I missed last week’s What’s Up Wednesdays post, because I had linked to December 2007’s top commentators just the day before. Having two speedlink posts back to back might be a bit much, methinks, so I think it was a good decision to take that route. This week, however, I’m back to my regular blogging duties on Beyond the Rhetoric, so let’s see what other people are talking about this week.

Ed Lau is known to be the seeker of all things awesome and this week is no exception. It’s definitely on the weirder side of things, but Ed has unearthed a very strange commercial for the Microsoft Zune featuring all sorts of senseless violence. What’s more, it would be gut-wretchingly cute if it wasn’t for the dismemberment and such. You’ve got to watch the video all the way to the end, because it suddenly transforms from Braveheart to Across the Universe.

Lisa Jones went on maternity leave three years ago so that she could have her two children. During that time, her husband become the sole breadwinner for the family. Well, after all this time, Lisa is ready to go back to work, but not at full capacity. She loves spending time at home, so she’s going to wean herself back into the workforce. In her own words, “The consumate career woman [has] gone domestic.”

Darren Barefoot has quite the varied blog, covering all sorts of random things. More recently, he dug up 44 fascinating things you probably don’t know about Shakespeare. I was an English minor in university, so this topic is right up my alley. Did you know that “Hamlet was the only play performed at both Oxford and Cambridge during Shakespeare’s lifetime. At the time, academics frowned on English drama as common.”

Etienne Teo spends a lot of time on his computer, so he’s perfectly aware of all the risks associated with his Internet journeys. As such, he has come up with several ways to keep your identity safe and clear from spammers. Need a disposable email address? How about a fake phone number that actually works?

Bob Buskirk must have been intrigued by our dot com pho lunches here in Vancouver, so he decided to have his first pho in Las Vegas. Unfortunately, what he got isn’t exactly authentic and it’s totally Vegas-priced. It’s not authentic Vietnamese cuisine unless it’s served by a Vietnamese family working out of a not-so-sanitary kitchen. Bob even forgot to add the hoisin and hot sauce!