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…is on April Winchell’s site. Especially recommended are the Hindi Abba covers from Salma & Sabina.

Fellow Webb School alum John Scalzi switched his blog over the MovableType which means: (drumroll) A RSS Feed!

(and thanks for the link)

Giant squids are no longer king. Make room for colossal squids!

This quote is terrific:

“Now we can say that it attains a size larger than the giant squid. Giant squid is no longer the largest squid that’s out there. We’ve got something that’s even larger, and not just larger but an order of magnitude meaner.”

I love the BBC’s size graphic on that article. “London Bus”… “Colossal squid”.

Pink Floyd’s audio engineer James Guthrie speaks out about how the just-released SACD surround sound mix of Dark Side Of The Moon came together.

Today’s required reading: Thom Hartmann’s essay, “When Democracy Failed: The Warnings of History“.

Go read it right now. I’ll wait.

The New York Freemasons are conducting a recruitment drive to increase their ever-dwindling membership. As part of the campaign, they’re offering a one-day class “compressing the rituals that could take a year to master.”

Via BBC. You may begin freaking out at T-minus 10… 9… 8… 7…

The World Health Organization expert who first identified the mystery pneumonia that has claimed dozens of lives has himself died of the disease, the UN agency has announced.

Dr Carlo Urbani, a 46-year-old Italian and an expert on communicable diseases, had identified Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in an American businessman admitted to hospital in Vietnam in February.

The WHO said Dr Urbani’s early detection of SARS had led to increased global surveillance, enabling the identification and the subsequent isolation of those with the disease to slow its spread.

At least 54 people are known to have died of the disease, and more than 1,400 people to be suffering from it.

Note that 1000 (that’s one thousand!) people are being quarantined.

Folks, I’m having massive DNS and DNS propagation problems right now. Expect basically nothing to work until… well until it starts working again.

Zany North Korean dictator Kim Jong Ill II has a weblog…

Today I was so depressed I wrote an opera. I want it to come out in the summer which means we have to start casting in the spring, which means I have to order the kidnappings like next week. I am so busy.

Dear diary. Bush still doesn?t ?get it.? I tried making my feelings clear but he?s too busy ignoring me, he is such a jerk. Everything in his life is just Saddam, Saddam, Saddam and I am sick of it.

On the plus side, I think my hair looked pretty good today. Also I went frolicking at Paektu Mountain and the rainbow came out again. After dinner some of my subjects sang me a song because I invented Outer Space

Choice quote from today’s news.

The US army’s senior ground commander in Iraq, General William Wallace, warned that long supply lines and Iraqi guerrilla-style tactics had reduced the chances of a swift military victory.

“The enemy we’re fighting is different from the one we’d war-gamed against,” he told The Washington Post, in comments reported to have caused some unease in the Pentagon.

So do they still have the receipt for that war game? It’s obvious they need to take it back.