How was your May Day? Did you think of Stalin? Didn't pop into my head once but I did about seven loads of laundry. Does that count?

• Update: photobombing...potentially NSFW depending on where you work and who is watching!
• Were you aware that India launched ten satellites with one rocket launch? I had no idea. How come no one thinks of the role of India in the coming global tensions. They can read you license plate from space now.
• Control freaks are in charge and are expanding their control freakiness. Stephen Taylor finds this not worrisome:

  The more time that the Prime Minister has to restructure the Canadian state, its identity and political brands, the more permanence his agenda will have.

  Isn't the idea of someone with 30% support "restructuring the Canadian state", especially considering his previous work in the junior ideologue club?

• Do you remember usenet? Remember that 1990's part of the internet where everyone could respond to everyone else's position on everything in a sort of web 2.0 thing without the 2.0? Then it died through spam. Rob thinks its happening again with the web. Noise creep. Which is different from creepy noises.

• Did you know that the sports memorabilia market was teetering, too?

• After paying my taxes, I am tell you I am just delighted that Ontario is slipping into have-not status while still sending 20 billion dollars to the rest of Canada. I really hope Flaherty tells us again how Ontarians need to change our ways.

• The new British coins are very cool.