There's a lot of buzz in the ISP industry in the UK at the moment regarding unmetered access. Supanet are offering an unmetered access trial where they pay you.

Bizarre - a LEGO Machine Gun capable of firing 500 rounds per minute.

After IE5 constantly crashing NT, I switched back to Netscape - when it crashes it only takes down itself. Now I am getting tired of it gobbling up CPU cycles whenever I stop typing for a few seconds. So, methinks I'll give Opera a go.

Ooh, ooh, ooh! Gotta have one of these.

Incidentally, I'm pretty impressed with Opera. Its really fast. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to fully support javascript, so I'm still doing my blogging from Netscape.

Bubblegun produces yet another brilliant Culture Pop, this week on jokes.

An interesting article on Salon about broadband access to the internet, which raises good points about internet use in general.

Found this in monthly magazine PC Pro - Hotmail decided that the last name 'De Groot' contained a reserved or illegible word, and that he should select another - having your name changed just to use Hotmail seems a little drastic.

Article on Wired about Lucent acheiving a transmit rate over fibre optic cable of 3.28 terabits per second entitled "Net Speed Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet."

Again, this comes courtesy of PC Pro, a reference to a site that documents hidden Windows 95 APIs, which includes, among other things, some documentation of shell32.dll and how to get your hands on system image lists. Quite a find.

This is of some personal interest to me, as I used to live in Dunfermline - The Register is reporting a rumour that the white elephant that is the Hyundai plant on the outskirts of Dunfermline may be sold off to Intel.

CNET is carrying a story on Cool Japanese Gadgets You Can't Have.

This site just has to be tried - it's aptly called Everything.

Referenced on rOD.log, this really is an incredible site. It allows you to create and manipulate models constructed from masses and springs, which can pulse like muscles - Constructor.

Pudding Guy.

Have a web page pitied by Mr. T.

More stories on the UK's comedy secret services.

This reminds me of a university project I took part in where we plugged two AI programs together to see how their conversation ended up - Interview with the Search Engine

Nationwide missing the point quite spectacularly.

Emergency - where can I find the nearest pub?