"He also supports the Fair Tax, which would eliminate the Internal Revenue Service and corporate and individual income taxes, replacing them with a 23 percent national sales tax on all new goods and services. Each month, taxpayers would receive a check to offset the tax on basic items such as food and medicine."

Bill Moyers, Buying the War

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may we rip in peace

a tale of two California cypherpunks who went to Baghdad to seek their fortune, and bring the Internet to Iraq.

see how your site will look in google

".. the London-based Freeland League (founded in 1935) proposed the purchase of seven million acres in the East Kimberley region of Western Australia (encompassing the properties of Connor, Durack and Doherty) as a farming settlement for a potential 50 000 refugees from Nazism."

Charter

The funniest thing you will ever see in your life

Martin Bryant Conspiracy

Richie Rich gets funky context menu

On Drought and Cubbie Station

Tsar Nicholas II, Russia's last emperor, was the first Russian leader to approve a plan for a tunnel under the Bering Strait, in 1905, 38 years after his grandfather sold Alaska to America for $7.2 million.

"Eloquent, Understated and Majestic" home designs

"By implementing sustainable, clean energy sources such as solar and hydro power, Victory Lane will generate enough energy onsite to exceed its own energy demands"

A search engine for everyday use

and other goodies including roman numeral conversion

Obviously they aren't talking about graphic design

IE7 continues to gain ground rapidly

"the attacker creates a web page containing a simple piece of malicious JavaScript code. When the page is viewed, the code makes a login attempt into the user's home broadband router, and then attempts to change its DNS server settings to point to an attacker-controlled DNS server. Once the user's machine receives the updated DNS settings from the router .... the attacker basically owns the victim's web connection"

change your default router password!

The Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life is planned to become a comprehensive catalogue of all known species of organisms on Earth by the year 2011. Rapid progress has been made recently and this, the seventh edition of the Annual Checklist, contains 1,008,965 species.

complete with 154 tomahawk missles for warmth and comfort

An informal online resource for summit-focused hikers, climbers, and mountain lovers

makes use of OpenSearch spec

If people object to wind farms cluttering up the countryside, one answer might be to put them in the air

TV shows in a flash player

"Biodiesel from palm oil causes 10 times as much climate change as ordinary diesel."

Dutch report estimates clearing in Malaysia and Singapore for palm oil production results in 2 billion tonnes of C02, 8% of the world's fossil fuel emissions

"There are similar impacts all over the world. Sugarcane producers are moving into rare scrubland habitats (the cerrado) in Brazil, and soya farmers are ripping up the Amazon rainforests. As President Bush has just signed a biofuel agreement with President Lula, it's likely to become a lot worse. Indigenous people in South America, Asia and Africa are starting to complain about incursions onto their land by fuel planters."

a new way to play

auDA's 2007 Names Policy Panel is currently considering changes to .au policy, including:

* allowing direct registrations in .au (eg. name.au)

* changes to .au eligibility and allocation policy rules

* allowing registrants to sell their .au domain names.

"Concentro features compute density levels of up to 9600 cores in a 40' x 8' container, or up to 3.5 petabytes of storage"