While Jordon Cooper moves his blog over to a new platform and sort of takes a break, Mark Morris has reappeared to help keep a friends blog going.

Lee Ann Millinger responds to FutureMargins blogging rant with with some positive and realistic reasons why we get to read her work. (29.05.03)

The Upward Way Press certainly didn’t minch words.

The Heresy has a lot of positive reasons he is blogging.

signposts also picks up on this theme and the questions LivingRoom and I raised about gender.

I think it is healthy to take a look at our hobbies every once in awhile and evaluate. My reasons for blogging haven’t changed since my first posts explored my place here, some of my priorities have. I think that is part of the growth process most bloggers go through.

Cre8d’s gallery of bloggers has been like a party of celebration of this medium. I think the signpost chats are also a celebration. It isn’t about ego, it’s about common ground and online connecting, and some fun is way overdue.
signposts is hosting another chat this week. Enjoy!

WMD
WMD’s have been found 50 miles from Washington, near Fort Detrick in the Maryland countryside. Apparently someone buried these biological vials and no one has the paperwork. 2 thousand pounds of hazardous waste has been cleaned up so far at the base.

Spinsanity looks at the Iraq war, and some of the myths and misconceptions.

Asthma
Clorine used in swimming pools has been found to contribute to the alarming rate of asthma, especially in children.

Most frightening of all: The children who swam most frequently had protein levels of the kind found in regular smokers.

Protein levels even rose measurably among people who had been sitting at the poolside and had not been swimming.

“The increasing exposure of chlorination products in indoor pools might be an important cause of the rising incidence of childhood asthma and allergic disease in industrialized countries,” say the scientists, led by Alfred Bernard, a toxicologist at Catholic University of Louvain in Brussels.

The effects were the same for children wherever they lived, and remained after other environmental pollutants were accounted for.

SARS
The wealthy are going to extraordinary lengths to protect themselves from SARS.

And why the federal and provincial medical people argue over numbers and the definition of probable cases, over 5 thousand people are in quarantine in Toronto.

Bruce Almighty
In the movie, God summons Bruce with a phone number on his pager.
Usually movies use a 555 number, but people across the US are getting phone calls from the movies fans, who put their own area code in front of the movie number.

A woman in Pinellas Park, Fla., has threatened to sue the movie studio because of the 20 calls per hour clogging her cell phone. A Colorado radio network was getting dozens a day Wednesday, five days after the movie hit theaters, and is planning to build a contest around the phenomenon.

In Sanford, N.C., the listing belongs to a church whose minister is actually named Bruce. And he is not amused.

There are 30 numbers in the US that match the movie number.

Bye bye Mouse
Technology is being developed that will render the computer mouse obsolete.

Starbucks
So this is why you can’t take a picture in a Starbucks store.