticipated in the 1980s has never happened… If we look, for example, at the figures for heterosexually acquired HIV infection in 2001, we find a total of 2226. This has been widely quoted to illustrate the rising tide of heterosexual transmission at a time when spread among gay men is declining…

How many people became HIV positive as a result of heterosexual contact with a partner who became infected in Europe? This figure – the key statistic of the indigenous heterosexual epidemic – is 52 (2.3 percent of the total). It is noteworthy that this number has remained remarkably steady over the past decade.”

That isn’t to say, of course, that the authorities were necessarily wrong to emphasise the risks of unprotected sex to everyone – after all, there are lots of other STDs that need to be curbed, the warnings may have incidentally prevented un-wanted pregnancies and, of course, without the warnings an epidemic just might have occurred. But it is nonethless interesting to see just how far we are in the UK from a real heterosexual AIDS threat.

My wife has been complaining about the weather in the London (not that the weather in Paris is any better). I have been feebly alternating between “it isn’t that bad” and “it’s not usually this bad”. Well, it seems that I was right – it has been even worse than usual… (thanks to pop-up toaster for the link).canada alberta personal loanslawsuit loan accidentrate mortgage loan adjustable minnesota homeaccount loan payday fast savingsreal estate loans commercial 97 coloradoloan guaranteed 15000 personalloan texas agriculturalrapid refund loan 2nd ononline loan $5000month auto 84 loan rates

Yes, we all know that in many ways Hollywood’s grasp of science is weak – but it is still fun to read in some detail why some things that you see on screen make no sense. And the creator of this site does point out some things that I hadn’t thought of, like:

“A single inexpensive passive sensor can be used to detect the presence of human motion for an entire room. While multi-beamed laser security systems are not impossible, there’s usually no reason to use one…

…When a sniper looks through the telescopic sight on his rifle, he knows where the bullet is going to go relative to the crosshairs. Adding a laserbeam would do nothing except tip off the victim that he’s about to be shot and give him time to duck before the bullet arrived. It would also help reveal the sniper’s location.

Hitting a moving target using a laser sight would be extremely difficult. The sniper would have to lead the subject and so the red dot would be projected in front of the target where it could easily be lost in the background.”

… to say nothing of the fact that a laser won’t help you aim if there is any wind…

The writer also gives mini reviews of several popular movies discussing just how scientifically accurate they are (usual answer: not very)

Thanks again to Harald/chk for the link…

Wired Magazine now puts its articles online when the magazine hits the newsstand instead of a month later. In the latest issue, you can read about the extraordinary exodus of Filipinos to jobs across the world. I learned, among other things, that mobile phones and text messaging there is extraordinarily inexpensive:

“Each 160-character message costs 1 peso (2 US cents) within the Philippines and 10 pesos internationally, making this possibly the cheapest place on earth to get hooked on texting. And it’s only the calling party who pays. A typical cell phone costs the equivalent of $50; most people buy prepaid cards that, for $6, cover the cost of 300 domestic messages.”

Text messaging costs me 7 times as much…

Not only can you search what 6800 webloggers are writing about – it also lets you see what the “top 40” links of the weblog community are at the moment and even see what the most popular items are that webloggers request on the Amazon wish lists that they often provide for benevolent strangers (I have one too!).

The most popular links tend to be a little geeky but there is usually at least one interesting link in the bunch – today I read that adcritic, the site that used to bring the public streaming video of its favourite advertising (before it went bust) has been taken over by Ad Age which will be relaunching it as a subscription-only service.tone ringtone polyphonic free 16ringtones 213ringtones free nokia 2600for cent 50 ringtones sprintringtone emergency 51ringtone mobile 2 sidekick tcent do how ringtones we 50mp3 ringtone 6630 as Map

Every week I am emailed a list of the keywords people have searched this site for when they use the search box at the right (don’t worry – it doesn’t tell me who makes these searches). No more than one in ten of these seem to be searching for anything that makes sense to me, however. I just don’t understand what these people are looking for and why they think I might have alluded to it.

I am even starting to wonder whether somehow I might be getting someone else’s searches… Here are the 12 searches made last week:

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Could anyone who made one of those searches tell me why? Any other strange search stories people would like to share?