And with this morning's dropping of the writ, CTV has unveiled its election site.

Yes, there will be blogging there.

If you want to revisit the polling "fiasco" of 2004, and why it could happen again, read my feature.

The Beeb's backgrounder on Central Asia's 'stans' -- Kazakhstan, Kyrgystan, Tajikstan, Uzbekistan, and my personal favourite -- Turkmenistan! (there's also a complete Central Asia indepth page.)

I would like to visit Turkmenistan and North Korea back-to-back, just to see which one is the weirder cult-of-personality state.

A former Texan, raised on a ranch and and a one-time hunter, is the new editor of Harper's Magazine, the erudite, foundation-supported journal of ideas.

Ah, the dark side of citizen journalism: You do the work, we keep all the rights and profit. This Media Guardian article airs complaints about the Telegraph in the UK with respects to rights-grabbing.

Club soda and tonic water come in similar-looking containers and are in fact similar-looking fluids. However, they taste quite different.

Make sure your literacy skills are sufficient to distinguish between the labeling describing the two different products.

If they are not, swallow your pride and ask a clerk for assistance. Otherwise, you might find yourself swallowing tonic water when in fact you wanted club soda.

This BBC interactive is predicated on the fact that 12 Latin American countries will be having elections between November and the end of 2006.

Find it here.

The European Union's top justice official has issued a warning that any member state found to be hosting a secret CIA jail could lose its voting rights.

Opposition MPs, mainly the Bloc Quebecois, have been pestering the government about possible CIA-linked flights in Canada.