Actually, not as far as we can tell.

Interesting legal question - if someone attaches something to your car, is it still theirs?

In case you were wondering what to read by him.

Former speaker of Macedonian parliament Ljupčo Jordanovski, who was acting president of the country after Boris Trajkovski died in a plane crash, has died at the age of 57. I met him a couple of times and he seemed a decent guy. But was surprised when he was (briefly) appointed ambassador to the US as his English was not that great.

The Man in the High Castle to be dramatised. But does Ridley Scott have any form with adapting the works of Philip K. Dick? Oh, hang on, yes he does.

oh god yes

Dealing with marketing phone calls

The declining number of women in (UK) sf.

Further discussion of women in sf

Rogue superpower?

Article summarising the launch of the report I linked the other day.

"...the UUP looks set to produce another raft of candidates for election who are very much more of the same... If so, it is a desperate gamble that relies on a lot of the allegedly stay-away voters suddenly realising that the 1950s are the political era they want to live in."

Achilles and the Tortoise discuss Gini coefficients and New Labour's record

I'm about a third of the way through it at the moment, enjoying it more than expected, for much the same reasons mentioned here.

Glorious - conversation between three of this year's Hugo winners, two of whom are over 90 years old.

Excellent analysis by the defeated leadership candidate of 1995

London is no longer the epicentre of global Jihadist terrorism... The report however challenges notions of a ‘leaderless jihad’ and shows that ‘homegrown’ Jihadism does not exist independently of the international movement.

She goaded her date to "kick [my] ass" and eventually he said "Dorothy, I'm not going to hit someone because you don't like his telephone." She banged her drink down and grunted "If you can't fight Mr Hello Kittyphone maybe you shouldn't be dating me," and stalked off.

Jo Walton revisits an old favourite

Except it wasn't. There was no planned Islamist assassination attempt against the Pope.

Alas, story I linked to yesterday turns out not to be true after all.

Mazlan Othman, the head of the UN's little-known Office for Outer Space Affairs (Unoosa).

French politician Rachida Dati's unfortunate slip of the tongue

Hilarious. Is Castellano a type of cheese or a font? What about Salers?

Jo Walton queries Bilbo's gender identity

Apparently it was all the fault of Sarah Jane Smith.