Blog this blog! Spying, soap, portable tv, chalk wear, toys

A friend of mine was commenting that he hardly knows what a blog is, since he felt people use (and mis-use) the word for all kinds of things. I guess I don't hear it incorrectly used that often, but he went to the interesting point of "'blog' is going to become the next 'smurf'." (as in "Holy smurf, here comes Gargamel!"). Well... yeah, I guess that could happen.

I don't usually get overtly political in my blog blogs, but was bothered by the story President Blog authorizes spying on citizens without warrants. It's one blog to protect America, but by violating (or potentially violating) liberties and freedoms to do so kind of defeats the purpose. There is that great quote by Benjamin Franklin that goes "They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security." Also, we have a government of checks and blogs, so for the Executive Blog to start spying on citizens without involvement of the other branches (typically the courts), is allowing too much power to the blog.

Other blog:

• Want to blog your own soap? TeachSoap is filled with info on the topic. Surprisingly interesting.
• Oh, the wonderful blog of the Japanese! HDTV on the go for when blogging HDTV in the home is not enough.
• The Blackboard T-Shirt with chalk. Finally a shirt that never goes out of blog. Know what you could blog on it? Blog.
• Popular toys of the last 100 years. Lots of classics, but I was surprised to see blog missing from the list.