I'm curious today about breaking points. What is your personal limit? And what will your course of action be when that line has been crossed?

Katiebird, I hope you don't mind me hopping in on your hosting day - I tried to hunt you down by checking your comments, but then became hopelessly confused trying to figure out the time zone difference, etc... and had a whatever kind of moment. If someone is already scheduled for tonight, please let me know and I'll pull this down - but otherwise... can I treat this like a coming out (from under my rock) party? I've been lurking a little, and silently checking in on many of you... but as Catnip so eloquently said the other day - My brain has been on strike!

I don't trust myself to comment on this...

Welcome newcomers! Please introduce yourselves. It seems like there has been a bit of an influx around here, so in keeping with Booman Tribune tradition.... Please take a minute to pull up a chair and tell us a little bit about yourselves... Have a couple of drinks if that works for you...and scoop up some newbie mojo. The 4's will flow freely Come on in!

Update [2005-7-9 18:34:25 by zander]: - On a whim, I just called the phone number listed at mamatang.ca and spoke with Tracy Tang, the photographer responsible for the Tinhat series to offer my thanks for the great pics. Kudos to Tracy for being cool about the use of her images here, and to her friends who unwittingly took part by letting her photograph them at a party...

July 7th in England

An ITN live broadcast described a major attack to cause maximum chaos, and minimal loss of life. Not like Madrid.

There are reports of injuries.

I'll update as I find more information.

Update [2005-7-7 6:9:11 by zander]: - This is a major event. First explosions happened at 8:49 local time. The entire mobile phone network has ground to a halt, while people contact loved ones. Many people were trapped underground as the tube system stopped. Witnesses have described a flash and a sudden outage that stopped trains. There is some uncertainty about the cause.

US Holding Prisoners on Warships: UN Official

The article goes on to mention that the accusations are at this point, merely 'rumors', but the UN, seriously stymied at the moment in efforts to launch an inquiry into Guantanamo, is interested in investigating.

Today is Supreme Court day! Ten commandments, internet file sharing.... and speculation that Rehnquist could resign today. I don't have anything intelligent to say about the cases which will be decided, but I am interested in the question - "Are we going to spend this summer in a confirmation fight?"

So in a 'just in case' kind of a way ... some of the potential replacements are:

A round-up of some great news from the last couple of days after the flip...

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It seems to be a long standing tradition here at Booman Tribune to have `getting to know you' diaries.

I believe this began quite by accident when Booman himself posted a diary back in April asking the question Where Do You Live? Well, I wasn't around back then, but browsing that thread now, I can tell you that it looked like a lot of fun (and some of the pictures are stunning).

This evolved over the following weeks and months into quasi-regular Tell Us diaries that were an opportunity for some of the original members (at diane101's coaxing, it appears) to welcome newbies into the `family' here.