Easter Treats, Troubled Kids, Sneaky Artists and Conspiracy Talk

References to Easter are beginning to appear in BlogPulse, and that means it's time again for Peeps Research, a tongue-in-cheek site by Emory Univeristy scientists, who this year detail delicate surgery to separate cojoined Peeps quintuplets (I found the link to it off a medical blog).

And for the answer to "which Easter candy is the favorite?"...I turned loose BlogPulse's trend-graphing tool to come up with this:



Today's gutsy move -- and today's top BlogPulse link -- comes from the Wooster Collective, a project whereby an artist named Banksy, dressed as a British tourist in trenchcoat and fake beard, managed to sneak into major New York musuems and hang his own art -- unnoticed. (Maybe he can find "The Scream"?). Second-gutsy move is today's No. 7 top link, The Credit Card Prank, whereby a credit card user tests the limits of credit-card security, and totally flunks (from a security standpoint) but with flying and funny colors.

Elsewhere in the blogosphere, the news is more serious, with the nation and courts continuing to address the saga of Terri Schiavo. And then there's another difficult and emotional issue, that of teen Jeff Weise, a troubled teen who this week shot and killed 9 people before killing himself on the Red Lake reservation in northern Minnesota.

The Schiavo case, and Congress' intervention in the issue, turned bloggers' attention to a New York Times article about divisions within the Republican Party about the definition of "conservative" and the role of the federal government in state issues and private family affairs. Key observers, including Rep. Christopher Shays, the Hoover Institute's David Davenport, and Harvard law professor Charles Fried appear among today's burstiest people for their opinions on what the philosophical divide might mean for conservatives.

Meanwhile, where Tom DeLay smells a left-wing conspiracy, IMAX moviegoers are treated to what looks like right-wing-influencedcensorship over the issue of evolution.

BLOGPULSE TREND GRAPH OF THE DAY: The sixth Star Wars film is set to invade the planet sometime in May, and buzz is starting to build as fans watch trailers and catch tidbits of the latest installment. Somewhere in the back of my college-age son's closet, I'm sure there's a light saber he won't let me donate to Goodwill...