Adriana Cronin at Samizdata was on Sky News talking about blogging. 

Paul Harris reveals the casual racism of America's middle class. 

Folder Brander lets you easily label your folders with text and colours. Pretty! 

Cool postage stamps! Britain have had some neat stamps recently - 'Winter animals' - lots of sabre-tooths and so on. The full set of American computer ones are here. 

This story passed me by, but it's important. The EU want to regulate online video content in the same way they do broadcast TV. 

Dave wants a SF BloggerCon this June. We need a London one this summer also. 

Ed Brayton has a good takedown of the claim by the DI that they are a secular, non-partisan think tank. 

Techdirt: "It's been proven time and time again that filters don't work -- so, again, why not use the time and resources spent on these filters and tracking kids' ways around them on teaching critical thinking and good judgment instead?" 

Dave, try Parallels Workstation. It's a superb piece of software which needs only a few little fixes to make it a perfect drop-in replacement for my PC in all but a few instances. 

The KISS-inspired "Lordi" are representing Finland at Eurovision this year playing heavy metal and wielding a chain-saw. That should liven things up a tad. 

I'm running Parallels on OS X now. Very cool to have XP sitting there in the background. My main peeve though is the lack of pass-through virtualisation of graphics processing. Once that happens, my Mac is goin' to LAN parties, baby.