Miscellaneous items of note, in lieu of real content:

A mother of two turned herself into a weapon of murder, and now the Israel is saying “it’s on.” It’s probably not the best idea in the world to spend ordinance to snuff out a blind old man, but I won’t cry when they do it.

Meanwhile, an author’s nip and tuck http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/books/01/16/obit.goldsmith.ap/index.html”>turns tragic while the leader of the second-greatest nation on Earth recovers from his turn under the vanity knife at his Sardegnan villa.

CNN is reporting on the amateur Saddam Hussein capture photographs today, which was scooped by the blog world last week.

The “Outkast is good” thing that’s going ‘round the web (shock of shocks: they KICK ASS!) has resulted in the unearthing of this funny flash video.