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QT News You Can Use:

Enjoy listening to the live transmissions of air traffic controllers as you pack for your summer vacation at www.liveatc.net.

•   •   The Creation Museum at www .creationmuseum.org invites you to visit its new facility on Bullittsburg Church Road in Petersburg, Ky.

•   •   The Evolution Museum at www .evolutionmuseum.org invites you to donate toward the building of a new facility on Bullittsburg Church Road in Petersburg, Ky.

We might want to keep a closer eye on Bullittsburg Church Road in Petersburg, Ky.

Blog item: ". . . the Machete of Truth's new Blog of Truth has been launched . . ."

Blog item: ". . . read the post by the Machete of Truth on . . ."

Blog item: ". . . the Machete of Truth is hosting . . ."

Blog item: ". . . the Machete of Truth has deleted his blog . . ."

Add machetes of truth to the list of things that aren't what they used to be.

News headline: "Cubs-White Sox World Series?"

News headline: "Chicago, it's OK to dream big."

If only Jack Brickhouse, the Voice of Summer, were still here to narrate it:

"Ball three, strike two, two outs, ninth inning. . . . Watch it. . . . There's a drive on the line to left. . . . Come on, Moose! . . . HE DID IT! . . . HE DID IT! . . . Moryn made a fabulous catch! . . . It's a no-hitter for Cardwell! What a catch that Moryn made, oh, brother, what a catch he made!"

The video is at www.youtube.com.

News headline: "Local blogger irritates government in Yemen."

The story is about Jane Novak of Monmouth County, N.J., who maintains a blog critical of human rights abuses in Yemen at www.armiesofliberation.com.

The blog started after 9/11 with the hope to improve communication between the West and the Middle East. Yemen became a special interest along the way.

It has become such a special interest that Yemen has banned the blog.

The blog and its good works aside for the moment:

Isn't it nice to know that you can now irritate a government 7,000 miles away from the comfort of your living room?

Dead Governors of New Jersey at www.members.bellatlantic.net/~vze2rdt7/dead politicians.html has stalled for more than a year at gallery images of 31 of the 46 dead governors of New Jersey, for those keeping track.

QT Early Warning System:

•   •   A detailed explanation of how Barack Obama could beat John McCain in a popular vote landslide and lose in the Electoral College at www.politico.com/news/stories/0608/ 11182.html.

•   •   Fifty-six combinations of states that would cause a 269-269 Electoral College tie between Barack Obama and John McCain at www.fivethirty eight.com/2008/05/like-kissing-your-sister.html.

News headline: "Afghanistan overtaking Iraq as focus of terror war: analysts."

Blog headline: "Afghanistan overtaking Iraq as focus of war on terror, according to analysts. And it only took seven years and 4,000 U.S. combat deaths to figure that out."

As we continue to investigate the subtle differences between the news business and the blog business.

QT Three Internet Headlines that Fairly Well Sum Up the Internet (cont'd):

•   •   "Quotes from around yon blogosphere."

•   •   "History of index cards, part whatever."

•   •   "I am neurotic."

For Those Who Still Think There Is Anything Out There There Is Not a Blog Regarding (cont'd):

•   •   Fifty things you can do with tennis balls other than play tennis at www.lifehack ery.com/2008/03/22/50-great-things-you-never-knew-you-could-do-with-ten nis-balls..

•   •   A half-hour lesson on how to do a Christopher Walken imitation as taught by an Asian with a British accent at www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Dg0lDznnM0.

QT Grammar R Us Seminar on the English Language (cont'd):

Blog headline: "Obama: GOP trying to paint me and Michelle as 'too black.' "

Blog headline: "Obama: GOP trying to paint Michelle and I as 'too black.' "

No blog could be found in a search of the farthest reaches of the blogosphere that had it right.