The post-mortems begin!

"If [Obama] ends up winning, the skeptics—of whom I have been one—will have to acknowledge that the Obama team understands something important about twenty-first century politics that we don’t."

Strictly speaking, anything but a Blackberry!

Tony looks at the Princes in the Tower.

The wonderful homoerotic art of J.C. Leyendecker

Very short piece reminding us of the dismal quality of most US news coverage.

Hilarious.

Folks, every day is defriending amnesty day as far as I am concerned!

Fantastic pic.

On neurology and nonsense.

@ITregillis wrote more about this last year at http://bit.ly/QKpygf and subsequent. (Warning: rabid libertarian comments.)

"Can't you, Mr Earl, understand the modern world?"

An accidental election technology specialist writes.

A relatively objective guide.

University administrator trying unsuccessfully to hide his excitement!

One for the Christmas list.

Might be worth a try. I use Evernote.

Died 35 years ago today.

Prize-winning art through the years

Awww!

Iraq was more important.

Judy Dempsey rebutts her critics.

Not convinced by explanation that feminist gains were reversed due to factional conflict within the wider revolutionary movement. I would eant to see evidence that Republicanism had really internalized feminism in the first place. My suspicion is that, like the Labour movement, politicized women were convenient allies for the leadership of SF (and…

Of sea-pigs and loanwords. (Do read comments too.)

"The I.B.M. Bluefire supercomputer in the basement of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., is so large that it essentially creates its own weather."

The shift from major to minor keys in Top 40 hits.

From 2008. I missed this at the time.

There you go again!

Probably not.

See chapters 8 and 9 about Julian Assange.