Here's a freeware program based on Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt's Oblique Strategies cards, designed to enhance problem solving. LinkDiscuss [Boing Boing] as they say anything by Brian Eno ... what's his brother Roger up to these days I wonder

at The Contemporary Wardrobe Collection Saturday May 10th – Sunday May 11th Opening hours 10-6 both days 2003 marks... [The Horse Hospital]

Analysts and pols are hemming and hawing about the propriety of Halliburton being given the oil industry of Iraq. Come on, this is too easy. Even if it had been put up for bid, Halliburton shouldn't have been considered because the vice-president was the CEO of the company before running for office. And it wasn't put up for bid, they just gave the contract to Halliburton. Here's strike three -- they still haven't found any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. This is a scandal. [Scripting News]

Brickfields is the new site from the Exploratory. The main body of the site is for anybody interested in Hackney from Roman times to the present day. In addition there are two sections aimed at family learning; Homes through Time and Victorian Hackney. These are for adults and children to learn together and they contain activities and games.

In the worldwide search mission for foreign terrorists, U.S. forces have stumbled on the amazing discovery of a once thought to be fantasy land, called Whoville and have labelled it as a threat to world peace. [hard to be humble] (with an interpretation by Dr. Zoos)

George Wyle, who also co-wrote the Christmas classic "The Most Wonderful Time of the Year" has died, for the tune click here. Anyone born as long ago as me probably remembers sitting down to learn about the ragtag-bunch lost on an island in the pacific aboard The Minnow. Theme tunes like this and the Beverly Hillbillies were learned and sung by kids then like the rap to Fresh Prince is now. I am told that in America you can always find it running somewhere on some channel. The Minnow would be lost! here's the lyrics and there's even a Bob Denver website [hard to be humble]

People who fall behind on their mortgage repayments are at risk of becoming seriously ill, say doctors. [BBC News | UK] now they must be clever doctors!

Newcastle-Gateshead and Liverpool have emerged as the strongest contenders to be European capital of culture in 2008. [guardian regeneration news]

Three industrial cities have changed their image and pulled ahead of the pack in the battle to become European City of Culture 2008. [guardian regeneration news]

Don Petit spends a Saturday morning off playing around with a piece of wire, a little water and some food coloring. Given that Petit is an astronaut on the Space Station, the results are surprising and fun to see. [Kuro5hin.org]

BBC Monitoring reports that what seems to be a CIA-backed radio station is regularly airing what sounds like Saddam Hussein rapping over Coolio's "Gangsta's Paradise." [Kuro5hin.org]