UK elections ignore the net According to the Guardian, only 0.1% of election-related news stories surveyed were about information technology or e-commerce. Disappointingly, the “election process” (who is rubbishing who) made up 37.2% of the coverage – by far the largest proportion.ny lpn in accredited programstherapy physio alberta program in accreditedadverse credit wirralof accreditation college junior aquinas nursingcourse accredited specialist medical codingambulatory accrediting for surgery bodies centerspublic unaccredited versus accredited schoolsaccommodation crediton Map

Work Avoided Through Extensive List-Making A classic from The Onion. FWIW I have 50 items on 6 todo lists…

Free computers and broadband net access… for poor folks in a Baltimore public housing project. Believe it or not, only two thirds of the residents have signed up so far.

“Residents typically wanted to know whether they would lose their place in public housing if the computer broke down. Some wanted to know, conversely, if they had to take the computer to keep their apartment.

Others did not want to be bothered, said Constance Mayfield, executive director of the program. “In a community like this, even though people are apprised of services, many are not accustomed” to taking advantage of them, Ms. Mayfield said, noting that this was just the sort of problem being sought out in the experiment.”

It seems that kids are the prime motivator… None of this is too surprising, but it is a good read.

The NSA taps fibre optic cable A story that made me say, “well, duh!” at first, I must admit, but it is interesting to read speculation of how this would have been done. And even more interesting to read, “The NSA’s budget is classified, but individuals familiar with it say it is about two-thirds what it was a decade ago, even before accounting for inflation.” I don’t know if this is misinformation (could there be an even more secret agency getting their money? Heh.) but I would have expected their budget to have gone way up not down given the new fields of the Internet and the mobile phone for them to play in…

New Yorker: Pimps and Dragons Yet another piece about the history of Ultima Online, one of the first and most successful massively multi-player online games. Well worth a read so get in quick before the New Yorker site removes it!

China beats India in Buddha wars er… surely this is missing Buddha’s point here?

The Empire That Was Russia In the early 1900s, one Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii took photographs around the Russian empire. They would be interesting enough anyway but what makes them especially fascinating is that they were taken using a unique process which (after some digital re-assembly) yields colour photographs with an almost super-real quality. Well worth a look…

Wow – the beginnings of a discussion in my message board at last! This one is about minidisc vs other digital storage media for music listening.

An entertaining parody (in PDF form…) “If you’re buying Perrier or Poland Spring or any of those other bottled waters, what you’re drinking has actually been in the ground for thousands (if not millions!) of years. That is hardly what we would call fresh water!… We gather only the finest individual hydrogen and oxygen atoms and combine them (two parts hydrogen to one part oxygen, of course!) in our state-of-the-art hydrogen-oxygen bonding facility..”

Also see Dihydrogen Monoxide – a warning about the effects of DHMO.

The news about broadband in the UK just gets worse and worse…

According to the Financial Times, BT recently “stopped targeting the consumer market” and now Freeserve has put its (already too costly) prices for broadband even higher – it now costs £50 (c. $75) a month for ADSL – a £10 increase. The good news is that cable providers are now a lot cheaper – I get my broadband for half as much.and loan 10 payday 15www payday 15 com 10 loancredit refinancing auto bad 100 loanin 100 maryland loan financingloan value 10023 16 payday advances loane 40 loan payday 28pay 4 loan payday day 6personal credit loan with 5 badpayday cash advance 8 loan 11bbs dark underage nudeever tits largestbabes nude wwesucking underage cockwife hairy youngvaginas small asianamataur creampiehairy huge clitshairy pusyflexible nude babes