Stuff below the fold

for geeks only: TheOneRingNet has videos from ComicCon...talking about the Hobbit and what is WETA doing.

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Check out Lileks' new blog...
"...This blog covers everything except sports and gardening, unless we find a really good link about using dead professional bowlers for mulch..."

full of stuff like this one on the real Piccard...

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StrategyPage discusses C rations vs MRE's

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SenseOfEventsBlog notes that this is Tisha B'Av, and explains what it means.

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PrayersPoetryPraiseBlog has this poem about a trip to Lourdes:

Gazing at one tiny violet
Centres the mind
For at its heart
There is nothing but the radiating gold
Of life's promise

One flower is enough
To bring down from heaven
The rain of the future
The light of tomorrow

To produce
More violets
More flowers
For the crown of glory.