Good piece. But wrongly states that Eritrea is "between Sudan, Ethiopia and Somalia" - no border with Somalia or even Somaliland, Djibouti is in between..

Steve Mollmann reviews one of the best of the DC range.

Introduction to a series of posts about the classic comic by a flawed creator.

The lost great modernist poem.

127 light years away, and only planet in habitable zone is gas giant.

The United States imprisons a larger percentage of its black population than South Africa did at the height of apartheid,

Intermittent clashes since January have in the past month turned into substantial military engagement on the ground, with repeated reports of aerial bombardment by Sudan.

US (lower 48) only, but a lovely piece of work.

Lovecraft a la Seuss!

Blame the victim, not the perpetrator. As usual.

The flaws of the ECI.

It's the inequality, stupid.

When history and property development clash.

"Moderately decent people are out of their depth when they come face to face with the unquestionably wicked, and rarely react with the necessary toughness. 1992 was a repeat of 1938. We failed yet again to learn from history."

The Belgian political sexual harassment scandal. (In Dutch.)

Fixed! Hooray!

Fascinating.

Long but fascinating: the truth about GW Bush's National Guard service.

Headline slightly oversells interesting conclusion.

Christopher Priest on the Clarke shortlist, again

Please can I have this book for my birthday?

With a note on "retrocopulate".

Interesting account of retrieving ancient (1970s/80s) spacecraft data.

The Internet dunnit.

Not many people, I suspect.

In a word, unpleasant.

"In the last two years British newspapers have been promising more or less the same thing to Eurozone citizens: collapse, soon." Yet it hasn't happened.

#fb "We entered Afghanistan and tried to make it comply with our fantasy, ignorant of its already complex realities."

Kinder than me to Bear and Mieville. (Agree on Magary.)