I’m off for awhile, should be back by the weekend, in addtion to the great blogs on the sidebar, there are approximately 7 million others online to check out.:^) Blog on!

At the click of a mouse we can be anywhere we want to be on the world wide web.
It’s a bit like those foolish news crawlers that have become standard on 24 hour news channels. The talking head may be soberly informing us about how many people died in the train derailment in Japan. We [...]

The UN World Food Program has designed a PC/Mac game for children and adults called Food-Force.
The gamers have six missions. Residents of an island named Sheylan are displaced by drought, hunger and civil war.
Mission one: Food assessment. The gamer takes to the air to assess how many people need food and the quickest way [...]

I decided to go into the extreme tracker (globe on sidebar) and pick blog visitors by random leaping through the log.
IdeaJoy has The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy Adventure game link.
The Thinklings Jared has a post up called Voracious – how many books have you read in the past year?
reverend mommy’s random thoughts has [...]

Life as I know it is backwards.
While Ian’s Messy Desk is busy doing this – I’ll be a couple of provinces away looking at this.

Well, sort of. The snow without the leaves or the blossoms. Some of the winter snow we had hasn’t melted yet, ice hasn’t melted off the lakes, trees are barely budding [...]

The Telegraph is accusing the BBC of planting hecklers in a Conservative meeting last week.
And the BBC admits they gave three people microphones.
Last night, the BBC claimed that the exercise was part of a “completely legitimate programme about the history and art of political heckling” and said that other parties’ meetings were being “observed”. [...]

Beliefnet has a great title and slogan for it’s blogs.

Jane Taber has an interesting background piece on what was going on yesterday in Ottawa.
Reporters were cranky and some Liberal MPs were so worried that one of their colleagues described them as looking as if they were in the “fetal position.”
The Tories were tense.
At a midday meeting in the National Press Theatre, Stephen Harper’s senior [...]