"Independent Days"
Part 1: On Mens Hairpieces and Web Design [Daypop Top 40] 
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The Mythical Quest , an old exhibition at the British Library. 'Throughout the world, tales have always been told of heroes and heroines embarking on perilous quests in search of lost loved ones, the secret of immortality, earthly paradise or simply great riches. Many of these stories have elements in common, such as clashes with monsters, battles with the elements, interventions by the gods and tests of moral character, mental cunning and physical strength. These tales have been expressed in songs, literature, art and dance for thousands of years, and are still being reinterpreted today in books, comic strips, interactive games and adventure films.'
More British Library exhibits here, from early Indian photography to the secret life of maps.
Examples of mythical quests :- Monkey: Journey to the West (another version here, not to mention the TV series); the Ramayana (and the Ramakian, the Thai version); Cupid and Psyche at the Classics Pages (subject of a previous thread); the Holy Grail (more at the Catholic Enyclopaedia); the journey of Alexander the Great; Pilgrim's Progress and John Bunyan; the world of Dante and a map of Hell. [MetaFilter] 
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John Palfrey: "The Net could indeed be the wide-open, lawless paradise some of us once imagined." [Scripting News] 
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"Winds of Change.NET: July 9 Carnival of the Liberties" [Daypop Top 40] 
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The rest of the story..... The "google bomb" joke on the 404 on the Weapons of Mass Destruction is being fairly widely distributed around the... [Teal Sunglasses] 
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Hackers Hijack PC's for Sex Sites. More than a thousand unsuspecting Internet users have recently had their computers hijacked by hackers, who are using them to display pornographic Web sites. By John Schwartz. [New York Times: Technology] 
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Google AdWords Built for Nano Publishers.
Blogger News
Because I now live in Australia and wish to get more visitors from Australia visiting my site, I have made a study of how to build local traffic for Microdoc News. The web is a network, and therefore the project is to tap into the network within Australia, where Australian net visitors are, to then provide links to Microdoc News. After studying the local Australian scene, the only major traffic that can be obtained is through Google. Google provides good local traffic from both the ordinary 'free' listings, but more importantly from Google AdWords. Google Adwords is built for Nano Publishers like myself. It is the only 'put a credit card in the slot and advertise' service available. [Elwyn Jenkins: MicrodocHeadlines] 
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Outsider Blogs Paint Bosnian Life. Interns working in Bosnia are using their blog journals to call attention to Bosnian families with stories of everyday experiences. The interns are with Bosfam, an advocacy organization supporting displaced Bosnian women and refugees. By Katie Dean. [Wired News] 
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classic comicbook covers. comic book guy says, "best comic book cover site, ever." [MetaFilter] 
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Needle in a Haystack.

Haystack. Haystack, the universal information client. Errr, help. This is looking very much like what I need, but wrapping it up in a client side only app is not going to work. Mind you, after five years of writing web apps, I can honestly understand why they went with a client side app. Writing web apps is a PITA. Anyways, I must read the papers, the docs, and download this sucker. [Brett Morgan's Insanity Weblog Zilla]

This looks interesting.

[Curiouser and curiouser!] 
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Justin Hall, in reporting on the First International Moblogging Conference held in Tokyo the other day: "All the fun of posting pictures from phones is a polite rehearsal for the incredible social upheaval that moblogging could bring or join." [Corante: Corante on Blogging] 
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Everything About Everywhere. Nation Master An amazing resource that displays all sorts of comparative national statistics on practically everything, and with an option of selecting any region / list of countries you choose. It plugs itself as "The world's biggest general stat site" (which might or might not be true I don't know), and it has a wealth of data on economics, sports, population, geography and a dozen more categories. Some interesting statistics; Top 100 in Olympic medals per Capita. Top 100 Murders with firearms (per capita). Top 100 Military Expenditures as a percent of GDP . Top 100 Net migration rate .
A heaven for data freaks. [MetaFilter] 
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