Politricks: With the continuing trend of shows like Fear Factor and Survivor, any day now CNN is going to introduce Extreme Crossfire. But forget Tucker and his bowties, it'll be more like, "On the left, Pol Pot and Josef Stalin, on the right, Adolf Hitler and Augusto Pinochet." Which begs the question: if you take, say, Jack Layton's politics and make them extreme, do you get Stalin? Not at all, says Political Compass, a site sent in by Networthy operative Pluty. Take a quiz that plots your political colours on a 2-D grid instead of the hacky right-left line that activists and Fox News like to bludgeon us with at http://politicalcompass.org.

Message bored: If you're the type of person with more enthusiasm than common sense and you have the urge to participate in message boards on the Internet, this brief educational film will teach you what you need to be a productive citizen. Yes, it's funny too at www.trials-shack.co.uk/posting.html.

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