2/7: Morning Communique

CITY PAGES BLOGS

Peter Scholtes at Culture To Go asks: Prince and Scott Seekins - separated at birth?

Steve Monaco has another edition of his Movie Year (So Far) at Couch Pundit.

Paul Demko wishes everyone a Happy Reaganmas at Live Nude Weblog!

Demko and Jack Sparks go to the roller derby at the Other Side of Country.

THESE DAYS

Google is working on a project to create its own global internet protocol network, a private alternative to the internet controlled by the search giant, according to sources who are in commercial negotiation with the company.

A man who shoved ice cream into a mailbox has been arrested for violating the Japanese mail laws.

MINNESOTA BLOG OF THE DAY

Robert K. Brown, leukemia survivor and father of two daughters, blogs about his reading list, Iraq, and the Abramoff scandal at A Work in Progress.

[Minnesota-based blog directory]

TIME WASTERS

What would you do with 100 dildos?

Meet Rex, the Homeland Security mountain lion

FREEDOM OF SPEECH

"I am one of the best singer-songwriters this country has produced. Ever. If people don't like me saying that, tough shit. People should deal with facts."

-- Singer Mick Hucknall, of the 1980s band Simply Red, in Sunday's Observer