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Here’s a list of (most of) the books I read during 2003:

Inventing a Nation – Gore Vidal
The Trial of Henry Kissinger – Christopher Hitchens
911 – Noam Chomsky
Chomsky and Globalisation – Jeremy Fox
Profit Over People – Noam Chomsky
Pirates and Emperors – Noam Chomsky

The Last Empire – Gore Vidal
Globalization and its discontents – Joseph Stiglitz
The Art of War – Sun Tzu (Shambhala edition)
Introducing Marx
Introducing Islam
Stupid White Men – Mike Moore
The New Rulers of the World – John Pilger
End Game – Scott Ritter
The Great War – Correlli Barnett

Happy new year folks, I’m off to Brussels for a few days….

Anyone know of any sites that have large collections of the designs on snowboards? A pretend chocolate fish to anyone who can send me cool links.

I found this, which has some funky old boards; and this one, which was the closest thing to what I was looking for, all though not exactly what I had in mind.

I was looking at the Sims site and they have some great designs (check out Montoya, Fader, and my fav, Sedition). You can get some of these as wallpaper for your ‘puter. Nice use of Flash too.

If you are a regular visitor to bucketFountain, you may be aware the bulk of the links to other sites open in a new window. If you were to hover over the link prior to activating it, you will see the title tag displays “Link opens in a new window”. I use this technique so that there are no surprises. I realise that this pisses some people off.

If you use Moz, you can always hold down ctrl whist clicking and the link will open in a new tab in the background. If you use IE you do not have this functionality, but you can use shift and the link will open in a new window regardless, although it will not be in the background. I may move away from this in the future, and then leave it to the user/user agent to determine what they do with links.

In fact, if I can remember, I will do it from this day forth.

Talk about exotic destinations for your holidays. My friend Paul has just left Iraq after spending a few days there, including a soiree to Baghdad. He had to do a bit of fast talking to get across the border, but found people to be friendly and helpful on the whole. “Only when I saw 2 Apaches fly over me this afternoon did it start to hit home exactly where I am!!” Crazy kiwi….

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. – Theodore Roosevelt

Saddam captured – the promise of ‘justice’ being served to this tyrant may cause many not to consider the double standards and hypocrisy represented by this action.

I heard on the news a surprised British interviewer saying that Saddam’s trial might be held in Iraq. Why was he surprised? Saddam did nothing to Britain or the US until they attacked him. His trial should be an Iraqi affair – the Iraqi people have suffered more than the Iranians or Kuwatis, and certainly more than the US and the UK. In the mean time when will Cheney / Rumsfeld / Kissinger et al be tried for their crimes?

We all know the atrocities that Saddam committed against the Kurds, but why is there so little condemnation of Turkish raids against the same people?

There are too few ‘good-guys’ in this saga – it’s not a simple matter of one side being ‘right’. I hope that more people realise this and can condemn the crimes of anyone, regardless of what side they’re on.