James Lileks has another brilliant Bleat up. This one is short, but touching.

After a long hiatus due to technical problems and server meltdowns Tacitus is back. (That is if he survives the Instalanche that’s now hammering his poor server…)

Being the news junkie that I am, amphetaDesk is rapidly becoming my favorite way to get a fix. It’s an open-source news aggregator that collects the XML feeds from sites like this one and automatically dumps the summaries to a webpage for you. In essence, it surfs every blog and news site you feed to it, and presents all the latest stories in a regularly updated brief.

I’ve tried news aggregators before, but this one has the advantage of being free and very easy to use, which is why I feel the need to shamelessly plug it on the site.

Dr. Pepper is trying to use weblogs for viral marketing in an effort to launch a new milk-based drink called "Raging Cow".

Needless to say, I’m not interested. I’m lactose intolerant. (However, if Dr. Pepper would like to cough up some moolah from their corporate coffers and deposit it in my tipjar, I might change my mind…)

Congratulations to National Review Online’s Jonah Goldberg on the birth of his daughter Lucy Tighe Goldberg.

I give her a matter of weeks before she’s posting on the Corner…

The Daily Kos goes out on a limb and criticizes anti-war protestors. Now I find myself disagreeing with Kos on quite a few things, but it’s quite refreshing to see that there’s someone against the war who doesn’t feel the need to resort to some ridiculous public spectacle to get their points across. As he says:

I just wish saner, more mainstream heads wrestled control of the movement. Right now it’s too easy to dismiss anti-war protesters and their organizers as far-left kooks. They look the part and act the part. And I don’t want to be associated with that crowd in any way.

If I were on the anti-war side of this issue, I wouldn’t blame him.

The Spoons Experience has left the building.

Damn.

Check out the work of Cobb, another stripcreator.com comicblogger. He’s got a sense of irreverent humor that’s a perfect fit for the comicblogging meme…

UPDATE: This one is pure gold…

Since everyone else is doing it, I figured I’d enter the comicblogging scene.

I’m rather pleased with the first results…

Sorry… I couldn’t resist. If you’re so inclined, you can also caption this image.