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Merry Christmas!

Just wanted to wish you all a very happy Christmas. Now that I have gotten set up in my new city of Ottawa, I can relax and enjoy spending time with friends and relatives. I hope you are doing the same.

Here is a little ditty from Coldplay on the theme:

Google feature makes searches better

If you have created a Google profile for yourself, you may be interested to know that you now have more power in your mouse than you realize. This new feature in Google Search results makes customizing your info much easier.

Have you ever wanted to mark up Google search results? Maybe you're an avid hiker and the trail map site you always go to is in the 4th or 5th position and you want to move it to the top. Or perhaps it's not there at all and you'd like to add it. Or maybe you'd like to add some notes about what you found on that site and why you thought it was useful. Starting today [Nov.20 2008] you can do all this and tailor Google search results to best meet your needs.

Today we're launching SearchWiki, a way for you to customize search by re-ranking, deleting, adding, and commenting on search results. With just a single click you can move the results you like to the top or add a new site. You can also write notes attached to a particular site and remove results that you don't feel belong. These modifications will be shown to you every time you do the same search in the future. SearchWiki is available to signed-in Google users. We store your changes in your Google Account. If you are wondering if you are signed in, you can always check by noting if your username appears in the upper right-hand side of the page.

The changes you make only affect your own searches. But SearchWiki also is a great way to share your insights with other searchers. You can see how the community has collectively edited the search results by clicking on the "See all notes for this SearchWiki" link.

Star Trek's Majel Roddenberry dies

Majel Barrett Roddenberry, Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry's widow and a fixture of nearly every incarnation of the space travel franchise, died on Thursday. She was 76.

Roddenberry, who suffered from leukemia, died at home in Bel Air, Calif., according to a spokesperson.

Before Star Trek, the Ohio-born actress worked on a range of television shows, including Bonanza and Leave it to Beaver.

She was romantically involved with Roddenberry when he launched Star Trek in the mid-1960s. Though he cast her as the USS Enterprise's unnamed first officer in his pilot, she would go on to fame as the secondary character Nurse Chapel in the original series and in subsequent films. The couple married in 1969.

Link to Roddenberry website

Politics are a Drag - for RuPaul

The 48-year-old hot tranny diva posed as both Barack and Michelle Obama as part of a holiday promotion for her new drag queen competition TV series "RuPaul's Drag Race" on Logo.

Hong Kong's Gay Revolution

For a few hours, a city that usually seems immune to surprises watched in awe as approximately 1,000 parade-goers stopped traffic, filled the streets and spread their message to "celebrate love." A rainbow-colored dragon bobbed over the heads of carefully coiffed men donning dainty dresses and dancing to "Celebrate Pride," which warbled through a loudspeaker in the center of the city. Men with fiery red-feathered tiaras chanted, "Pride parade! Pride parade! Pride parade!" in Cantonese and English while marching through Hong Kong's congested Hennessy Road waving multicolored pride flags

View from a broad abroad

LGBT travellers can offer their services as volunteers in a variety of ways.

Imagine building floats for Sydney's Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, working with transwomen in Thailand, or planting trees in Katrina-devastated wetlands around New Orleans.

There are many opportunities for LGBT travellers to make a difference in the countries we visit, but we still face some unique barriers.

A new sole for Bush

During the holiday season thoughts often turn to giving away what we no longer need to those who will appreciate their significance. Now is your chance to let Geo. W. Bush know how you feel ... As a sign of your admiration, please feel free (compelled) to send your old shoes to:

George W. Bush Presidential Library
c/o SMU
6425 Boaz Lane
Dallas TX 75205

Classical Muppets

Two fantastic YouTube clips to introduce your kids to great works of classical music ... and puppetry. First, Beeker and his many clones perform Beethoven's Ode to Joy, then Gonzo the Great and his chicken orchestra cluck out The Blue Danube Waltz by Strauss.