A collection of labels of 19th and early 20th C products containing now-banned drugs (including Coca Cola which contained cocaine and heroin, which was originally patented by Bayer, apparently) with brief discussion.

Thanks to boingboing for the link (via Xeni who got it from Paul Bissex)loans alberta student collectionloan application student albertaloans student acs consolidated80 loan-to-value combinedloan ameriinstallment 2500 credit loans poor66 calculators loan month carhardship info 401k loanloans amorcalifornia funding loan acenokia free ringtone 6255put 2 ringtone sidekickctu sprint ringtone 24free ringtone 3586i cellular usfree 6225 ringtone nokiafool act a ringtoneringtone fool act50 cent friend nextel best ringtone Map

Mafia is a simple game of betrayal and suspicion, which from the description in this New York Observer article sounds highly entertaining – like one of my favourite games, Diplomacy, but without needing to find seven people who know the rules and without having to commit yourself to hours of playing. More detailed rules are available here.loan acceptanceloans alaska title car75 loan 25 mortgageloans hard money 100al loan fund communityloan down percent 5 homerefinancing loan 110loan alabama landinterest card 0 credit loans2nd va requirements loan homein reading course maryland accreditedac credit accept card merchantambac creditcard merchant account credit casino canadafor online courses teachers accredited floridaamber creditaccreditation african tourism south board withschool diploma classical accredited high curriculum Map

I am reluctant to publicise this, however Alan Ralsky, one of the Internet’s top five spammers, apparently, claims it has made him a millionaire. Of course much of Ralsky’s own business may have to do with selling the tools to make more spam so he has a vested interest in making this business seem as lucrative as possible. Judging by other interviews with spammers I have read and linked to, most don’t make much money from it.

Later: It seems that thanks to Slashdot Ralsky has been on the receiving end of some spamming himself and one zealous counter-spammer claims that Ralsky was so upset at him taking a picture of Ralsky’s new house that he started harassing him.credit merchant accepting account card onlineestate investors accredited realinstitution accreditedevaluation accreditationnursing online accredited programsinternet cards accept credit viacredit bad http 100 remortgagecredit aaa service Map

What Would Samuel Pepys Do [in the 21st century]? Keep a weblog, of course. Phil Gyford, who I know slightly, will be publishing Samuel Pepys’ diary online as a weblog a day at a time, complete with links to more in-depth historical information.

Pepys, probably the world’s best-known diarist, wrote about his life in 17th Century London – Phil provides more detail here.

If you prefer the text in an easy-to-carry-around form or want to “cheat” and read ahead, Project Gutenberg has the whole text for you to download thanks to Dr David Widger, who has also added a lot of other etexts to the public realm.

Later Phil has been interviewed by the BBC and a passing reader of the story pointed out that Pepys would not have kept a public weblog – his diary was in a very hard-to-decipher shorthand.

… and make a point at the same time. Creative Commons has laudably stepped forward with a (relatively) easy to use copyright license generator for websites and other material so you can indicate to passing readers exactly which rights you wish to cede and which you want to retain for yourself.

If all you want to do is assert your existing copyright you should recognise that in most countries you don’t need any kind of copyright notice – you are perfectly entitled to prosecute infringers regardless. Where it is more tricky (and where Creative Commons comes in) is if you want, for example, to allow non-commercial use of your intellectual property but prohibit un-licensed commercial use (as I have elected to do as you will see if you click on this link or the new copyright banner at the bottom R). Creative Commons has produced what I hope will turn out to be a legally binding and clear way to do this.

This should encourage more easy non-commercial sharing of Internet material since by looking at a Creative Commons-badged site you can easily see the ways that a site (or image or MP3) owner will let you use their material without having to bother them by email.movies licking extreme sapphichead movie jar thefull movies lesbianmovies sex lolitalong download porn movieshots movie screenformat movie scripttgp movieswebcam movies swingerwith movies frontal nudity malealltel ringtone totally free wafer downloads3316 ca barrington way sacramentogroup warrington bomb england 310ma great and barrington alliumchip curington agentmaedean and al arringtonringtones special 38 freeringtones absoulutely free Map

In the wake of Google’s Zeitgeist of 2002, both Lycos and Yahoo have provided glimpses of what people are using their search engines to search for. Dragonball (the Japanese animation series and associated products) is at or near the top for both of the other engines, as is Britney Spears, but Dragonball doesn’t appear to feature in Google’s Zeitgeist at all, and on Google Jennifer Lopez is more prominent than Britney Spears – I wonder what that says about the user demographics of each search engine.

I also can’t help wondering what the results from all three of the engines would look like if you included porn. Would sex-related searches make the top 10? And are there tidal patterns of sexual experimentation online over time or are the world’s sexual interests fairly static?mortgage loan alabama refinancemortgage alaska refinance loanmortgage loans alaska refinancecalculator amortization loan home 200 loans armortgage down 0 loanscar 0 loans interestmortgage loan 1 commercial1 hour loans by phoneloan 10 dollar

THE – The Humane Environment wants to be the user interface for the 21st century. An open source user interface to computing “as easy to learn as a GUI (or easier) yet as fast to use (or faster) than the command-line systems we struggle to learn but love to use”. But like the DVORAK keyboard, “You cannot make an interface better without making it different (that’s obvious). If it’s a lot better, it will be a lot different. This means that it will feel unfamiliar to anybody familiar with present interfaces.”

The lead designer is Jef Raskin, one of the early creators of the Mac, so his ideas seem likely to be interesting, but I am not sure that his starting point – “we love to use command line interfaces’ will help this catch on outside the hardcore computer user community. I tried to find screenshots but there weren’t any, which doesn’t encourage me much either. Has anyone tried this out yet?

I know when I visited Microsoft’s research labs about five years ago they were working on new user interfaces as well but they probably figured they couldn’t afford to make any radical improvements now given the size of the installed base.

I hope that whatever happens we are not going to be stuck for all time with a computer user interface based around a mouse, a keyboard and a pseudo-office-desktop metaphor which has already been greatly stretched…free movie facialfree machine movies fuckingmovie clips incest freemovie xxx free directory job handfuck movie clipsmovies gynecology examshandjob clips movieblonde hot pussy moviesjar head the moviefull movies lesbian8310 free ringtonesaudiovox ringtones alltel for an phoneringtone mobile 3390 tmp3 nokia ringtone 6101all of the crazy ringtones frogmp3 ctu 24 ringtonefor ringtones free 3 gs3330 free ringtone 3310 nokia Mapacreditar vida vegetariano boa pessoa bemaccreditation international university amaaccreditation bplcorp americredit financialcosmology accredited of schools californiacenters ambulatory surgery for bodies accreditingaccredited schools versus public unaccreditedaccommodation crediton Map

A pretty rigorous analysis of six different approaches to eliminating spam – their benefits and drawbacks. The author is particularly keen on a method he is developing at the moment – “Bayesian trigram filters“.link add ringtonemp3 ringtones mp3 airtelmp3 ringtone american charge headringtone free 7000 lgsamsung ringtone a660composer free ringtone 3390ringtones usher 99siemens free ringtone a50 Mapflip 100 and fix loansfederal loan deduction 2006 student taxleveraged 502 loanloans $200 payday403b annuity loan rulesafs program loanauto repossession after loanloans acs student payments Map

Salon’s occaisionally-amusing political cartoonist draws a well-executed satirical follow-up to a recent Wall Street Journal editorial about “lucky duckies” who don’t pay tax in the US because they are too poor. There is also a Salon (premium) feature about how the idea that the poor are ‘getting away with’ not paying tax is being spread.gambling 900 paytablets 5 viagranight ringtone monday football abccharles find sites viagra adult linskaill2g size mp30 viagra herbaldebt finance credit 101feb viagra daily cheap 2000 statistics Map

Take a look at this and click on each of the reindeer for some light entertainment (requires Shockwave).