Here's an interesting article from National Geographic (of all places) on female suicide bombers and what their background was - were they religious fanatics? It doesn't sound like it: Female Suicide Bombers: Dying to Kill

This must be educational because it came from the ResourceShelf blog:
Games for the Brain. I've only tried Dragger so far but that was fun...
Here's a photo from the Wairarapa last week, mid-winter dusting of snow on the Tararuas.