Happy Labor Day

Chinese authorities are trying to wipe Sister Furong off the face of the Internet. Good luck. There are still more pages of dancing babies and hamsters than anyone can reasonably count.

Here’s a brand extension for you: GM is licensing the Hummer name for a laptop, produced by the company that makes laptops and tablet PCs for the U.S. military. Prediction: This will become the biggest gotta get it geek toy since the early days of the iPod.

“For the next two or three months, in this area, there will not be any commerce, at all. No electricity, no restaurants. This is the real deal. It’s not living conditions.”
—New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin

It’s fascinating to see the rapid assembling of such extensive information about Hurricane Katrina in Wikipedia. And the firsthand accounts on blogs like you’ll find on this list, too.