Feedster Introduces List of Top 500 Blogs

With the exploding popularity of all things blogs, keeping track of which ones are the most popular can be difficult task. It's been estimated that there are 30-80 thousand new blogs created daily, with 500-900 thousand* new posts being made as well. With this bulk of information being delivered daily, finding which blogs are considered popular, unless you have a list to guide you.

Smack Down At the iBook Sale; 17 Injured

Rednecks, flying chairs, petty fisticuffs. No, this isn't about the infamous Geraldo episode. It's not Jerry Springer or the WWE, either. It's about the ensuing chaos that erupted as a Virginia school system put 1,000 Apple iBooks on sale for $50. One person even lost a flip-flop.

Host, Dig

I tend to use "dig" for DNS lookups, but it's more habit than anything else. The main page for host says "host is a simple utility for performing DNS lookup" while dig's brags "Most DNS administrators use dig to troubleshoot DNS problems because of its flexibility, ease of use and clarity of output. Other lookup tools tend to have less functionality than dig."