Please don't take this as a knock of the efforts required to produce the Ruby weekly news, but I was curious about the criteria for inclusion. There were a few threads and announcements of interest this past week that weren't mentioned. For example, Tom Sawyer <transami / transami.net> began a thread titled "ambiguity between local variable assignment and writter method". Phil Tomson's article in Dr. Dobbs magazine was also announced, albeit informally. Neither were mentioned in the last weekly news roundup. Just wondering ... James