So yeah, you know what? Forget it, at least for the time being. The next time you see a “Yesterday’s News” post, assuming I ever get around to writing one again, you’ll know that I’ve finally gotten my feeds sorted out. Between you and me, I wouldn’t hold your breath.

• The Globe and Mail pointed out that the new federal budget is “short on details” when it comes to how the proposed $4 billion will be saved, noting that there’s no doubt that certain programs will be cancelled

• The NDP and the Liberals spoke out against the budget, saying that it doesn’t address the needs of families

• The Globe also reported on a new mental health study, which found that happily married US soldiers who communicated with their spouses through delayed means like snail mail had lower levels of post-traumatic stress disorder than those who communicated with their spouses through calls and instant messages

• By the way, Canadian Forces just completed their last battlefield offensive in Afghanistan

• The good people at Literature for Life, an organization whose board I’m happy to be on, received a rather glowing testimonial from the Women Moving Forward Program at the Jane/Finch Community Family Centre

• As the Atlantic reported, it turns out that actually was a genuine photo of Congressman Weiner’s business

• Talking Points Memo, meanwhile, basically encouraged everyone to make their own joke about Andrew Breitbart hijacking a press conference about an overexposed dick

• Mother Jones posted a list of the top 11 political sex scandal apologies other than Weinergate

• Mashable noted that the United Nations has declared Internet access a human right

• Macleans ran an online poll asking if the new Parliament can be more civil

• Crooks and Liars gave a nod to an essay by Nicholas Kristof in the New York Times about the Tea Party utopia – which, apparently, is Pakistan

• They also poked fun at Fox News, who flanked a story on Sarah Palin with a photo of comedian Tina Fey, despite the fact that Palin is one of their own employees

• BoingBoing posted this old instructional film from the 1950s, which was created to teach people how to dial with their brand new rotary phones

• They also examined how doctors first noticed the existence of AIDS in 1981

• Slashdot noted that 25% of American hackers are FBI or CIA informants

• They also noted that the periodic table now has two new elements

• According to Schneier on Security, MI6 hacked into an online al-Qaeda magazine and replaced an article on making bombs with a cupcake recipe

• Yesterday was the International Day of Slayer, according to Chart

• Dumb Little Man posted a list of six easy networking tips for introverts

Finally, over at democracy101.ca, I posted this, this and this. More to come today!

• The Globe and Mail reported on the page who disrupted Friday’s Speech from the Throne with a “Stop Harper” sign, her firing, and the wave of support she’s received since

• They also reported on a group of Toronto researchers who hope to apply principles of traffic flow in computer networks to a study of “servers” in the human brain

• If that’s not nerdy/impressive enough for you, then maybe you’ll enjoy this report on a team of international scientists who have supposedly unlocked the secrets of antimatter

• Macleans posted a list of eleven young Canadians to watch

• The CBC reported on an election in Portugal in which the existing socialist government was unseated by the centre-right social democratic opposition

• They also reported on a data breach over at Nintendo

• Not to mention bringing us a look at the wave of vigils held in China on Saturday, commemorating the twenty-second anniversary of the crackdown in Tiananmen Square

• The Green Party weighed in on the potential merits of Canada’s plan to set up new international military bases

• Over at Sexy Typewriter, my good friend Sofi posted her new life motto

• Crooks and Liars gave a nod to Howard Dean and his claim that even Sarah Palin could beat Barack Obama in 2012 if the Democrats don’t do something about the economy

• BoingBoing brought us a look at “anime Doctor Who”

• blogTO posted their latest Neighbourhood Mixtape

• The Globe and Mail reported that Dimitri Soudas, director of communications for the Prime Minister’s Office, is stepping down

• They also noted that it’s apparently much easier for a terror suspect to get onto no-fly watch lists than it is to get off

• A man in Toronto’s west end has been accused of beating raccoons with a shovel

• Macleans reported that a majority of Canadians don’t support certain key Tory policies

• The CBC reported that Health Canada is currently reviewing two studies that show that Yasmin, the highest-selling birth control pill in the country, may put women at higher risk of blood clots

• For some strange reason, the fertility doctor who helped that “Octomom” lady have fourteen children has just had his license revoked

• BoingBoing noted that YouTube has pledged to give its users the option of attributing a Creative Commons license to their videos, starting at 9:00 AM PST today

• They’ve also noted that two New York hotels involved in recent high-profile sexual assault cases have given their housekeepers panic buttons to use in the event of attack – and a union for hotel workers is now working on legislation to make these buttons mandatory at all New York hotels

• Slashdot gave a nod to an emerging debate over the merits of mining Jupiter, Saturn, and other gas giants for fuel; plenty of jokes about mining Uranus for gas soon followed

• They also acknowledged that DC Comics has basically rebooted its entire fictional universe

• Meanwhile, the Canadian government has declared the issue of cybersecurity to be “foremost in importance” among a list of consultation topics related to Canada-US security

• Speaking of which, apparently, North Korea is training cyberwarriors abroad

• Not only that, but Mashable also ran a story about Chinese hackers targeting domestic activists and US government officials in a recent Gmail phishing attack

• They also acknowledged that the San Francisco Giants have become the first professional baseball team to say it gets better

• The Atlantic noted that a certain unfortunately-named congressman can’t say for sure if that’s his junk in a lewd photo that was posted through his Twitter account this week

• Human Rights Watch reported on the detaining, interrogation and beating of several protesters by Iraqi authorities in Baghdad

• Amnesty International weighed in with their own statement

• Feministing examined the ways in which private prisons in the US are profiting from the anti-immigrant movement

• They also wished us all a happy pride month

• As blogTO noted, it’s also Toronto bike month

• Chart rightly declared the Lonely Island “the best rap band in the world”

• Shaq announced his retirement on Twitter

• Pat Robertson once again said something unbelievably idiotic, according to Mother Jones

• The latest in the One Hundred Months series is a list of ten steps to tackle climate change

• Lifehacker took a look at the four stages of teaching yourself to cook

• Dumb Little Man examined the simplest way to improve your creativity, health and relationships

• Gizmodo posted a series of tips on surviving the modern day breakup

Finally, over at democracy101.ca, I posted this, this, this and this.

• The Globe and Mail reported that stress disorders affect 25% of Canadian soldiers returning from Afghanistan

• They’ve also reported that Mayor Rob Ford is calling on a court to delay a review of his campaign expenses

• The CBC reported that carbon emissions related to energy consumption apparently hit a record high in 2010

• Macleans, meanwhile, noted that “the federal government for the UN deliberately omitted data showing that Canada’s oilsands accounted for a 20 per cent increase in emissions”

• The White House posted a transcript of President Obama’s remarks at yesterday’s Memorial Day service

• HuffPost Canada ran an open letter to the Prime Minister – from Raffi!

• rabble.ca hosted a forum on progressive activism in the age of the Harper majority, which you can now watch online

• BoingBoing reported on an unlikely confrontation yesterday between the KKK and the Westboro Baptist Church, which must have been a real meeting of the minds

• Also on BoingBoing, PBS went and got itself hacked

• The chairman of Fox News has a bomb-proof office meant to protect him from gays and al-Qaeda, according to Talking Points Memo

• A blogger over at the official Green Party website shared a phone call she recently got from “another new vote,” which seems a bit crass

• Lifehacker posted a list of projects you can tackle on the extra day of a long weekend

Finally, over at democracy101.ca, I posted this, this and this.

• The Globe and Mail reported on the mysterious disappearance of “dozens of pages” from the archived RCMP intelligence file on Canadian socialist icon Tommy Douglas

• They also reported on proposed Conservative legislation that would “bring about the most important changes to the Senate since Confederation,” imposing term limits on senators and allowing provinces to hold senate elections whenever seats become available

• The Health Council of Canada announced that despite an investment of seven years and billions of dollars, Canada’s health care system has only made incremental progress toward the goals set in 2004

• Three people were wounded at an early morning shooting at an after-hours club in Kensington Market

• On the other hand, as Torontoist reported, the future of the Garden Car is secure

• blogTO posted its latest Neighbourhood Mixtape

• The Toronto Star ran a profile of a new study that offers hope for those at risk of relapse into depression, based on differences in brain activity between subjects who relapsed under testing and those who didn’t

• They also took the time to cover this thing

• Crooks and Liars noted that despite a poll showing that only 17% of Republicans hold a “strongly favourable” view of Sarah Palin, former presidential candidate and running mate John McCain actually believes that she could beat Barack Obama in 2012, even though he made short work of the both of them in 2008

• Slashdot noted the Chinese military’s admission of the existence of its cyberwarfare unit

• The CBC, meanwhile, reported on a “significant and tenacious” cyberattack on US defense contractor Lockheed Martin

• The NME collected a series of tributes to Gil Scott-Heron, who passed away on Friday at the age of sixty-two

• Also in the NME, Lady Gaga helped me win a year-old good-natured argument with my wife by announcing that she, like me, hates the video for “Telephone”

• Speaking of bad news for my wife – and just about everyone else, in this case – Kate Bush apparently has no plans whatsoever to play live again

• Create Digital Music profiled an album that can only be heard in one location

• Dumb Little Man posted a list of five “quietly powerful strategies to ‘press play’ on your dream life”

There you have it! Good to be back. I’ll do my best to keep this up from now on.

• The election campaigning marched on with little improvement in tone, as the Liberals pledged to improve access to health care in the North on one hand, while demanding another investigation into Conservative campaign spending practices on the other

• The Conservatives made a vow to expedite the removal of “dangerous foreign criminals” from Canada, and promised to expand the nation’s highway system

• They also pointed a finger at Michael Ignatieff, accusing him – directly, strangely – of falsely attributing a quote to Stephen Harper in a recent attack ad dealing with health care

• The Liberals responded by pledging to change the ad, asking their supporters to choose their favourite Harper health care quote from a list that arguably includes some much more damning options

• Meanwhile, the NDP issued a pledge of support to cities, along with a call for an extra advanced poll “to ensure Canadians who cannot vote over the holiday weekend have another opportunity to vote in advance of the May 2 general election”

• They also took Ignatieff to task on health care, wondered aloud when the Liberals plan to take down the campaign signs of a candidate they disowned after it came to light that he once founded a white rights organization, and accused Harper of “playing the same partisan games with Quebec he used to denounce”

• The Walrus posted an open letter to incumbent Conservative MP Garry Breitkreuz, and to his party by extension

• Over at Spacing, John Lorinc took a look at the future of the waterfront

• blogTO posted a list of Earth Day events happening in Toronto this year

• Create Digital Music told us about an app that scans barcodes and turns them into music

• The AV Club agreed that last night’s episode of How I Met Your Mother was pretty good

• Lifehacker suggested tricking yourself into working by breaking your tasks down to a “For Dummies” level, along with leaving a little uncertainty in your plans for better work

Finally, over at Babylon Telecom, something weird happened.

• The election campaigning continued in the official party news feeds as the Liberals took a look at one opponent’s history of courting the gun lobby, and celebrated the anniversary of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms with a knock at Stephen Harper

• The Conservatives, meanwhile, renewed their vow to crack down on human smuggling

• The NDP issued a pledge to fight elder abuse, took Ignatieff to task on his record on abortion rights, and turned up the heat on Liberal backing of the HST in British Columbia

• Lastly, the Greens posted “the real Bruce Carson story,” examining “the bizarre criminal, financial and sexual past of this former aide to Stephen Harper”

• Rabble published a piece by blogger Lewis Rifkind about the future of resources and economics in Canada’s north

• blogTO published the latest edition in its Neighbourhood Mixtape series, intended to “celebrate Toronto’s music culture and provide a forum to listen to and discover new local music”

• Finally, Lifehacker posted a list of the five best job sites, along with a look at a number of ways to keep your task list healthy and focused