Here's a couple posts I made:

• Conrad has his framed first 'Post' retrieved
• 'Going Post-al'
• Greenspon pimps globeandmail.com

Some on-air TV types, as well as actors, are dreading the rise of high-definition television, which magnifies every visual flaw on a person's mug.

This NYT story explores why it isn't so easy to do.

"Buy land, they're not making any more of it" is an adage that has never been more true than today. This NYT story finds "irrational exuberance" for real estate all over the world.

The NYT's Frank Rich on some of the current-day mythologizing about Watergate and how actual knowledge about the scandal is being lost to the mysts of time.

In this Toronto Star story, we learn a state-controlled firm wants to take over Izvestia, a famous newspaper from the not-so-good-old days, and the Kremlin wants to start its own English-language CNN equivalent.

Florence Aubenas and Hussein Hanoun al-Saadi are free after spending five months in captivity in Iraq.

You should read this Globe and Mail story or see this CTV story on how the Chinese government promotes smoking.

The G8 finance ministers have agreed to write off $40-billion US in debt for 18 of the poorest African countries. So what does that mean?