Steve Rubel has found Feeds That Matter, a project from the University of Maryland which analyses the RSS feeds which Bloglines users are subscribed to and built some neat tools on top of it. 

Bryan Appleyard has a bloody long piece on whether Britain should declare itself a secular country. The answer is obvious: "of course it bloody well should". 

You lost your black video iPod on United Airlines earlier this month? If so, it's blogosphere lost and found time. A video iPod should contain a fair bit of statistically significant information on it (ie. music) to prevent false positives. 

Nutcases have moved in to the street where my dad used to work. Oh my, how tenants change.  

No, Mr. Johnson, faith schools are not the key to reducing tension. Faith schools are the problem, and the first problem is that an atheist shouldn't be forced to subsidise the Christian education of another person's child. 

Andy Budd has a list of habits you ought to develop if you want to be a highly successful freelance web designer. 

Le Web 3 registration has just opened (that's what used to be called Les Blogs, but blogs aren't that cool any more). I so badly want to go, I just can't justify the 300 euro registration fee. (Via TechCrunch UK) 

I've just published a fairly crappy hReview profile for hKit. Please, tell me where it's wrong. 

Also, the Open University are joining the XML-o-sphere by releasing Open CourseWare-style content. Now we need a few more universities here to dance the XML game. 

Apparently, I'm enabling attention transactions. Woohoo!