From BostonHerald.com - the Edge: Dear diary ...Blogs let writers share their thoughts with the whole wired worldTalks about the pros and cons of blogs like LiveJournal ( Read more... )

There are bloggers from all corners of the world, now. Recently, a woman blogger in the Ukraine was giving daily reports of the beginning of the "Orange Revolution" that has helped Victor Yuschenko win the third round of the election for Prime Minister there.

Here is an interesting blog in Iraq:

Baghdad Girl

The day before yesterday a big bomb ( Read more... )

Check out this Transcript of Bush Press Conference.

Bush, the supposed mangler of the English language, uses the word "interlocutor" naturally in a conversation. ;-) Except in academic publications, I don't think I've ever seen the word used.

Merry Christmas, everyone!

---King Krull

Sean Gleeson - Jinkies, it's Murrow's Ghost!

Zoinks!!! The Scooby Doo kids solve the mystery of Ed Murrow's ghost that haunts the CBS News building. Check it out.

Amusing. My results:

You scored as Catholic. Welcome to the One, Holy, CATHOLIC, and Apostolic Church ( Read more... )

Tallahassee Democrat | 11/28/2004 | North Florida solidly red, recount shows

Since George W. Bush captured Florida and the White House again, critics have fixed their sights on northern pockets of the Sunshine State and asked: How did the Republicans win so heavily in counties stocked with Democrats? [... full article ...]

Looks like even those ( Read more... )

Nope, no virgins

Hilarious!!!

A satirical email aimed at liberals (or those liberals who hide behind the label "progressive") who are so distraught at Bush's victory that they have talked about emigrating to Canada:

• Canadians rib would-be US expatriates
  

MSNBC - Test your IQ on science fact and fiction

This is a fun quiz with some educational value. I got 10 out of 10.

The following is an interesting article. Some of you probably recall that there was a series of articles all over the news about how the Y-chromosome is decaying and headed for ultimate extinction. It appears that this view is not held by serious researchers in the field:

The notion of the Y sex chromosome as a genetic wasteland still entices ( Read more... )