Palm-sized expandable T-shirt unveiled: "A palm-sized expandable T-shirt which fits anyone from a baby to a size-18 adult has been unveiled."

Lawmakers propose to move the Utah border: "Reps. Jim Hansen, R-Utah, and Jim Gibbons, R-Nev., propose moving the state line a few miles to the east and put all of Wendover, Utah inside Nevada."

Mikhail Gorbachev says the Soviet communism he served most of his life was pure propaganda: "'We, including I, were saying, "Capitalism is moving toward a catastrophe, whereas we are developing well." Of course, that was pure propaganda. In fact, our country was lagging behind,' Gorbachev said."

The next James Bond film will be named Die Another Day, according to the movie producers: "The film will be released in the UK and the US on November 22."

Bloggers and readers respond to Andrew Orlowski's article Back in the Bloghouse: "For me at least, the blogs have the advantage of being edited/run by an individual and you can quickly get a sense of whether this is a person whose perspective is worth returning to sample. You get the advantage of an energetic person searching out things that might be of interest to you. A wetware version of a software agent."

How Little Links can Make a Big Difference: "Anyone who has ever blogged can tell you why: it's a lot easier to blog a quick link than it is to come up with your own content! When you come across an interesting link during your surfing, just stick the link in a blog window, snippet out a quote, and (if you're up for it) add a quick comment. It may only take you a minute... but if your visitors check out the article, then they could up to half an hour of reading out of it. Compare this to a personal blog about your life - it can take half an hour to write, but your readers only get a minute of reading out of it. With such brutal time-economics working against personal blogs, the majority of blog posts are made up of the familiar link + quote + comment."

Finding Information on the Internet with Google From the UC Berkeley Teaching Library Internet Workshops: "People link to scary, unreliable, and junky stuff just as much as great stuff."

The World's Easiest Quiz: "1. How long did the Hundred Years War last? 2. Which country makes Panama hats? 3. From which animal do we get catgut? 4. In which month do Russians celebrate the October Revolution? 5. What is a camel's hair brush made of? 6. The Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean are named after what animal? 7. What was King George VI's first name? 8. What color is a purple finch? 9. Where are Chinese gooseberries from? 10. How long did the Thirty Years War last?"

Clint Laskowski told me that, "Rich Tatum has a great collection of ad hoc IP tools that can be used to help debug Iinternet connectivity and lookup problems."

The Google Store is back online.