This week

www.peterrussell.com/Odds/WorldClock.php

World Clock … watch the world live and die, forests shrink and grow, in front of your eyes. Be amazed that the world makes more bicycles than computers…

www.spiked-online.com

Not for the fainthearted. Every idea you thought you understood is ruthlessly deconstructed … always surprising and makes you think.

www.lrb.co.uk

The London Review of Books is full of useful stuff. Latest nugget: the financial derivatives market (that is, not real money) is worth three times the value of the whole world economy – scary!

www.private-eye.co.uk

Pseud’s Corner and Colemanballs …

because there but for the grace of Lord Gnome go we all …