Congratulations! First-time novelist and self-published to boot – this is one hell of an achievement.

Brilliant.

“John McCain is setting a remarkable record: he is the major party Presidential nominee with the skimpiest policy platform since Warren Harding or perhaps Calvin Coolidge. He’s making George Bush’s year 2000 policy work look encyclopedic by comparison.”

Darren Barefoot draws a bullseye on Air Canada’s new luggage charges: $25 for a second bag and $100 for each extra bag beyond that… but only a $3 savings if you travel with no bags.

Ish Theilheimer and the Golden Lake Institute have a news and research site dedicated to a strong, vibrant public sector.

Site for Raymond Louie’s campaign for the Vision Vancouver mayoral nomination. Very nice Drupal site, with multi-lingual support and a very clean layout.

Gregor Robertson’s campaign site for the Vision Vancouver mayoral nomination. A nice, clean Drupal design.

Allan De Genova’s campaign site for the Vision Vancouver mayoral nomination.

Media Matters nails Matt Lauer. This is my perennial media complaint: they gripe about a lack of substance from politicians, and then gravitate toward the manufactured fluff like kids chasing an ice cream truck.

Linda Bustos has some solid advice for people worried about others saying bad things about them online: start ensuring there’s good things about you, and that it outranks the bad stuff in search results.

Mia Farrow’s Earth Day open letter on Darfur.

A very nice new design for the Renewal Partners web site, from Communicopia. They put investment and philanthropy to work in the service of building a better world.

A point-by-point rebuttal of the Ben Stein anti-evolution “documentary”.

For NYC subway riders who have A Special Moment with another rider but fail to get a phone number, a new site offers a second chance to connect. (Minor peeve: could they mention somewhere on the site that it’s for NYC only?)

Wow… big news for Sequentia and Environics. I had the pleasure of dinner with Sequentia’s president, Jennifer Evans, last year after the CMA’s buzz marketing conference, and was immensely impressed.