Salon Blog watch

0ne of the refreshing things about cruising the Salon blogspace tonight: It’s not all about 9/11.

	On Gnosis, Morgan Sandquist says OSX browsers aren’t rendering text very well. Do others find this so? I’m likely to take the plunge on a new Mac for home this autumn. Our old hardware won’t run OSX of course.
	Stephanie Losi, who worked as Salon’s first intern many years ago and who has gone on to other illustrious things, has a new Salon blog: Neurotic Oasis Goes to School. Learn one new thing each day — today, HTML and Chicken Kiev. (She’s also been blogging over at Neurotic Oasis.)
	Toby Sackton is blogging from Lexington, Mass., against war-on-terror hysteria. “What happened last year was real. What is being replayed today is not. When you feel your society being manipulated on a grand scale, a first reaction is to opt out, to withdraw. But if you don’t withdraw, you feel you are opposing an almost unbelievable power — like a storm that you cannot possibly influence or control.” He also reports from a “September Eleventh Families for a Peaceful Tomorrow” event in Boston.
	Rob Salkowitz has unearthed a quote from E.B. White from 1949 that’s eerily prescient: “The city, for the first time in its long history, is destructable. A single flight of planes no bigger than a wedge of geese can quickly end this island fantasy, burn the towers, crumble the bridges, turn the underground passages into lethal chambers, cremate the millions.”
	Mark Hoback’s “Green — a 911 Psychodrama” joins the fine “Plan B” in the rarefied realm of Salon blog-novels.
	Child abuse among Jehovah’s Witnesses — Mike Pence reports on Dances with Cactus.
	Susannah Breslin asks a funny “Ten Salon Blog questions.” “Who is Scott Rosenberg–really?” I’ve been wondering that myself.
	Christian Crumlish’s Radio Free Blogistan is doing an awfully good job of keeping up with doings in blog-land, Salon’s and elsewhere. He beat me to the punch to mention that I will be talking on a panel at the UC Berkeley J-School on Sept. 17, along with a variety of other fine people like J.D. Lasica, Rebecca Blood, Meg Hourihan and Dan Gillmor, about blogging and journalism.