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Christian Crumlish

Your Salon Blog Tour of Quality ;

I'm feeling much better now. Not cranky at all. I found my Prozac, and also located my little yellow ones. Today is Friday, and I do raise a toast to all of you Weekend Warriors, unless you happen to work in the service industry, in which case I say hey now!

The very weird Googobits has a heavily linked farewell to Victor Herbert, a scientist known for his work on dietary deficiencies. (I like Googobits. May I be in there when I die?).

Our friend Maxine has been kissed by an angel — the Queen of Xanga, VeryModern. Newer readers should go and check both of them.

In atonement for many of the terrible deeds that I have committed recently while my personalities have kind of slipped in and out of place — not that it's been a problem giving you objective coverage — let me just say that I very much like Miguel Octavio's weblog, no matter what the name‡ oh, Prozac kickin' in.

Michel Vuijlsteke has an excellent link to the "Photographic History of Michael Jackson's Face." Be very afraid.

BradNickel.com Web Marketing? Is it just me, or is Salon Blogs a very weird spot to put a consulting site. Here, if you're interested.

Filchyboy writes an interesting piece on the chocolate trade and child slavery, informed in part by his experience of working for See's Candy, Inc.

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It's time for another Salon Blogs Death Watch. Teacher Stories was quite the Salon phenomenon. Although it spanned two months, it only posted on two days. This journal, described as An Experiment with a Multi-Author Blog, managed to touch enough hearts to score 735 hits. From the final post, on August 7 2002: "As a young person suffering with a progressive terminal disease, he showed..."

What's that? Somebody brought beer?

Goodnight.