If you have Shockwave, this funky French site lets you be a musician just by tapping keys on your keyboard – no experience required! I recommend “Compulsion” (Jazz samples) and “Cargo” (an African feel). As you “play” your screen will fill with loosely-related images.

If the seasonal food binge has you worried about your size here’s some more weighty information to depress you further. This article about the obesity “epidemic” in America reveals that while in theory diets and exercise can reduce your weight, statistically people are unable to get a lasting benefit from them. The authors believe that in the face of heavily advertised and ubiquitous junk food the populace is almost powerless to resist and suggests tobacco-style regulation including a “twinkie tax”.
I can’t help thinking that if the Segway (or “Ginger”) were to get popular (which I strongly doubt) it would probably be wise to try to ban it to encourage walking… Sadly, many of the problems being faced in the US are common here in the UK as well.

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A review I wrote of Design for Communities by Derek Powazek (a book for virtual community builders like myself) is now available online.

A UK Government-sponsored report into the take-up of digital television appears to state the obvious. According to a BBC report, it says the Government must, “inform consumers about the benefits of digital TV” (which are not necessarily best promoted by the current players who want to sell expensive subscriptions) and particularly, “raise awareness of free-to-air services and equipment”, “deliver improved free-to-air public service broadcasting” and “ensure that a cheap free-to-air service is available”.

Fortunately it has given the go-ahead to the BBC to create some of those free-to-air services on TV, but I am concerned that they haven’t so far put the same emphasis on ensuring that public services are available and promoted through the interactive side of digital TV – I worry that “entry level” digital TV will concentrate on offering free-to-air TV channels rather than entry level connectivity to the Internet and interactive services.credit residential energy 2006colleges online acredited72 credit repairadvantage home line credit equityloans 3,000 for bad creditloans adverse uk creditcredit uk adverse mortgages0 credit card transfer rates Map

The Economist has an interesting article about the economics of gift giving. Apparently, if the average person went to buy the gifts they received they would only have paid 90% of their purchase price – in other words, 10% of your gift giving dollar/pound/euro is wasted. Actually, this is probably an underestimate in my view… But it turns out there is a silver lining (you can probably guess what it is…)free nokia ringtone 6255ringtone put 2 sidekick24 ringtone ctu sprintfree 3586i ringtone cellular usnokia ringtone free 6225a ringtone fool actringtone act foolcent 50 best friend nextel ringtone Maphow do cent 50 ringtone we50 how cent we ringtones doin accomodation warringtonalcatel ringtone para3105 ringtonesringtone 3210 free3410 free ringtoneringtones million 90 Map

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The presentation I did to UK local government about the usefulness of virtual community and its care and feeding is now online in Powerpoint format.

By chance I have just finished reading a chilling account of the American government response to the massacres in Rwanda in 1994. Roughly speaking it went:

• We’re not sure what is going on
• We’ll ask them to stop
• There’s nothing to be done
• Even if we did something it wouldn’t work
• It is too late to do anything anyway

The worst of it is that America did its best to ensure nobody else did anything either (for fear that a successful mission by others would make it look bad).
Here’s an example:

A discussion paper on Rwanda, prepared by an official in the Office of the Secretary of Defense and dated May 1, testifies to the nature of official thinking. Regarding issues that might be brought up at the next interagency working group, it stated,
1. Genocide Investigation: Language that calls for an international investigation of human rights abuses and possible violations of the genocide convention. Be Careful. Legal at State was worried about this yesterday—Genocide finding could commit [the U.S. government] to actually “do something.” [Emphasis added.]

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