As I read this fundamentalist Christian site I kept repeating to myself that it has to be some kind of parody – but I have yet to find the spot where they “rip off the masks” and reveal themselves as fraudsters… [later]… someone has pointed out parts of this site which do give the game away, but it’s an incredibly elaborate hoax – and apparently they were hosted for a time on a Christian ISP before they were discovered and booted off.

This site, seems to bring together every crackpot fundamentalist belief or practice you’ve ever heard of in one place. It also led me (I’m ashamed to say) to LustPleasure.com which, suffice it to say, is not what you think (and is perfectly safe to read at the office). Read on for a collection of rib-tickling quotes from Objective: Christian Ministries.
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You wouldn’t think a 5 minute animated film called “Headless” by Wojtek Wawszczyk would turn out to be, in the end, uplifting, but it is. It’s not a masterpiece but it’s quite touching…

At the end of June one of the longest running and best-supported online-only publications, Salon, told the SEC it might be on the brink of bankruptcy. Just a few days earlier it announced its Q4 2002 results. There’s been an ominous silence since…

According to this interesting piece on the massively multi-player online role playing game (MMORPG) market, Star Wars Galaxies will be trying hard to get more women than the 10-15 percent currently registered. How?

Of the 700 or so learnable skills available, only a third are combat-related, with a number designed to appeal to women — or at any rate to those less interested in a life of galactic swashbuckling. “I’m kind of embarrassed to mention this,” says LucasArts producer Haden Blackman, “but we have a hairdressing skill tree.”

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In the US, Time Warner is starting to warn its users against sharing their bandwidth using wireless LANs. Cory Doctorow at Boing Boing, who brought this to my attention says, “I hope that 802.11a mesh-networks without any connection to an ISP (other than at a major network interchange like MAE West) take off soon, and put these fools out of commission.” But I can see the ISPs’ point – Every person who shares someone else’s connection free of charge is one fewer paying customer.

Now if wireless LAN users were charged by those that they shared from and some of that charge was funnelled back to the ISP providing the “backbone” – that might be sustainable. I suspect Sputnik and Boingo may employ this model.

The arguments arising are very similar in nature to those over sharing intellectual property. People are saying “I paid for this bandwidth I should be able to give it away to anyone I like”. But it’s important to realise that ISPs need to make money somehow or there won’t be any bandwidth around to share…

Someone put together a list of the top 30 UK weblogs and I found this weblog sitting there at #25… The other statistics available are a little more sobering – according to Alexa (used to do the ranking in the first place) this is (approximately) the 624,296th most popular site on the Internet, and my personal website is the 2,348,943th most popular. It could be worse – the website I created for my local urban regeneration group was too low to measure.

It has been suggested that the UK government needs to fund broadband content to get people to take it up. The e-Minister, Stephen Timms, said,

“For many, speed alone is not enough to justify upgrading to broadband. People need to be able to do more than play games and swap music files to convince them of the benefits of broadband.”

I am not so sure – while there is evidence that people enjoy the occaisional streaming video clip, research (like this recent US study) seems to suggest that most people get plenty of value out of broadband just by getting ordinary pages quickly without having to dial up or tie up a phone line to access them.payday 2000 loansloan payday 37 26 cashloan mortgage uk 2ndloans 401k faqloan credit bad 5 payday5 payday 20,7 loan cash online11 8 cash loan payday advancepayday fax cash loan advance noloan affiliate program15 10 loan black payday

Just to break the monotony of my text, here’s a fun image someone pointed me to – it came from here.

The BBC-backed bid that will offer 24 free-to-air channels and a set top box to receive them costing less than £100 has been chosen by the government. The previous attempt to use broadcast (“terrestrial”) digital TV to sell pay TV – ITV Digital – was a failure. Since this bid doesn’t have as many channels it should provide better reception and because it isn’t trying to sell customers a subscription it should be much more successful in winning viewers.

The BBC reports, “Californian congressman Howard Berman has drawn up a bill that would legalise the disruption of peer-to-peer networks by companies who are trying to stop people pirating copyrighted materials…”

…”The law would also allow the record companies to place programs on the machines of peer-to-peer networks to let them trace who is pirating pop.”

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