Congratulations to Terry Stein a teacher at French Ford Middle School in Winnemucca for being choosen as Walmart's Teacher of the Year in Nevada.

North Korea admits it has secret nuclear weapons program: "North Korea has stunned the United States by admitting it has a secret nuclear weapons programme, in violation of a 1994 agreement with the Clinton administration, a senior US official disclosed last night. Pyongyang is also understood to have informed American diplomats that it no longer considers itself bound by the deal, which in essence traded US financial assistance for a promise by the North Korean regime to abandon its nuclear weapons programme and submit its nuclear facilities to international inspection.

Farmers give up water for thirsty San Diego: "Southern California water agencies reached a tentative agreement Wednesday to shift millions of gallons of Colorado River water used by desert farmers to fast-growing urban San Diego."

No more tears: "Onions that taste as good as the original but do not have you weeping over the chopping board are now a possibility, say Japanese researchers."

Mike Myers Drive: "Mike Myers is going to have a street in Scarborough named after him. The community council agreed unanimously yesterday that a new street near the intersection of Kennedy Road and Lawrence Avenue should be named for the actor, who was born and raised in Scarborough. 'When I first heard I'd have a street named after me, I was thrilled. Scarborough has helped to shape who I am, and I took it as a great honour,' Mr. Myers said in a statement from California, where he is shooting a movie based on Dr. Seuss's Cat in the Hat."

Dorothea Salo: "Hire me, hire my blog-that's how it works. Warts and all."

Mark Pilgrim: "There's money to be made from blogging, but indirectly—getting leads for paying gigs (Algorhythm), expanding your professional skill set (Dive Into Python), and finding entirely new opportunities through networking (Building Accessible Websites). But direct sponsorship? Dorothea nails it: sponsorship of content inevitably ends in tears, because it requires the content producer to be incorruptible."

Douglas Bowman: "One user wants one thing, another user wants it the exact opposite. As designers, we make conscious decisions to use elements from a visual language to communicate a message or facilitate interaction. With Wired News I decided to keep, and even emphasize, the strong aesthetic of our roots."

Doc said: "A reader writes to share one of many reasons why he doesn't publish a personal weblog: I don't want to give others the *right* to know personal information about myself." Hmm, what info do I give away direcly? Not much, but indirectly?

Police suppress terrorism angle: "Several witnesses to the Beltway sniper shootings over the past two weeks have described suspects resembling Middle-Eastern men, but authorities have played down the Islamic terrorism angle to avoid mass 'panic' in the area, an ATF official told WorldNetDaily."