PUBLIC MARKS from "Mal Burns"

Excellent new Flash interface for viewing newspaper front pages from all over the world. No RSS feed yet, but you can't have everything.

Chill out and avoid cashmas!

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Nice portal for links to artists chosen by the site owner.

It's taken them long enough and it seems there are still a few problems, but this essential reference to the laws in Britain is now online. Next stop - dispense with the lawyers!

The Colorful Building Blocks Seem To Have Been Around Forever And Still Try To Keep Customers Happy. I used to love this kit as a kid and I guess it's good to see its still around. CBS News report that it's carving a niche for itself in the technological age.

The Colorful Building Blocks Seem To Have Been Around Forever And Still Try To Keep Customers Happy. I used to love this kit as a kid and I guess it's good to see its still around. CBS News report that it's carving a niche for itself in the technological age.

It's that daft season again when normally staid employees get to let their hair down at annual office parties. A few red faces are becoming a thing of the past though. As The Independent (again) reports, the behaviour is getting much more attention now - thanks to YouTube and its ilk. Yo Ho Ho.

An extensive piece from the Independent newspaper on the huge wealth of ndividuals in Britain. Telling at a time when the divide between rich and poor has become totally out-of-synch with the notion of civilisation.

The title says it all. A real potpourri.

Okay, so who's bothered about OJ Simpson? Well - most of the gutter media it seems! That includes Rupert Murdock's media empire and the bad reception was a sign of his failing judgement. Own up? Not likely - just sack someone high profile and carry on regardless.

Trust NYT to report this as an item of distress for skiers. Affluent western pleasues are not the issue. The planet tallest mountain range is melting away and that's more water to add into the ecosystem and rising sea levels.

Dramatic figures and cause for concern. This is in Blair's Britain!

Talking of turkeys, the prime preacher coninues to run around trying to do all the things he didn't get around to furing the last decade. Europe made it pretty clear this week that Turkey's entry to the EU would be put on hold a while, so once again Blair is pissing against the wind. More alarming still is that he appears desparate to go down in history trying to settle the problem with the Israeli occupation of Palestine. Bad enough that it is far too late in his premiership for him to make any real impact. Worse still that his hasty and superficial meddling could just make matters worse for the credibility of his sucessors.

Pretty darned scary. Just because it's a convention amonst carnivores doesn't mean you have to promote it. Slaughter of turkeys is hardly a seasonal pursuit any more, but the real offense is that such diatribe could come from this writer.

As millions of people start blogging each day, the democracy that is the internet becomes ever more broad. This survey suggests the phenomonem may be peaking - not so much the profusion of bloggers than the regularity of content.

This is the leading specialist comics publication here in the UK with all the latest news and views.

A retrospective by Paul Gravett on the comix magazine Escape. References Mal Burns and Pssst! magazine too.

A piece on 2nd wave feminism from In These Times

Some compelling images from an artist depicting treatment in Aby Grahib. Fine paintings with a highly destressing message.

The latest update to commentator Richard Neville's site with an open letter to Dubya, new links and art, plus more.

Freash from his adventures in custody in Turkey, this is artist Micheal Dickinson's gallery at th Saachi site. There;s also a link to his own new site

In the UK hemp is making a comeback in mainstream agriculture, casting off "hippie" associations with the female plant and offering a new future for strong fabrics, biofuels and a replacement for wood in paper manufacture. Amongst what seems to be a host of other applications. This report in the Guardian newspaper tells more.

TALES OF IRAQ WAR by Latuff is a wekly cartoon strip published as a blog from Brazil. Well worthy of a look.

A short piece and link at Op Ed for Amerikan citizens considering their exit strategies. Could be taken as a pinch or salt or in all seriousness - depending on your level of paranoia. It does raise some interesting points.