10/17 Morning Communiqué

CITY PAGES BLOGS AND NEWS

ADULT., Heavy Heavy Low Low, and Tatsuya Nakatani are some of the acts playing around town tonight. Check out Chuck Terhark's City Planner at Culture To Go for a complete itinerary.

THESE DAYS

Escalating religious violence and tax dollars being funneled into the Bush administration's "faith-based initiatives" have increased membership in atheist groups by over 90 percent in the last six years.

Scientists at the University of California Berkeley say all the major Hawaiian Islands are sinking a few inches each century.

Apple Computer has filed for a trademark on the term "iPhone," suggesting the company plans to use the moniker as the official name for its highly-anticipated iPod cell phone.

MINNESOTA BLOG OF THE DAY

Shelli is mean to Target employees, gets attacked by seagulls, and is in her final trimester. Her blog is Belli Boo!

[Minnesota-based blog directory]

TIME WASTERS

Bloopers from Arrested Development

How to build a Rubik's Cube costume [via eBaum]

FREEDOM OF SPEECH

"I was on the Web sites as having the ugliest boob job in the world."

— actress Tara Reid, bemoaning her botched breast implant procedure in Us Magazine