Why Canadian blogs haven’t broken any political scandals.
But the fact remains that, in a year when American bloggers led major stories on both sides of the border and Canadian politics reached new levels of intrigue and animosity, political blogs in this country made little—if any—impact. McMillan places part of the blame on a disinterested public [...]

Your EQ is

120
50 or less: Thanks for answering honestly. Now get yourself a shrink, quick!
51-70: When it comes to understanding human emotions, you’d have better luck understanding Chinese.
71-90: You’ve got more emotional intelligence than the average frat boy. Barely.
91-110: You’re average. It’s easy to predict how you’ll react to [...]

In 1995 scientists took lung tissue from victims of the 1918 Spanish flu epidemic and began to rebuild the killer virus.
What they have found is amazing. And what they have discovered was it was an avian like flu that jumped to humans. While disturbing, the information will help the development of antiviral drugs and vaccines [...]

Out of Ur.
A new blog of conversations from the people who do Leadership Magazine.
via Dashhouse
Ur

Pete Townshend is blogging a novella - The Boy Who Heard Music.
Who is Pete Townshend?

This bout of pneumonia has taken a piece out of me I’m not getting back very well.
Today was a bad day, as in getting-up-on-the-wrong-side-of-the-bed-can’t- stand-my-own-company kind of day. My twin and I decided we needed some down time so we took off for a couple of hours.
Sherm immediately noticed my bad mood. Since I’d noticed [...]

A media study out of Ball State University says the average American spends 9 hours a day consuming TV, radio, cell phone time, music, and the internet.
Think about it.
9 hours.
What is that doing to us as creatures that need rest, community. relaxation and quiet time?
Most of that consumption is passive, with the exception of [...]

The more things change the more they stay the same.
The top 10 Web Design mistakes for 2005.
I wonder what the top 10 blog design mistakes would look like?
I have pet peeves about poor blog design, but they wouldn’t necessarily be mistakes.
I paid to have this blog designed and be user friendly because I can’t code [...]