Make-Believe Maverick : Rolling Stone on McCain

Very cool.

Quoted: Get a radically different view of your world with these images, where countries are depicted by demographics, not size.

Worldwide undersea internet cable routes.

Quoted: Police in China have discovered a factory taking orders for the flag of the Tibetan government-in-exile.

Quoted: Dangling horizontally out of a skyscraper, this hovering figure looks set to fall to his doom.

the internets made me do it

Quoted: An Australian farmer kidnapped in Mali after falling for an internet scam tells the BBC about his ordeal.

Good BBC overview of the "cheery coup".

Quoted: Well, they didn't just tolerate it, they welcomed it with open arms. Mr Thaksin was the most popular political leader in recent Thai history, the first to win an outright majority in parliament. And yet the troops who had forced him out were cheered and festooned with flowers. What on earth was going on?

Wonderful... fail to clear out your old computer and it ends up in Nigeria where of course they scrape it for financial information.

Classic.

Quoted: The bank details of Britons are being accessed from old PCs sent to Nigeria, the BBC's Real Story programme discovers.