Condit mum on vote against expulsion: "Rep. Gary Condit's support for felon James Traficant invites the kind of questions Condit no longer answers. Already the highest-profile lame duck in Congress, Condit drew more attention late Wednesday by becoming the only lawmaker to oppose Traficant's expulsion from the House. But as he has consistently since losing the March Democratic primary, Condit is keeping his thoughts to himself."

Gary Condit voted to keep Traficant: "The anti-climatic 420-1 vote that ejected the nine-term congressman for taking bribes and kickbacks took just minutes Wednesday night. In that time, the maverick Democrat went from being a congressman with privileges and responsibilities to an ordinary citizen in his former district. All but Rep. Gary Condit, D-Calif., who was defeated in a primary for re-election, ignored his plea."

Best of History Web Sites: "A portal created for students, history educators, and general history enthusiasts. Here you'll find sites, rated for usefulness and accuracy, that will help you study or teach a wide variety of topics and periods in History."

The server stereo is free to a good home. Its not working, but it may be fixable. See David.

Men die young - even if old: "Simply being a man is bad for your health, even after the excesses of youth. Young men are often risk takers, and their predilection for thrills and spills means that they are more likely to die than young women. But if you assume things even out in later life, think again."

NY Times: Setting Up a Weblog

Designs For Working: "But when employees sit chained to their desks, quietly and industriously going about their business, an office is not functioning as it should. That's because innovation--the heart of the knowledge economy--is fundamentally social. Ideas arise as much out of casual conversations as they do out of formal meetings. More precisely, as one study after another has demonstrated, the best ideas in any workplace arise out of casual contacts among different groups within the same company."

Net Users Try to Elude the Google Grasp: "People are trying to reduce their electronic presence - and discovering that it is not as simple as it would seem. The Internet, which was supposed to usher in an era of limitless information, is leading some people to restrict the information that they make available about themselves."

Using Blogs in Business: "There is great potential for business weblog use, from project-based team weblogs to the constant churn of content through a weblog on a corporate site. This chapter shows you different ways you can use weblogs in your business, and also examines the benefits of doing so. At the end of this chapter, a tutorial steps you through the process of creating a topic-specific business weblog."

The ETL Corporate Logo Graphic Standards are now online. The logos are for use on marketing and communications materials such as brochures, advertising, letterhead, business cards, envelopes, PSA's, video production, advertising specialty items (such as t-shirts, caps, coffee mugs, buttons, etc) and new media applications when the corporate identifier is to be used.