Its a sad day again.  Family and friends in London are safe.  Reactions have started pouring in. Simon sent me this link :

"Amid all the chaos of today's atrocities there was one particularly potent irony. In the garden square where terrorists chose to ignite a bomb on a bus full of ordinary people is a statue of Gandhi. It overlooks the wreckage of the attack and it was hard not to wonder what a man whose name is synonymous with change through peaceful protest would have thought of the events of 7 July 2005 and all that led up to them."

How ironic!

And Matt Mower is angry :

And so it begins.

Jeez what a load of hogwash:

Once buried, it will be time to avenge them.

Perhaps the villains' expectation is that the Briton will quail as the Spaniard, reacting to massacre with headlong flight from foreign fields. I think not. About me, I see older Scots with a steely flint in their eyes. The reckoning will come. There is a soul of honor beneath the ribs of death. [Josh Trevino via ScriptingNews]

Irritating prose style aside... have you learned nothing? To talk of vengeance and reckonings while that very scene is playing out?

If it weren't so absurb it would make me very angry indeed. [Curiouser and curiouser!]

This sort of reaction is just stupid. The best thing to do is to go back to work and life the next day. That's retaliation that makes you proud. We did that the day after the Bombay Bomb Blasts in 2003 and much earlier in the riots following the bomb blasts in 1993.

Meanwhile, Wikipedia has outdone itself again with some really great collaborative action ! 

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