I like Maine. You know I like Maine. Google knows I like Maine for God's sake. This year we are renting an urban cottage and looking forward to it. I have no idea as to the internet access so we will see how you cope.

• Your weekly PEI is outraged over something update: Now the government is apparently outraged this week at the media's lack of magic mushroom coverage.
• One Canadian politician now wants our own cult of sport apparently. I hope I spelled that correctly.
• Eight days later, my take on Georgia? Don't attack Russian held ground. El Tigre points to other views.
• Nigeria has given away a chunk of itself to Cameroons after an international court ruling based on an early 19th century colonial agreement between Britain and Germany. How refreshing and relatively peaceful - and as worthy a settlement as the Georgian-South Ossetian debacle is disturbing. All hail Nigeria and Cameroon! I will now support each at the Olympics and buy their products.
• Chris Taylor poses the aeronautical question - how dey do dat?
• Beautiful photos from North Korea. This must be the prettiest girl in the land. Read the whole set to see how poignant a shot that is. This one, on the other hand, is not.
• Health watch: I knew this and apparently I knew this, too.

So goodbye for now. I am at the whim of librarians and hoteliers for my internet access. It's not like I would buy a laptop to do this, you know.