The Observer should know better. This article takes Alan Alford's debunking of the Atlantis myth and manages to drag in the Velikovskian lunacy by claiming it has long been acknowledged that "there is strong scientific evidence for the explosion of one or more planets in our solar system from about 427 to 347BC". I need hardly point out that this is total bollocks...

Via Plokta News Network, the news that Google's usenet news archive now goes back twenty years... I guess I'll be zapping up links to assorted ancient posts from time to time, now.

From the Guardian, Will Hutton on the long game the US is playing to keep the EU weak by encouraging it to enlarge prematurely: If Europe takes on too much we will all lose...

Following on from earlier Register articles, here's a Windows hack for Web-surfing privacy...

Hmmm... I'm finally appearing in the recently updated list from the GBlogs Gateway.

Now, will this inspire me to get my finger out a little more often? Probably not, as the main limiting condition has been being snowed under, work-wise.

Again from The Reg: Internet anonymity for Windows power users. Looks useful.

From The Register: No-HTML plug-in for Outlook available. Not that I use Outlook, but...