After a sabbatical (and just in time for Shabbat) I've resurrected the weekly linkefst to various interesting links from the wider blogosphere, as promised. Enjoy your weekend...

* Where's Bill? As Paul says, it's like a ghost town in there.

* There was great excitement at the success of SpaceshipOne's winning of the ANSARI X-prize and Richard Branson is already setting up Virgin Galactic (which reminds me of Pan Am in 2001: A Space Odyssey and how quickly that proved to be an anachronism, but I digress). But no-one seems to have focussed on the main game: when will the budget space airlines start? Will the hub and spoke model prove as bad for space as it has for Earth-bound airlines? Will the International Space Station become the Denver airport of the skies? And why wasn't anyone watching Area 51?

* And hands off Paul's goose, Arnie.

* Rusty ain't buying any more Prince albums.

* Say what you like about Google, those wascly wabbits have won gweat sense of humour that you can take where-ever you may go.

* The Commissar constructs the Shrill-o-Meter.

* Don't forget to catch up on the latest in Asian blogging.

* Meet Angus, a man with a great sex-life and a great woman-friend (she isn't a girl).

* Some things are so good they are worth linking to twice: Michele's take on the current state of blogging, not some new kind of journalism. If there's one thing bloggers like talking about, it's themselves and their medium. Michele is one who's taking stock is worth the pixels it's written with.

* You don't even need to know Pete to help compose his biography. Just read what other people have written already in the comments and join in the fun.

* When Andrew Sullivan fisks Wretchard, he doesn't get mad, he just fisks back.

* Some men never learn.

* The damn SIMS game is getting in the way of my regular reading.

* Kim Jong Il is about to star in a blockbuster American movie. And there's a sequel coming from the famous JibJab "Our Land" team. Like most sequels, it's likely to follow the path of the first but not quite hit the same highs. I hope I'm wrong.

* John Zogby is coming to Hong Kong in a couple of weeks and I have the pleasure of attending a talk of his. It will be interesting to hear from this prominent pollster, who has a great record and is currently out on a limb compared to most polls on the US election.

* Canada pays too high a price for a cheap sub.

* Darfur is rightly getting a lot of attention, but RP wants to know why Uganda is being overlooked?

* For once "show me your tits" is encouraged in the world's oldest charity technique: money for boobies.