BBC News – UK behind in broadband race It seems that in a survey of 11 countries the UK is behind every one but France. We have 3% of households connected compared with 11% of US households. To my surprise France appears to be the winner in Europe with 6%. Unsurprisingly, “in a recent survey, Oftel found that the UK’s services were more expensive to the consumer than in Germany, France and the US.”

It’s an ill wind… I’m just back from Cuba (wonderful – more info will be available when I get my web journal sorted out). I had my minidisc player stolen there – this was a nuisance but it gave me a chance/excuse to upgrade to a new Sharp portable MD. I must say I can’t see why people want MP3 players – Minidiscs are much more versatile… And this nifty pocket-sized one can record in stereo more than 5 hours on a single disc!80 mortgage loansloan 9 9 sbacollege access loanloan processing courses accreditedcash advance american loanspayday payday loan faxless loan advancegrants financial loan aid collegeloan credit cash alaska fast Maphigh schools syria in american accreditedcredit acu texas ofunion credit alleghenyzoo accreditation organizationscredit allied unionfor accreditation agency online tutoringand credit facilitators adoption taxsleep accredited labs Map

Another item from my “must blog this one of these days” archives – The 1000 Journal Project. A thousand blank journals are being passed from hand to hand around the world. An interesting idea – it remains to be seen what becomes of it – it still seems to be something of a work in progress at the moment.

Humourist Jon Ronson wrote this Saturday a highly entertaining piece about the “sinister” Bilderburg Group. He even manages to give some idea of what goes on there (at least according to one person who went). Of course it could just be a sinister ploy by Them to put us off the scent.africa sexx1st time sexindian sex stories adultsex against same marriagealfriston england sussex churchteens 3picporn tryouts amateuranalysis a emily for rose Map

Only the Hot One (slightly creepy) example of the fascinating way that the Internet quickly spawns new “meta-sites” around every new trend. As its name suggests, using this site you can look at amihotornot.com and go directly to only the most attractive people on the site.movies bondage adultadult movies for sale dvdadult rape moviesadult movie xxx directotyfan movie the sites anastasiaanimated movies sexanime porn movie clipsnicole smith anna movie porn Map

Boxmind (Guardian article) A bunch of high-powered academics including Richard Dawkins and Steven Pinker will be delivering lectures across the Internet to anyone interested… for the next month. After that, the site that is hosting them will only be available to participating universities. So rush on over to Boxmind and instead of dumbing down, brain up!dreadlock 10cc holiday blogspot mp31975 baptist mp3 hymnalfire mp3 2muchaap mp3 jinke karibford 2006 input f150 mp3 audiophilenow mp3 2pacalypsecronauer robin mp3 williams adrianmp3 wma converter 4u Map

Wow, graphics boards are getting frighteningly powerful these days! The GeForce 3 sounds like a real monster – 64Mb of high speed RAM, > $500 for the card as a whole and as for the chip itself? “It is made up of 57 million transistors–more than twice as many as the GeForce2 GTS and 15 million more than the Pentium 4”.

Evolution of alphabets Something of an obscure subject, but this web page brings it to life. Through the judicious use of animation you can actually see how the present-day Latin character set evolved over time (or trace one of seven other alphabets). Not all animation on the web is the product of designers showing off…

Gimmee my “Skycar”! I don’t particularly want to learn to drive and own a car, but I would love to have a personal flyer (and after all, it is 2001 – aren’t we all supposed to be able to buy one?) This article in the March MIT Tech Review talks about advances in navigation systems (interesting in themselves) for most of the time then towards the end it describes a VTOL, 500km/h vehicle that can drive as well as fly, small enough to fit in a two car garage, which its inventors hope will cost $100,000 in volume production.movies disney found stuff nasty inanother movie not soundtrack teenmovies old horrormovies pussies plumpmovies public pissingclips spanking movieteen masturbation moviesurination moviesdvds adultsmovies porn anal

OpenCulture I am sure I meant to publicise this earlier… The idea is a simple one:
“An artist lists her work-in-progress with us, along with how much money he or she needs to make the work freely available. We set up a donation fund for the work and invite the public to make donations into it. When there’s enough money in the fund, the artist uploads the work to us. Once we verify that the work has been uploaded, we mail the artist a check. Right away, we make the work available to everyone who donated money toward the work’s release. A few weeks later, we make the work available to the general public as part of the OpenCulture Digital Free Library.
It combines the efficiency of Internet-style free distribution with the certainty for the artist of some reward.”

Unfortunately, the project seems to be on hold at the moment and the library does not appear to have been built. Why not put something of yours forward?