Chris Nolan's 'Spot-On': I meant to blog about this as soon as I heard, but better late than never. Chris Nolan has rebranded and relaunched her journalistic group weblog (time to update those RSS feeds...). It's now called ">Spot-On. The new design is polished and handles the ads much more gracefully. Chris Nolan is... (Journalism)

Dreamweaversavvy.com back up: We found the source of the error(s) and so now instead of pointing to the mirror site at http://fireweaver.com/, please feel to re-commerce linking directly to http://dreamweaversavvy.com/ (or any of its variants, including http://www.dreamweaversavvy.com/ http://dreamweaverfireworkssavvy.com/ and http://www.dreamweaverfireworkssavvy.com/). Phew!... (Book News)

Question I just overheard me: Question I just overheard me ask myself. "Where is my not-bag not-going?"... (Miscellany)

New work from Swigart and Niss at WORD CIRCUITS: New work from Swigart and Niss at WORD CIRCUITS This just in. Robert Kendall announces two new works at the Word Circuits Gallery: * About Time by Rob Swigart * The Dancing Rhinoceri of Bangladesh by Millie Niss (www.wordcircuits.com) [artsflow {category: hypertext literature}]... (Miscellany)

Come on in, the water's fine.: added a new link to my masthead/sidebar area today. It's called Today's Referrers and its an ordinary link to the page showing RFB's referrer stats for the day. A few referrers show up almost every day, sometimes with just one link. I often assume that that one link is the writer... (Weblog Concepts)

Plutocrats not conservative? I'm shocked, shocked!: Right fringe notices that Republicans are not conservative. Kevin Tuma hates FDR and Lincoln, favoring Goldwater and Reagan. What's interesting about this article is that he voices the "dirty little secret" of the Republican party. It is not now and has never been a conservative party, especially not in the sense... ()

The last refuge of scoundrels: Conason: Ralph Reed, unpatriotic coward. Joe Conason calls an ad against Senator Max Cleland (D, Georgia) "[a]nti-American, unpatriotic and cowardly":Speaking of Osama and Saddam, their images provide the backdrop for what may be the single most nauseating, cynical and un-American political advertisement of the midterm campaign. [more at Bite Media]... (Salon Bloggers)

Where's Waldo?: A combination of burnout and offline deadlines has severely hampered my ability to post interesting links here, let alone cogent ideas or analysis. I don't think this situation will last too long (although I am heading to southern California for a wedding on Friday and won't be back in action till... (Weblog Concepts)