Oh, those blogwatch days!

They were so peaceful, and great.

Hit & Run: Syria frees 130 political prisoners. How come?

Sean Collins: Journalista! (temporary) farewell. Sigh. Can’t wait for Dirk’s triumphant return.

New York Times blog. Via Oxblog.

Why haven’t I blogrolled the Christianity Today weblog yet? I don’t know.

Hatch’s Plot Bank: There are a finite number of plots in the world. Here are over 2,000 of them. I forget where I got this, but it’s funny stuff.

Interview with Carla Speed McNeil of Finder fame: “One image in particular [from old horror comics] sticks in her mind: ‘It was very odd, but not very creepy: kids in a huge dim room, like a manor house or a museum, looking through a huge open archway into another, more brightly-lit room. On the far wall, framed, is a tooth–a long, pointed thing; a relic. Ordinary room furniture and other trappings surround. But filling up the enormous room is a ghostly image of a harpooner and the whale from which the tooth came. The idea that deliriously large stories contained in tiny things were reeling around in every spare corner was immensely satisfying to me.'”