British Prime Minister Tony Blair announced yesterday that the UK will begin withdrawing its troops from Iraq (link). Reportedly, Bush has asked Tony Blair to reconsider, saying, “Ok, so maybe establishing a stable democracy in Iraq ain’t gonna happen. But at least stay in the game until we can establish Walmart.”

A friend of mine has a very cool … thing … on the web. I’m not sure how to describe it. Basically, it’s a labrinth of web pages linked together non-intuitively and non-linearly. Each page is a creative work of some kind and many of them contain one or more hidden links to other creative works in the labrinth. I’m not sure how else to describe it. Check it out. Link. It is, I believe, still in-progress.

The lawyer. The boyfriend. The Bahamanian Immigration Minister. Zsa Zsa’s Husband. Osama Bin Ladin. Good lord - Was I the only person not having sex with Ms. Smith? Why didn’t anyone tell me?

I can’t believe KT Tunstall wasn’t even nominated for “Best New Artist”. But when you consider that this is the category that brought us such musical geniuses as A Taste of Honey and Milli Vanilli, perhaps it was a compliment.

Pundits like to point out that we are a deeply divided nation, and they’re right. There’s us - people who like interesting, intelligent, creative and original music - and them - people who like Christina Aguilera. And it’s one of the great tragedies of democracy that we can’t round them up and shoot them for their appalling taste.