Two teenage girls talking on the Scarborough Rapid Transit Line:

Girl One:

Kieran gave me a taco.

He loves me.

Girl Two:

Kieran doesn't share his food with anyone.

I went over to The Dirt (http://mediadirt.blogspot.com) the other day. Gone was the Canadian media gossip. Actually, pretty much every trace of its previous existence was gone.

That was possibly to be expected. "Dirty Dan" had been dropping broad hints about its possible demise.

However, the domain name is back. But this latest incarnation seems to have it as a splog for adult entertainment industry products.

The Organization of Islamic Countries has spoken out against death threats against anyone involved in the Prophet Muhammad cartoons controversy and says violent protests are hurting the image of Islam.

Way back in the 17th century, England's King Charles II decreed there always be six ravens at the Tower of London.

The legend is that if the birds were ever to leave the tower, the White Tower would crumble, and England would pretty much follow suit.

As you can see, when the fate of a nation of 55 million is at stake, serious measures must be taken to protect the ravens from emerging threats like bird flu.

For the time being, that means keeping them inside in specially builty aviaries.

Here's the AP story on CTV.ca.

The protests are to continue until the arrival of Dubya next month, and include a call for a nation-wide strike on Friday. However, Qazi Hussain, leader of the six-party alliance known as MMA, also said his campaign was also aimed at Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf for his "pro-western policies."

See the BBC story for details, but it doesn't strike me that cartoons are really the issue there anymore.

Shams (Sun), a Saudi newspaper, was acting with the best of intentions when it republished some of the infamous Prophet Muhammad cartoons with an eye towards mobilizing its young Saudi readership against Denmark.

You know what they say about the road to hell and best intentions.