Supplementary links for December 07, 2003: (Subscribe: RSS / RDF)

• John Pilger writes about the role of the BBC in the reporting of the Iraq War. And who precisely are we supposed to believe? Contemporary debates over policy - for the most part - have few facts that a member of the public can independently verify...
• I'm too scared to play with the extra-fields functionality for MT - and I think I'll wait to see what MT Pro costs. In the meantime, however, if you are braver than I...
• An old idea of mine that roamed around the same geographical news aggregation areas as local-news.net. Why does no one ever listen to me?
• Dynamically generated local-news portal now has a slot for local webloggers (apparently it works worldwide)
• By this time next year, Tivo-style recording is going to be pretty much everywhere in the UK...
• Could this be the perfect Christmas present for one's mother?
• There's something vaguely unsettling about typing rm *.* into Google (which reminds me - don't go expecting any plasticbag.org redesign for a while, cos I accidentally deleted it)