Blogger was named alongside Google, Yahoo, Ebay, and Amazon, as one of The Seven Wonders of the Web by the UK’s Guardian Unlimited. Almost immediately, however, the Guardian has begun running articles calling on Blogger to “cease its cyber imperialism,” and to examine the “root causes” of the two recent hack attacks against it. As “the world’s sole weblog Superpower,” one Guardian pundit admonishes, “Blogger needs to re-evaluate the racist

A cooler filled to bursting with cold bottled beers of various hues and pedigrees; bowls of chips, differently sized and shaped and spiced — with dips made from spinach and clam and dill-smoked salmon; platters of crisp cut veggies, chafing dishes filled with Asian-styled dumplings (with a ginger sesame sauce) and criminally spicy buffalo wings — the meat so soft it slides melting off the bone; summer sausage slices slathered

An instructive anecdote for this evening: Last year, I insulted the hostess of a New Year’s Eve party I was attending by smugly noting, “Uh, that’s not really champagne, — it’s sparkling wine,” when she tried to make what she called a “champagne toast” just before midnight. Not my fault, really — she was pouring from a bottle born in Sonoma, CA., which is no where near N.E. France… “So.