This is a pretty cool description of how a bail-out is supposed to work. (From John Naughton, who got it from the Financial Times ( Read more... )

Suzuki Beane. Go read it.

It's a picture book from 1961 about a little beatnik girl. It is charming and lovely and brilliant and from another time but in a good way.

I am proud to say that I have been a single space person all my life.

A lot of western media has missed this, but for the first time a popular revolt has toppled an arab dictatorOf course, most of what's getting reported is the "twitter revolution" phrase. Which, to give social media it's due, did seem to help. Protesters used Facebook, twitter and YouTube to provide updates of the spreading protests despite heavy ( Read more... )

Or right turns if you drive in Australia or the UK.

It seems that turning against the traffic when driving uses more fuel, takes more time and causes more accidents than turning left and doing a u-turn further down the road.

The Westbro Baptist Church is that group that protests at the funerals of American soliders with signs saying "God Hates America" and "God Hates Fags" and sees the death of soldiers as divine retribution for America's tolerance of homosexuality and regligious pluralism.

Apparently they're planning a similar protest at the funeral of the Tucson ( Read more... )

This ABC news article has a decent summary of the Arizona shooting and then quotes some of the ensuing comments about whether the increasingly violent rehtoric in American political debate is to blame ( Read more... )

But it's not looking too bad, I think ( Read more... )

From Annabel Crabb at the Drum. The rape jokes and geek hacker jokes are a bit tacky, but appart from that it's very funny.

I never thought I'd have to sign a petition to reinforce the rule of law, but there you goIt's pretty short and sweet. Which I like ( Read more... )