Ophelia has dug out a great little ditty from literary critic Terry Eagleton, who seems quite happy to dismiss Dawkins on the basis of an unfounded 'suspicion'. Greeeeat mind at work here, folks, keep well away! Just so you know, Eagleton is an ex-Catholic. Perhaps a few 'heartfelt' feelings for the old mother Church, instead of 'brainfelt' thoughts are at work. 
Gliffy is a Web 2.0 diagram editor. It looks like you could use it for UML. It's also extremely pretty - and has a Collaborate mode just like Writely and other online office applications. What's interesting for me is that I never really use "Office" applications any more. There's a long tail in applications - and it's the things in the long and mid tail that have value for me, not the big generic applications like Word and Excel. Gliffy is an extremely well-produced application - and is exactly why you should pay attention to Web 2.0!
Dan Zambonini has a post on why you should love Web 2.0. 
Bruce Sterling: "We teenagers have to live in "controlled spaces". Radio-frequency ID tags, real-time locative systems, global positioning systems, smart doorways, security videocams. They "protect" us kids, from imaginary satanic drug dealer terrorist mafia predators. We're "secured". We're juvenile delinquents with always-on cellphone nannies in our pockets. There's no way to turn them off."
Great snakes (not on a plane)! 
Today's a "nothing serious" day (since in the last week, I've written about paedophile priests, organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners, shit-eating train company regulations and homophobic evangelical dipshits and if I continue journalling their absurdity, I'll go mad). Instead, let's look at Tintin - one of the better creations of the Belgians.
So, the first link? Tintin cars. A gallery of cars from the Tintin comics matched up with photos of the real cars. (Via Link Machine Go).
This article picks up on this: "Herge was a great fan of the National Geographic magazine. His exquisite closed-line renderings of scenes are often derived from photos in that magazine: a temple in Kathmandu, a street scene in Shanghai, near the Great Pyramids in Egypt or atop the white cliffs of Dover. These drawings show great skill and attention to detail; if one sees a car in Tintin, one can be sure that, right down to the very tall lights and chrome details, it is some particular make, year and model"
Unfortunately, the Wikipedia article entitled "List of exclamations used by Captain Haddock" was deemed too politically incorrect for Wikipedia - instead, check one of these lists - or a list of original French insults is also available, as is a Captain Haddock insult generator script. (Thanks to Boing Boing for the link).
Every adventurer occasionally needs to change in to a disguise or special outfit - usually to fool someone. Tintin did so more than a handful of times, and here is an index of those disguises.
Continuing the 'list' theme - the operatic diva Bianca Castafiore has a list of her own, detailing the many times she can't say Captain Haddock's name.
My favourite link has to be this review of a book by Tom McCarthy called 'Tintin and the Secret of Literature' - which attempts to use Barthesian and other literary theory ideas to uncover Tintin's real nature. Apparently, Captain Haddock is a counterfeit aristocrat and Situationist prankster. And as for Bianca Castafiore - well, in the interest of family values, you'll have to read that for yourself. If you are under the illusion that literary theory is in any way meaningful, the above link may prove useful.
