Adding to my meme on search engines..
BBC News has accumulated a slew of articles about competitors to Google. The world of search engines is expanding.
Mooter is an upstart Australian which aims to use “intelligent algorithms to understand the meanings of bodies of information and cluster the themes within them.”
Yahoo is aiming for the deep [...]

There are only 35 paintings by the sublime Vermeer. Now, according to the Independent, there are 36, as a fake turns out to be real.
The picture is here, surrounded by pseudo-mysterious hands.

My old LC 575 Mac has a sheen on the keyboard from five years of pounding out scripts and letters. Last night I put it out on the verge for a hard rubbish collection. It was gone by this morning, and I felt desolate as I looked at the empty patch of grass.
The fridge [...]

There’s a window on a highway in Portland, Oregon with a sign that says “Vote or Die.” Inside is b!x, sitting with his cat, his fedora, an ashtray and ISP bills he probably can’t pay.
The internet has eaten him. Like Robotwisdom, he has become an extension of his blogpersonality, a physical avatar of an online [...]

I was really ready for a laugh. (see below).
You need magic enzymes to shift stubborn stains, right? Blood is a legitimate stain, yes?
According to Devin Iimoto, a biochemist who may lack common sense, the best enzymes come from the venom of the Florida Cottonmouth Snake.
Just heave a sachet into the tub, throw in the clothes [...]

Ever eager to track the mutating internet, Register reports that:
“The percentage of US seniors going online is growing rapidly, according to the Pew Internet & American Life Project. This rise in silver surfers mirrors a similar increase in the UK.
Twenty-two per cent of Americans aged 65 and over go online, Older Americans and [...]

Kazunari Fujii, from the Soka Gakkai International UN Liaison Office, Geneva is following the UN Rights Commission as it deliberates on the proposal for a second UN Decade for Human Rights. His notes are reported on the Universal Rights site.
Only Australia and the US are opposed.
(Soka Gakkai International, by the way, is an [...]

As we in Australia know, the Americans are hostile to the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme and are using the Free Trade Agreement to undermine it.
The threat is bloodcurdling. To see how far Big Pharm will go, and their real attitude to human life, consider the following example…
The UN and WHO are providing cheap AIDS medication. As [...]

The Haiti situation is deteriorating, and the US continues to describe Aristide as a monster.
The current situation is well summarised by Body and Soul, while a comment points to a dense but informative history which implies this is a rerun of 1991.
When the new President Clinton put a stop to the Bush shenanigans, [...]

Ed Fagan, the lawyer who forced the Swiss government to pay $1.25 billion US to victims of the Nazis, is also launching attacks on corporations which profited from apartheid.
There is a simple logic here – you hurt and profit, you pay in the end. Sinner and sinned against. These cases encourage corporations to understand [...]