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I have been adding some new things to my template today and I thought I'd take a moment to point them out. Nothing high tech, just some places you might want to visit. Under NWW Daily News - Godspy, a very slick Catholic webzine. There's lots of good quality material here for a thoughtful person of any persuation. For instance, there's a interesting interview (some might find it shocking or disturbing, but they would be folks unfamiliar with war books, methinks) with Evan Wright, author of Generation Kill. The book is about his time in Iraq and parts of it were serialized in Rolling Stone. An excerpt from the book is here. Under References - Snopes, a site for information about urban myths and W3Schools, a very useful site for bloggers needing to find information about html and stylesheets. W3Schools is a good place for all those times when you can't remember if the code for light green is color: #00ff00 or color: #11ff11. You can experiment with code right on their site. Neat-o. Under Websites of Note - One More Soul, a charity for those who love children, those who want to know what the problem with contraception is, and those curious about Natural Family Planning. Also new here is FIRE, dedicated to individual rights in education. Lots of my readers are academics and students, so I thought it might be of mutual interest.

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