Daily Links - 07/07/2004

I got tired of chasing plumbing faults in SimCity 3000, and, in any case, I achieved my goal of a million sim population. Back to surfing the net:

• Blogosphere vs. Usenet See also this.
• Paid search engine inclusion coming to an end
• Laurie Mylroie, conspiracy crackpot and warmonger [via On Lesotho]
• The story behind the new Nandos a campaign [via Cherryflava]
• US medical professionals who refuse contraception to patients
• Why John Kerry chose John Edwards
• America faces shortage of VINs [via Anil Dash]
• Gene Expression has lots of new posts to wade through
• Wired on Mozilla extensions
• The big news story around here is the Diepsloot riots. Frankly, I'm surprised that this sort of thing doesn't happen more often. Here's a story by a reporter who got a little too close to the action.