Slow Blogging is a rejection of immediacy. It is an affirmation that not all things worth reading are written quickly, and that many thoughts are best served after being fully baked and worded in an even temperament.

Slow Blogging is speaking like it matters, like the pixels that give your words form are precious and rare. It is a willingness to let current events pass without comment. It is deliberate in its pace, breaking its unhurried stride for nothing short of true emergency. And perhaps not even then, for slow is not the speed of most emergencies, and places where beloved, reassuring speed rules the day will serve us best at those times.

Slow Blogging is a reversal of the disintegration into the one-liners and cutting turns of phrase that are often the early lives of our best ideas. Its a process in which flashes of thought shine and then fade to take their place in the background as part of something larger. Slow Blogging does not write thoughts onto the ethereal and eternal parchment before they provide an enduring worth in the shape of our ideas over time.

Short response: I can has LiveJournal?

Long response: But...that's not blogging, is it?

From 52 to 48 With Love is a website like Sorry Everybody on which Democrats demonstrate their ability to be gracious winners. It's really kind of charming. And, just as I was linking to Sorry Everybody, I noticed that the site is now titled Hello Everybody:

Some of us — apparently, most of us — would like to say hi to you, world. We had a rough patch there. We would have called earlier, but things were a little weird between you and us, and I wasn't sure what else there was to say. You know how it is: you think of calling, you stare at the phone, and then one day the sun is shining and you elect a black guy who reads a lot and did great in college.

So, hello, world. Let's get to know each other again. We cool?

The whole internet is exploding with love!

I wonder if one of these puppies is the future First Puppy? They grew up in front of the camera, I'm sure they could handle the fame.

I love this Robocop on a Unicorn thing that's circling the internet. It never gets old.

(Thanks to Brian G. for the tip.)

Via Bookninja.

P.S. Election-related: What the fuck did you people do with John Bailo? I was enjoying his increasingly Pollyanna-ish comments from an alternate dimension where John McCain was winning. It was some of the best sci-fi I've read this year.

The most worrisome thing about all this? Spiers describes her vision as "Maxim for women." Let me be the first to say: GROSS!

Speaking of feminism: there's apparently a little online kerfluffle about this poster:

However! The ten-or-so minute video interview version takes only ten minutes (or so), and includes discussion of the blogging vs. thinking divide, the "Bataan Death March" of campaign trail coverage, the interns who help Sullivan keep his blog humming, and the "neurotic" nature of blog-readers (and why bloggy neurosis might be justified in these times).

A church minister from Strängnäs in central Sweden has resigned from his post after his porn-surfing habits led to the spread of a virus that knocked out the local church network, Metro reports.

But the most fascinating bit is tacked on at the end:

The number of sex-related cases involving men of the cloth has skyrocketed in recent years, according to Metro....A pastor in Gothenburg recently came under scrutiny for moistening post-it notes with his penis and sticking them up in an office.

Even better, the moist-wanged pastor was allowed to keep his job. Full story here.

The day before the murder, he called her parents and complained about his wife's Facebook entry which he said "made her look like a fool", the court heard.

I'm really posting this because I have a Facebook etiquette question: Would it be creepy and weird if I joined the Facebook group for Slog fans?

VS.

FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!

(Thanks Matt Hickey and Callie.)

This just in from Slog tipper Jahara:

You may already know this, but apparently Rebecca Long, of the child starvation in Carnation story, was an avid knitter and maintained a blog. Eerie reading.

Indeed. From the KOMO news report on Long's arrest for criminal mistreatment of a her now 14-year-old stepdaughter:

Sheriff spokesman John Urquhart says the girl weighed only 48 pounds when contacted by deputies Friday, and had been given only little food and water for several years.

[I]nvestigators said they found the girl's mother restricted her water intake to about half of a small Dixie cup per day. The mother only let the girl shower every two or three weeks, and watched her during each shower and bathroom break to keep the girl from surreptitiously drinking water.

The girl and her brother were forced to sleep on the floor in the same room as their parents, and a heavy dresser was pushed in front of the door to keep her from sneaking out and getting water, Urquhart said. The girl said the dresser was placed there after she was caught one night sneaking out of her own room to drink water from the toilet. The girl told deputies that on one occasion, her mother duct-taped her hands behind her back and dunked her head in the toilet as a form of discipline. Detectives searched the home and found the girl's room had a double deadbolt on the door used to keep her locked in the room. They also collected evidence that the family had health insurance and that her little brother had seen a doctor in the last few years.

And here's a taste of the well-maintained knitting blog Shades of Green:

A glance at my stash growth is eye-popping. Why yes, I've bought yarn for 72(!) more projects than I've finished since November 3. Yowser!

Read more yarny ramblings from an alleged monster here.

www.palinaspresident.com

I suggest you open the door a couple times...

(Thanks to Sage for the tip.)

Time spent Googling the latest campaign news or searching for choice eBay buys may help stimulate and improve the minds of middle-aged and older Americans, UCLA scientists suggest. Research reported in next month's American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry is the first to assess how performing Internet searches influences brain activity in older Americans, says study author Gary Small, professor at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA.

The research included 24 healthy volunteers ages 55 to 76. Half had Internet-searching experience, and the others had none. All were asked to perform Web searches and book-reading tasks while undergoing functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scans, which recorded the brain-circuitry changes they were experiencing.

All of the volunteers showed significant brain activity during the reading task, which stimulated brain regions that control language, reading, memory and visual abilities.

But during Internet searches, major differences flared up between the two groups, Small says. Only those who had previous Web-search experience registered extensive activity in decision-making and complex-reasoning portions of the brain.

"Our most striking finding was that Internet searching appears to engage a greater extent of neural circuitry that is not activated during reading, but only in those people with prior Internet experience," Small says. He is also co-author of iBrain (HarperCollins, 2008), which was released on Tuesday and explores how older Americans can keep up with younger generations in an increasingly technological world.

Small says that over time, he'd expect the inexperienced Internet searchers to benefit as well.

A more in-depth analysis from Newsweek, after the jump: