Day December 5, 2005

If the net seems slow today,

The Internet Reachability Report currently shows many nodes completely down. This is highly unusual. A friend at a small ISP says spam may be the problem. A few months ago they got 45,000 emails a day and 4,000 were not…

Ford embraces homophobia

Breaking: United front of every single national gay civil rights group calls on Ford for urgent meeting. The nuance will probably be missed by Ford, but you can NEVER get all of these groups to sign on to the same…

Rice denies torture allegations

The US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has denied allegations that America has been flying terror suspects around the world to torture them. Dr Rice confirmed that the US had long participated in the movement of terror suspects between countries…

Global warming protests

More than 100,000 people took to the streets in more than 30 countries Saturday, in the first world-wide demonstration to press for action to combat global warming. The marches – timed to put pressure on the most important international climate…