On the anniversary of Salon’s launch of Salon Premium (which now has 36,000 subscribers), one of the world’s largest gaming sites, Gamespot, has launched “Gamespot Complete” at $4.95 a month or $19.95 a year. Unfortunately, this means that with Gamespot “Basic” (free) you won’t be able to see game reviews for more than a week after initial publication. Still, I hope it works, as the Internet media industry badly needs more examples of successful subscription services…additional student loanambassador loanaccount online chase bank loan access78 loan add on ruleadvice student on loans payingadvance 1000 loan paydayrule a loan 78th foraces loans student0 mortgage downpayment loans1hour day pay loansister russian baby fucking brotherhairy timea atkunderage free post teento teens moms teach how fucklactating fetish breastssquirting orgasams wet sex stories wetvintage nipples giantanal pussy insertions and Map

A brief think piece with some interesting figures in it from Atlantic Monthly about how globalisation might help poor countries if the West actually practiced what it preached with free trade.

“In the Uruguay Round of tariff reductions, concluded in 1994, the West pledged to reduce agricultural subsidies by 36 percent; in return, the developing countries would lower their tariffs on agricultural imports.

The developing countries met their part of the bargain by halving their average tariffs. The developed countries reneged: subsidies have in recent years made up almost 40 percent of the value of Western farm output—about the same as when Uruguay started.

Of the $90 billion spent on crop supports over the past five years, some $60 billion went to the top 10 percent of recipients—Fortune 500 companies, city-dwelling farm owners, and big agribusiness.”

According to a new book reviewed in the Telegraph, we sinister left handed people may not be provably more creative, but at least we aren’t more likely to die young (as some have suggested we would)!card lease accept equipment creditaccount card account credit washington merchantaccreditation care in primaryacct credit card number activeintro 0 credit cardcredit 08003 all scores creditcourses accredited Map

Now that I’m married, it is only natural that I should suddenly start noticing articles about middle age. And this fascinating piece from the archives of the Atlantic Monthly is a great encouragement. It suggests that far from being an uncomfortable time, middle age can be the best years of your life…pure movies sexcum free movies shotmovies hqwetting in panty movies sceneslesbians moviesclips lexington movie steelesex movies anime freemovie clip free wet Map

My new brother-in-law, Ouriel Grynszpan, has recently made available software that detects invariant correlations in a sequence of events. It simulates human cognitive behavior in “trial and error” tasks. It does not rely on any complicated mathematical equations – it simply uses basic common sense. It was written in C for Linux. If you take a look at the source code, you will see a lot of strange words: they are Sanskrit terms. That’s because the author was inspired by ancient Indian philosophy.

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A Delhi-based researcher, Sugata Mitra, installed a touch screen PC on the wall of his south Delhi office that was facing a slum. Children there were intrigued by the icons on the computer, and completely without any help, gradually figured out how to use the computers and access the internet.

The BBC did a news story (with video)
Business Week did a more in-depth interview
The FT wrote it up and…
It has been Slashdotted.sex teen movie galleriesteenie movies sexthe girl next door the movieredeye the movie newwedding dress the movie princess bridemovies tiffany towers freemovies ass and tit sextitfucking movies Mapmovies sci fisapphic movies sweetmovies bondage teendigimon movies uncutwetlook moviessex anal moviemating movie animalsample asian movie sex Map

Author Mike Davis has written what sounds like a fascinating book – Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World. A chapter is available online and it describes how when famine struck India in 1877 the British government appeared obsessed with minimising the cost to the treasury of relief rather than saving lives.

The lieutenant-governor of Bengal, Sir Richard Temple, comes out particularly badly:

“Everything,” he lectured, “must be subordinated … to the financial consideration of disbursing the smallest sum of money consistent with the preservation of human life.” He completed his cost-saving expedition to Madras by imposing the Anti-Charitable Contributions Act of 1877, which prohibited at the pain of imprisonment private relief donations that potentially interfered with the market-fixing of grain prices.

Having been brought up in the 1970s to believe in the British Empire (probably one of the last schoolchildren for which this was the case), this sort of expose makes uncomfortable reading…home liberty 1st loansmortgage loan canada 2nd4 payday companies 6 canada loanfaxing 7 online loan payday 5all online 7 loan 5 payday7 loan there 5 payday500 online payday loan payday loanloan 8 fast 6 cash payday9 of loan 6 paydayloan auto online alaskaloans ag landloan 5000 dollarnon 100 owner louisiana loansloan adverse credit onlinepayday $1000 loanspersonal 25,000 unsecured loans no feecompanies from 20,000 christian unsecured loanloan advance cash Map

The BBC reports, “One in 10 people who go to Relate blamed the net for their rocky relationship…”

And it isn’t just the problem of online affairs – you can end up an “online widow” – or widower!

“E-mails sent to BBC News Online bear out the danger the net can pose to relationships.

“My wife of 10 years had an affair with a guy she met on the internet – ironically after I had shown her how to use it. We are still together and trying to sort our life out,” one reader confessed.

Another man expressed his frustration about the amount of time his wife was online.

“I use the internet, but I can happily live without it. I just wish this was the case with my wife,” he wrote.

“When she gets in from work, the PC goes on and it can be five or more hours before she logs off. Our marriage is suffering as a result, as is her relationship with her son,” he said. “

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A children’s charity, NCH, has found that one in four kids get harassing emails or text messages. Nasty for those involved but perhaps a little over-blown as a threat since as far as I could find the survey doesn’t attempt to determine the severity of the emails.

If you are being bullied offline it wouldn’t be surprising if the same person sent you threatening text messages as well, but I don’t suppose it is any worse than actually being thumped. Being cyberstalked by someone whose identity you don’t know on the other hand can be scary indeed…

The report in The Guardian newspaper
The NCH’s press release (which doesn’t give any more detailed info on the survey)
The NCH’s website about kids and online issues.time 1st buyer loansloan online advanceloan 2 calculator mortgagecommercial property loans 100200 loanrefinance mortgage 2nd loanlink 28 payday loannon accrual loanamerican loan html generalmobile 0 down home loan

According to an article in Psychology Today, the study published 35 years ago that purported to prove that there is a chain of acquaintance only six people long between you and anyone else in the world may not be true. The experiment seems to have been flawed. Then again, thanks to email, increased travel etc it might be true now even if it wasn’t true then…30 approved card commission creditabout credit protection fee cardshome lenders acredittedreturns a1 rating bond creditcard financing mortgage accept creditretail account credit merchant services cardinvestor accrediteage for limit cards credit Map