First a new blog from the new democrats. Calling itself the ‘sharp edge of the vital centre’, it is another good place to track the US election, and yet more proof from the new dems that you can have strong views without being on the fringes:
Another blog, but this time unwaveringly fascinated with gaffes, indiscretions and gossip from Washington:
After all that high politics… This blog covers the by-election in Hartlepool with exactly the same minute attention given to Washington:
http://guacamoleville.blogspot.com/
Enough blogs! Did you know that only one vice president of the US has his own museum dedicated to his deeds and to his philosophy? Guess which one? It’s J Danforth Quayle. A man who probably has trouble spelling his own name, even the ‘J’.
Nearer home, the aspiring pundit can play around with election results at leisure… Constituency by constituency you can model scenarios.
http://www.financialcalculus.co.uk/election/index.html?conlist_f_k.html
This site records all Private Eye covers, as social documents go, it’s big laughs.
http://www.ugandandiscussions.co.uk/
Talking of news organs, this is the best site Progress Report knows of for collecting and collating primate related news. It may be Dutch chimps trying to seek asylum in Spain or the problem of smoking chimps in China. But it’s not just Chimps. Tarsiers, Orangs, The Slow Loris, all primates are covered:
Finally, do you remember how good the future used to be? Have a look:
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/news_events/exhibits/futuristics/oddities/15.html
In fact, there is a whole museum here, of futures that turned out to be neverwases:
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/news_events/exhibits/futuristics/index.html