Robert Scoble made the blogosphere a little shinier by congratulating Firefox on its success.

RageBoy’s new High-Beam blog was a pick of the day at The Guardian making The Guardian a little shinier and sanding down a carbunkle on RB’s craggy butt which is as close as RB gets to being shiny. (Here’s RB on Scoble.)

Reading AKMA’s talk – sermon? invocation? – at the marriage of his friends Juliet and John will make you and your life companion feel shiny. For me, AKMA is a BridgeBlogger except instead of giving insight into another country, we learn what’s remarkable about another religion.

I got a shiny copy of a new magazine in the mail a few days ago: Make. It’s packed with cool stuff and would appeal to the tinkerer in me if I had one of them in me. It’s off to a great start. (Dan Bricklin loves it.)

EthanZ is doing some powerful blogging from India, shining his light on a place that is unfamiliar to most of us on this side of the world.

Liz Lawley will be spending her time adding to the wattage of Microsoft Research’s Social Computing Group. It’s an impressive and congenial group. Congrats, Liz.

Bob “Ethernet” Metcalfe has won a shiny National Medal of Technology for technological innovation. Congrats!

I’m puzzled, though, about why this medal, announced three days ago, is for 2003. Not quite keeping up in Internet time, are we, Department of Commerce?

(Why the surge of miscellany? Because I just turned in a looong article on taxonomies and tags that will be the next issue of Esther Dyson’s Release 1.0, so now I have time to poke around the Web some more.)

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