1,000 reasons John McCain shouldn't be President

Number 58: even though he has heard about them he can't work those internets things. Really John. How's your "youth outreach" campaign going? Making any inroads with those pesky under-sixties?

Good for Google!

They took the side of free speech and refused the request of Senator Joe Lieberman (Republi-dent - CT) to censor things he doesn't like.

They will not Yahoo

Microsoft drops their bid for the search engine. What next one wonders.

Today in infamy - "who the hell is this from" edition

Those of you who don't wish to celebrate the fifth annual National Mission Accomplished Day may wish to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of spam, or not.

Having cleaned out my spam folder earlier in the day at the moment it only contains a few items. There are two from some blokes who are concerned about the girth of my penis and one from an 18 year old woman named Natalia who is lonely and, apparently, naked.

Isn't this rather missing the point?

Allow me to preface this by I saying I love books. I hope that books exist forever. Nothing can, for me at least, the unadulterated joy of roaming through a truly first class bookshop. (Make a note: must get to Foyles!)

Irrespective of all of that I think that the German publisher Bertelsmann's planto release a book based on Wikepedia is patently absurd!

They're back!

Wikileaks has returned to the (American) internets after a Federal judge dropped his injunction. A small step for freedom.

Unsubtle, probably ineffective

Comcast Corporation hired ringers to fill the seats at an FCC hearing on net neutrality; probably to keep opponents of their policies from being heard.

Truth in spamming!

This morning I found a message with the following subject in my Spam folder. Have the spammers simply given up or is there something more subtle afoot?

Possible Spam : 民間放款月息2分