Two months after a 7.6 magnitude earthquake hit the Pakistan-Kashmir area a woman has been found alive in rubble.

The October quake killed nearly 75 thousand people and 3 million remain homeless.

40 year old Naqsha Bibi was found alive in the collapsed remains of her home December 10th.
Her story here.

The founder of Christian Peacemaker Teams, Gene Stoltzfus has started a blog.
A round up of Quaker, Brethern and Mennonite blogs can be found at nonviolence.org, as well as updated news on the four hostages in Iraq.

This is funny/sad.

The South Bruce Penisular owner got a phone call from an upset person at a Canadian regional newspaper called Shoreline Beacon. The upset editor told the website owner using search results were copyright infringement and to cease and desist.

Can she give me an example?

“$5 parking at the hospitals”
… say what? We have no [...]

Good title from Below the Fold.

Gary Goldhammer looks back at the initial glee of bloggers, (given the number still coming online I think that glee is still present). This well done post is US-centric, simply because most countries and their blog trends, including Canada, are not through Goldhammer’s First age.

The First Age of blogging – [...]

According to Newsmax known deaths from hurricane Katrina were not overwhelming black Americans.

St. Gabriel Parish morgue is the primary facility handling known dead from the hurricane.
The morgue results can be found here.

883 bodies have been processed and 48% are black Americans, 2% are Hispanic, 41% are white and 8% are unknown.

The ratio of dead males [...]

Why does President Bush hope Christmas comes a little late this year? Because on Jan. 23, Canada may elect the most pro-American leader in the Western world. Free-market economist Stephen Harper, leader of the opposition Conservative Party, is pro-free trade, pro-Iraq war, anti-Kyoto, and socially conservative. Move over Tony Blair: If elected, Mr. Harper will [...]