Adding Al Jazeera: How the Qatar-based news channel made its way onto the airwaves of Burlington, Vermont, at American Journalism Review.

Related: Al-Jazeera offers news diversity to US, recently at FT.com .

Hobbit houses in Wales.

Dug into a hillside in a secluded part of Wales, Hobbit homes, or rather low impact woodland homes, are springing up all over the place thanks to the Lammas Project. This project is the first of its kind and aims to demonstrate the viability of low impact living as a settlement model. The development of an eco-village is set to take place in 2008 in Pembrokeshire, as this is one of the only county’s in the UK (apart from Milton Keynes) to have a planning policy for low impact Development...

Religion beat became a test of faith. Los Angeles Times religion reporter writes of losing his faith on the beat.

9 Digital Camera Settings for Every Photographer to Discover at cheapshooter.com. Some of these may be new to you, some may not be available with your camera.

Why Bugs Are Not Huge at LiveScience. Aka, why those nightmares can't come true.

The reason has to do with a bottleneck that occurs in insects' air pipes as they become humongous, new research shows. In the Paleozoic Era, insects were able to overcome the bottleneck due to a high-oxygen atmosphere.

More details, and a lovely bug X-ray, at the link.

Slacker Cats was disappointing. Great idea, not funny.