If Henry David Thoreau was still living, my guess is he would have figured out climate change by now.
Shell accused of complicity in the murders of 9 in Nigeria.
Belated: New blog carnival of science debuts.
If, being anti-ice cream and anti-socialism, I name ice cream socialist, what happens?. According to DeLong, ice cream lovers might give over their historic dislike of socialism. Because ice cream is tasty. I think this applies more to Western Europe than Obamamania.
Five day pledge continues to go broken.

Gosh, I still call them hyperlinks. What is the newest name for them? I wish I weren’t so old, and could keep up with things.
Well, they’re still called that… but most of the time it’s just “links” now. How much longer before “hyperlink” goes the way of “moving pictures”?