http://www.channel4.com/news/microsites/T/torture/

Lefty liberal whingeing, or is the world’s only superpower betraying the values it claims to be defending? Channel 4’s Dispatches programme investigates.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Discoverybayhongkong.jpg

Discovery Bay, Hong Kong 2003. Hey Jim, I can see your house from here!

http://baldrin.stumbleupon.com/

Anyone who understands ‘revolving-door algorithms’… gets a thumbs up from me.
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http://www.therockalltimes.co.uk/2005/02/21/linguistic-test.html

http://www.universetoday.com/am/publish/12_new_planets.html?1822005

Summary – (Feb 18, 2005) In the last month planet hunters have uncovered 12 new worlds orbiting other stars, bringing the total planet count to 145. Two European planet hunting teams have discovered 6 gas giants as part of the High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Search (HARPS), and an American team uncovered 5 more using the W.M. Keck observatory in Hawaii. And a single, Pluto-sized planet was discovered orbiting a pulsar by Penn State’s Alex Wolszczan and Caltech’s Maciej Konacki.

http://www.chinapage.com/painting/beihong/beihong04.html

http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/H/history/war/

1642 to 1658, such good memories, did I mention that I was once Lord Protector?

http://www.nc.uk.net/

Useful resource for educators in England.

http://www.chinapage.com/newyear.html

2005 is the Year of Yiyou, popularly known as the Year of the Rooster

http://www.fas.org/irp/world/para/nira.htm

From the web site: “Suspected of receiving funds from sympathizers in the United States and of attempting to buy weapons from US gun dealers. RIRA also is reported to have purchased sophisticated weapons from the Balkans. In May 2002, three Irish nationals associated with RIRA pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy to cause an explosion and trying to obtain weapons following their extradition from Slovenia to the United Kingdom.”

http://www.usni.org/Seminars/AnnualMeeting/04/annualmeeting04LehmanQA-2.htm

From the page: “Finally, there are places in the world, not very far from you, that are very friendly with you, that have accepted terrorism as the norm for 30 or 40 years. And yet, I have been to bars in Boston where I have seen collections for more aid with “Would you like to put a dollar in here to kill a British soldier?” And as far as I can see, the response of your organization has been to accept that. Even as powerful as you are, you are going to need friends in the future. You’ve needed friends in the past. And the best friends that you have, in this country, are the United Kingdom. I’d just ask you to remember that.”
Whenever I hear Americans go on about the ‘War on terror’ I remember this and I remember the thousands who died at the hands of the IRA.

http://food.hubcom.net/cgi-win/recipe.exe?1

Who needs to buy cookbooks when there are sites like this?

http://www.howardwfrench.com/photos/Guangzhou-Nan-Hua-Xi-Jie-neighborhood/neighborhood_1

Guangzhou

http://www.howardwfrench.com/

The web site of Howard W French who is a senior writer for the New York Times. Plenty of quality journalism, with an oriental slant (French lives in Shanghai with his wife & 2 kids) mxed with the usual personal web site stuff.

http://www.avcen.com/

Makers of the Jetpod which is ‘… to all intent and purpose a low-cost world-class city airtaxi’

I want one!
flashtastic site

http://randomcarbon.stumbleupon.com/

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