1. Part II of the interview with ank, the creator of the Theory of Eight

'... The important thing about the Landscape is the continuity. It is a field of connected activities. People on the Landscape don't like jumps and discontinuities. They like to see a visible connection between the adventure and the settled, between the question and the result. They like to see the workings out step-by-step of the problem advancing towards its solution. Think of the analogy of surveying a terrain. The method is to connect each point and region with its neighbour, gradually moving from one known point to the next. I can illustrate this with something that occurred in the New World. When settlers gradually began to push their way inland, carving out their farms, not every square meter of the terrain was cleared. Much of it between cleared sections remained hidden under dense woods, and the shape of the land beneath the woods remained an unknown. As the surveyed boundaries of occupied farms spread out from the coast, sometimes the boundaries of farms didn't quite meet up because of the unknown stretches of terrain between them. These sections of land were essentially free, and were squatted in. They were known as 'found farms'. I know a writer who used to live in one in Connecticut...'

2. Best Partners

It's been estimated that there are about 8 million singles in the UK between the ages of 18 and 64. Dating agencies have blossomed in recent years to help people get together. While meeting up with more people is a good tactic in trying to find the partner who is right for you, the problem of how to evaluate these contacts remains. Clients of these systems have no compulsion to tell the truth about themselves. In fact these agencies encourage deception since there is no cross-referencing to others who know you. So while you may get more dates and more fun out them, which is good, finding a best partner may be more difficult. On the TO8 web site you can find instead, the series of birth dates that produces your best partners.

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3. The US Presidential Democratic Candidate John Kerry.

Can he win against Bush?

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4. Web logs: The Hutton Enquiry and David Kelly's death.

I have been analysing personality for so long that perhaps I have lost sight of a basic social etiquette. When the tragedy of Dr. Kelly unfolded in the media and things were said about his state of mind, I thought the papers could do with a personality profile of the man. Perhaps I could reveal whether he was likely to be a Walter Mitty character or whether he was likely to respond to the stress of the position in which he had found himself by committing suicide.

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5. The Jade Suit.

The creator of the TO8's latest publication. An epic poem on Taoism and the history of China, it is published by Gravity Publishing, in a quality paperback edition containing seven illustrations from Chinese painting and drawing through the ages as well as textual notes and background information.

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