2/27: Morning Communique

CITY PAGES BLOGS

Steve Monaco has the latest Monday Movie Quiz at Couch Pundit.

Britt Robson breaks down last night's Timberwolves game at Balls!

Molly Priesmeyer profiles local artist Jaron Childs at Culture To Go.

THESE DAYS

Jason Kottke, the web designer who quit his job to run his blog full-time, has abandoned his plan to make a living through blogging after exactly one year.

The internal logs of at least 40 touch-screen voting machines from Florida reveal that votes were time and date-stamped as cast two weeks before the 2004 election, sometimes in the middle of the night.

MINNESOTA BLOG OF THE DAY

Five contributors discuss all things tech, from laser pointers to Xbox to RSS feeds and more at Technology Evangelist.

[Minnesota-based blog directory]

TIME WASTERS

Cute and hurt: 50 Animals in Casts

President Bush's Thanksgiving 2003 trip to Iraq has been commemorated with this classy Turkey Dinner George W. Bush Action Figure.

FREEDOM OF SPEECH

"My view is that neither England or America are democratic societies. You can't really speak your mind and if you do you're investigated."

-- British rocker Morrissey, after being interrogated by FBI and British intelligence after speaking out against the American and British governments