I’m letting Rex Murphy have the last word on this blog about the One Billion dollar gun registry, because in his Globe and Mail column he says things like:
We must be very, very grateful that those who own guns have better aim than those who want to control guns. The combined brainpower and foresight of [...]

Would be bloggers, new bloggers and experienced bloggers can glean a great deal from this excellent two part series on the genre from elearnspace.org.
Part One covers:
Introduction
What is blogging?
Uses for blogging
Benefits
Implications
Part Two gets into:
Getting Started
Examples
How to blog
Tools for blogging
Extending blogs - aggregating
Conclusion.
Blogs may Pierce the fogs of War
This Forbes article wonders if blogs may be to [...]

The actual title is The 3rd Annual 20 Worst People, Places, And Things On The Internet For 2002 from John Hawkins of Right Wing News.
#20 is celebrity web sites:
I’m so tired of celebrity websites. In fact, I’ve yet to ever see a really good one. They tend to be boring and sparsely updated and [...]

The federal justice minister has withdrawn a proposal to spend another $72 million on the government’s costly and controversial gun-control registry.
Martin Cauchon has withdrawn a proposal to hold a parliamentary vote on the issue Thursday evening as many Liberal backbenchers threatened to vote with the opposition.
Ottawa. Hello. The gun registry was put in place [...]

Every IKEA store in the Netherlands is closed after police found bombs in two of the 10 stores.
All Ikea stores in the country have been closed, and the police have also closed sections of motorways nearby because of the threat of more bombs, creating huge traffic jams during rush hour.
IKEA is a Swedish company with [...]

Ranting and Roaring explains to people that are not of the Canuck persuasion, what we mean when we say ‘east of’ or home, or ‘easterners’.
When a person from Western Canada says “the East”, he means “Ontario”, and sometimes “Ontario and Quebec”, worthwhile geography seemingly running out somewhere a few hundred kilometers east of Montreal. When [...]

Colby Cosh is wondering where all the British bloggers are. It’s been a pet peeve of mine behind the scenes for months now. Where are they? Cosh states his case well, and I am in agreement.
Bene Diction Blogs On has been visited by 55 countries. The largest referrer other than the portal is a great [...]

There have been generous responses to the new blog look. You’ll never convince me that blogging isn’t a community endeavor and a common passion.
Here are a few emails of the I received.
Colby Cosh:
The design is lovely. I hope you can get it to work reliably with IE
browsers because there basically aren’t any other [...]