The Guardian, apparently having some mischevious sorts behind the editorial controls, came out with a workaholism quizz that they published on a Friday -- like people need one more reason to gear down. :)

Former Flare editor Suzanne Boyd departed for the Big Apple last year to produce a new mid-market fashion magazine aimed at black women. It was called Suede.

Some links to an email discussion over the past 10 days or so between Jeff Jarvis of Buzzmachine and NYT executive editor Bill Keller.

Saw this first at Buzzmachine: Simon Waldman, director of digital publishing at the Guardian, finds the open-source news offerings of Wikinews to be wanting.

Novelist Lucian K. Truscott IV reminisces in the NYT about Hunter S. Thompson's struggling young days as a writer.

Herbert reviews the Arar case, where the Tunisian-born Canadian citizen  was sent to Syria by the United States where they knew he would be tortured.

You gotta love the admission in here from one official charged with fighting the war on terror that there will be innocent casualties.

For the geek who has no one: a virtual girlfriend!