First of all, make sure you give these folks some well-deserved visits. They are my top commentators for last week:

Jessica The Rock Chick (14)
Derek (6)
katelynjane (5)
Marcia (2)
This Eclectic Life (2)

Second, these are the best articles I ran across last week on my Safari:

katelynjane’s notebook: Scared Silly
katelynjane is my newest blog friend. She’s been taking my advice and writing all over the internet wherever they’ll have her. In this post she wrote a scary story for submission into Shelly’s contest. Way to go katelynjane.

Pop A Point Pencils | Beeker’s Words Remember how cool these were in grade school?

How To Live A Life Less Ordinary « Lives Less Ordinary Amy Palko from Scotland wrote a super cool post giving tips on how to live a life less ordinary.

Win A Bracelet For That Special Someone | Dad Balance Derek Semmler at Dad Balance is having a contest where you can win some beautiful hand-made jewelry. If you’re a guy this is a great way to, as he puts it, “get out of the dog house.”

Public Schools’ Annual Review – Associated Content This article confronts the California Standards Test as an effective assessment for public school students and teachers. From the opinion of a teacher it challenges the notion of whether it can be an effective catch-all for our problems in education.

Thursday Thirteen Number Thirty-Nine. The Game Is Afoot. Scary Story Blog Writing Contest.

Impending demise of Google world I write a lot lately about Google’s “PageRank” malarkey. I ran across this article that underlies a lot of those same points I’ve been making.

Entrecard Review | GorillaSushi Favorable review of Entrecard

Delusions of Grandeur » Blog Archive » Entrecard: All its cracked up to be? A good appraisal of what’s up with Entrecard. (my favorite traffic builder service currently!)