No blogging in the last couple days as most of my surfing time went into researching my CBC column on PS3 and Wii at E3.

I wrote a lot of words there and barely skimmed the surface of the news coming out of that conference. I didn’t even mention the crackdown on scantily clad booth babes.

The best photograph I’ve seen of probably the most photographed building in Canada.

No More Mister Nice Blog has an excellent take on blogs talking about blogs talking about blogs.

Here’s Atrios complaining about Mark Kleiman complaining about Atrios favorably linking to Digby complaining about Wonkette complaining about Peter Daou complaining about the media refusing to proclaim that Stephen Colbert was funny at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

Is there an echo in here?

(Found on the Daou Report.)

FedEx radar data + swinging ’60s music = Google Video awesomeness.

Watch for the planes that head right for the storm and then chicken out.

(Found on kottke.)

The Toronto Star has a column on the true Da Vinci mystery — why it’s so popular.

And why CTV is flying to London and Paris to cover a movie opening. And why the History Channel is devoting a week to it.

Vinay Menon calls it “mediocre pulp fiction built atop the quicksand of shoddy scholarship and recycled conspiracies.”

I’ll add “bad cryptography” to that.

As Kevin Sylvester said the other morning: “I’ve read Hardy Boy mysteries with better codes.”