Information Links to inform your mind and catch you up on the news of the day. Intelligent and sophisticated.   slate.msn.com - Slate offers editorials from the major newspapers around the world, along with commentary from its own editorial staff. A good rundown of world events.   cagle.slate.msn.com - Political cartoons from around the world.   www.fark.com - It's not news. It's fark!   www.boingboing.net - Culling the daily news for the strange and fascinating.   www.slashdot.org - News for nerds.   www.planetizen.com - News from the planning world, by and for urban planners.   www.nytimes.com - the New York Times   www.cyburbia.org - News and events, and the planning forum.   The Onion - a different look at the news of the world.   www.wired.com - Wired Magazine online.   www.cbc.ca - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.   www.globeandmail.com - The Globe and Mail newspaper online.   Project for Public Spaces - Information for placemakers, architects and people who care.     Interesting Things   National Resources Canada - Earthquake Monitor - The gateway site for realtime earthquakes!   Catastrophe Calculator - Explore the results of an asteroid impact on your home town.   www.thespark.com - Lots and lots of tests.   Star Trek - New Voyages - The continuing 5-year mission of the Starship Enterprise!   Something Awful - It really doesn't make any sense, which is why it's so good.   www.worth1000.com - An awesome photoshopping site.   Radio Paradise - A great internet station playing eclectic, intelligent rock.     Blogs from around the World   Where is Raed? - The Baghdad blogs. Compelling look at the war from a very unique perspective, chronicling the war from its beginnings through to today in blunk honesty.   Baghdad Burning - The war from a female Iraqi point of view.   Allah is in the House - Satirical smartass point of view.   Turning Tables - The blog of an american soldier serving in Iraq   Saddam's Cyber Palace - More satire from the chief evil doer himself.