http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/02/24/ispa_villain/

“The UK presidency of the European Union received this award for seeking EU wide data retention laws which will force ISPs and telcos to retain more data for longer without proper impact assessment,” a spokesman for UK internet trade group ISPA said.

http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/games/index.html

A positive plethora of pastimes past and present from pernicious pastimes to pragmatics and patterns of pedagogy, pieces and parodies and paradigms of prosperity.

http://pageone.stumbleupon.com/

Powerful imagery.

http://www.greenhowards.org.uk/kenneth-taylor/index.htm

From the page: “In 1944, Lieutenant Kenneth Taylor of the Green Howards recorded his experiences in an “illegal” wartime diary.

Mr Taylor presented a transcript of his diary to the Green Howards Regimental Museum. Serving soldiers were forbidden from keeping diaries, so he wrote his entries secretly every evening in a liberated German exercise book. In it he details his experiences in 1944 from D-Day in June through to the end of the year.

With the 6th Battalion The Green Howards he moved through France and Belgium into Holland, arriving at the Nijmegen Bridge across the River Waal just a few days after its capture by the Allied troops. The bridge was a vital objective on the advance of Allies into Germany.”

http://rembailey.stumbleupon.com/

Please give a warm welcome to http://rembailey.stumbleupon.com/ a “retired economist, keen sailor, philosophical sceptic, and general ‘pain in the bum’.”

His retirement looks pretty good judging by this picture.

http://zaneucb.stumbleupon.com/

Welcome to stumbleupon.

http://www.astronautix.com/craftfam/lunbases.htm

Visions of proposed Lunar bases past and present.

http://www.orientaloutpost.com/proddetail.php?prod=0yyf

http://whitedog.typepad.com/test_bed/images/president_ronald_reagan.jpg

You and I are told increasingly that we have to choose between a left or a right. There is only an up or down: up to man’s age-old dream — the ultimate in individual freedom consistent with law and order — or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism. And regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would trade our freedom for security have embarked on this downward course.

Ronald Reagan, Republican National Convention, 1964

http://www.samuelsdesign.com/comics/pages/callingboys14.htm

From the page: “Of course at the time J. Edgar Hoover was known only as the ramrod straight and morally unquestionable head of the F.B.I. – but with the perspective of history we can now enjoy the sublime irony of this odd cover!!”

http://www.chinasite.com/

http://www.westernunion.com/info/osTelegram.asp

The Telegram R.I.P.

http://www.beatrixwillius.de/gallery/gallery_am_7_20.html

Wanna buy some snowcrash?

http://www.lunaestas.com/blackadder/

Edmund, a poem by Queenie.

When the clouds are dark, and the dogs go bark,
When the sky is black, and the ducks go quack,
When the sky is blue, and the cows go moooooooo,
Think of lovely Queenie, She’ll be thinking of you.

(Title suggested by William Shakespeare)

http://www.gcarlson.com/microbial_spikedbacilli.htm

From the site ”

Dermatophytes
Varieties of fungal dermatophytes that infect human skin and hair.”

http://www.sloansfineart.com/art_gallery/Images/Valley%20of%20Death.JPG

Into The Valley

Into the Valley
Betrothed and divine
Realisations no virtue
But who can define
Why soldiers go marching
Those masses a line
This disease is catching
From victory to stone

Ahoy! Ahoy! Land, sea and sky
Ahoy! Ahoy! Boy, man and soldier
Ahoy! Ahoy! Deceived and then punctured
Ahoy! Ahoy! Long may they die

Out of concealment
Blank and stark eyed
Why so uncertain
This culture deceives
Prophesised, brainwashed
Tomorrow’s demise
All systems failing
The placards unroll

Ahoy! Ahoy! Land, sea and sky
Ahoy! Ahoy! Boy, man and soldier
Ahoy! Ahoy! Deceived and then punctured
Ahoy! Ahoy! Long may they die

Time for the audit
The gathering trial
A collectors dilemma
Repositioned and filed