4/26: Morning Communique

CITY PAGES BLOGS AND NEWS

The Best of the Twin Cities 2006 issue is live!

THESE DAYS

Del Mar College in Texas has blocked MySpace.com in response to complaints about sluggish Internet speed on campus computers.

A recent study by economists of the Bank of England and the universities of Heidelberg and Bonn showed psychologists displaying greater success at picking stocks than physicists, mathematicians, and economists. [via Undernews]

MINNESOTA BLOG OF THE DAY

Raven had the flu and has an IMDB listing. Maybe you can figure out who Raven really is by reading her blog, Narcoleptic Squirrel.

[Minnesota-based blog directory]

TIME WASTERS

1984 Newsweek advertising insert from Apple (go to page 10 to see a certain Microsoft founder giving his endorsement)

Fluffer Nutter: the six-toed kitten

FREEDOM OF SPEECH

"Democrats are trying to stir up crap."

-- Republican consultant Joe Gaylord, commenting on the New Hampshire phone-jamming scandal that continues to reverberate after more than three years