Andy Carling: "Brussels calls itself the Capital of Europe and acts like an obscure hamlet."

@lizbatty has an impressive collection.

Dave Langford on the Titanic's SF connections.

It helps if your country has a large, literate private security industry.

Stross predicts death of DRM.

Former TSA head speaks out.

One of the more interesting posts you'll see about the centenary.

Stephen's is one you can't see.

A linguistics blog discusses Doctor Who.

Hooray! A Freddy read-through! (Nobody else will understand this.)

Horoscopes as black propaganda in the Second World War.

"The euro is a long way from both collapse and recovery. But no nearer one than the other."

a projection from 1981 for rising temperatures in a major science journal, at a time that the temperature rise was not yet obvious in the observations, has been found to agree well with the observations since then, underestimating the observed trend by about 30%

Georgian cuisine is the best I've ever tasted.

Long before Stephen Baxter!

"The committee would like to issue a broad and unreserved apology"

Apparently it does survive rereading. Must do so some time.

Excellent summary of the few facts known about the separatist movement.

Excellent commentary from the deputy program head of #Eastercon.

Another cool science video from @protons4b via @Stephen_curry

The fantastic video of film from the ISS shown at #Eastercon closing ceremony.

Doesn't quite do what it says on the tin.

xkcd on depth.

A sad story from New Hampshire.

Scandinavia, obviously; but some surprising outposts elsewhere.

Brilliant piece.

A response from a BSFA person.

A description of the awful opening speech.

So we conclude. "He is rather predictable in his unpredictability. Luckily he is usually charismatic enough to carry it off while you're actually watching"