The Globe and Mail's Kate Taylor looks at the New Yorker of editor David Remnick -- not to mention Remnick himself.

Check out My-NHL .com's Knob Hockey episodes.

The three Oilers/Ducks related ones made me laugh (some coarse language in two of them),  but I didn't get the Buffalo one.

Thanks, t-dot!

Democracy Now! broadcast Wednesday from the TechSoup NetSquared Conference at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Ca. The conference's theme is “Remixing the web for social change.” The show talked to people active in creating citizen's media.

In an op-ed piece, Village Voice columnist Anya Kamenetz issues some arguments why internships for college students should be paying gigs.

Health club as meat market was a pop culture theme in the 1980s. Now, people go to work out -- quite often, to ward off cardio-vascular problems common to middle-aged boomers like themselves.

Edward Greenspon, The Globe and Mail's editorial commander, will be doing a live chat online at noon EDT today.  I believe that will be a first for him in his current position.

As an fyi, here's a previous post on the subject. The Globe might have a first here in terms of online interaction with readers by a national Canadian news outlet.

If anyone knows of any other outlets that have put their top people in the hot seat, drop me a line.

A U.S. military officials describes Afghanistan as the "sleeper crisis" of this summer.

Overheard on College St.:

Saucy-looking woman speaking to guy with a goatee:

"The most important organ in a man's body is his tongue, sweetheart!"

Former urbanite and writer Jon Katz holds forth on what he calls the Grunt and Grumble. (thanks, Kevin!)