Raising Pagans
By Kathleen Richards, EastBayExpress
Paganism has surged in popularity over the past several decades, paving the way for a new generation of youngsters who are eager to inherit the caldron. Kathleen Richards explores the ups and downs of raising Pagan children in a multifaith family, from schoolyard bullying to SpiralScout meetings ('a Pagan alternative to Boy and Girl Scouts'). One couple profiled in the article preaches both Catholicism and paganism, hoping that their kids will pick up values from each. -- Mary O'Regan
http://www.eastbayexpress.com/2007-03-28/news/raising-pagans/1

Brilliantly Boring
By Oliver Burkeman, the Guardian
Watching a 44-pound hunk of cheddar cheese age on a live web broadcast seems a little, well, boring. Yet as Oliver Burkeman discovered, thousands of people are tuning in daily to Cheddarvision. The cult phenomenon of banal webcam subjects, Burkeman suggests, might be attributed to the paradoxical increase of boredom in the age of information. The very first webcam, which broadcasted a coffee pot in the Cambridge University computer lab, paved the way for other 'brilliant' sites such as Watching-Paint-Dry.com and Hencam. -- Natalie Hudson
http://technology.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,2048813,00.html
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The History of Branding
By HistoryOfBranding.com
Do the Starbucks mermaid and Linux penguin ever get together? They do, at the website of the History of Branding. There, you'll find a wide array of some of the world's most recognizable corporate logos. Click on a brand and you can read a short history of the company, or just bask in the pixilated glow resulting from packing all the logos of our commercial landscape onto a single webpage. (Thanks, Straight.com.) -- Evelyn Hampton
http://www.historyofbranding.com/