English being a de facto international language, as has been thoroughly pointed out, might be something to start with. Simplified Technical English, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S..., is used by various government agencies to remove some of the ambiguity of English. While it and similar efforts may or may not be sufficient as an everyday language, it is an idea to consider.

You should also include these sites as a source of ideas and to see some of what has already been done, http://conlang.org/, http://omniglot.com/

I have been with GoDaddy for over 10 years now. I have quite a few domains registered with them and a CentOS 6 Linux VM, which I ssh into and do pretty much whatever I want. I haven't had any problems with them at all. Not to say that problems don't exist, just that it is possible to have a good experience with GoDaddy--I have also only called their support a couple times in the last 10 years, so that might be part of the reason for the lack of bad experiences.

I also agree about having hosting services with a separate provider for all of the reasons given here. Yea, I am breaking that rule, but the VM hosting was an afterthought and just something to play with.

I haven't gone through them myself, but does anyone know how Khan's videos are on Physics and Astronomy?

Wow! I didn't know the IRS had personal email servers on every individuals personal computer, where all copies of a persons email sent and retrieved is kept and deleted from everywhere else.

The rest of us just use shared central email servers where multiple copies of everyone's email is kept, backed up daily. Boy, are we out of touch with reality!

"Since the opposing side is so badly misinformed, those of us who want the internet to remain open to innovation and freedom of expression have to help educate them before the debate can really be held."

HA! That will never happen.