Guardian Unlimited | Arts features | After the 'Family' broke us apart, 26 Nov 05 interesting story about <"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Spencer"> Jeremy Spencer (ex Fleetwood Mac) and his family (and The Family cult). Spencer's children have formed a group called Jynxt.

New York Times, A Party Girl Leads China's Online Revolution, 24 Nov 05: "Chinese Web logs have existed since early in this decade, but the form has exploded in recent months, challenging China's ever vigilant online censors and giving flesh to the kind of free-spoken civil society whose emergence the government has long been determined to prevent or at least tightly control."

Telegraph | News | 'There's no such thing as the perfect sermon. Thank God', 20 Nov 05 "So entrenched has the fixation with perfection become that a growing number of preachers log on to internet sites such as www.sermoncentral.com to download pre-formated sermons, in the manner of desperate A-level students on an essay deadline."

The Cult of Mac Blog: "Zen IPod Docks From Japan Made of Stone" [scroll down for this gem]

Al-Ahram Weekly | Heritage | Scene set for Coptic studies

heraldtribune.com, School Web filter blocks faiths, 8 Nov 05 "Nathan Robinson, 16, was pulling together the horoscopes for the student newspaper when he ran into an eye-opening problem: The school's Web filter blocked him from getting any information on astrology because it fell under the state's filter for cults and nonmainstream religions."