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Michael Steele compares the Romney campaign to Star Wars:

quite

Anyone read Timothy Mo? I just finished The Redundancy of Courage, a retelling of the Indonesian invasion of East Timor. He's an interesting novelist, after three Booker shortlistings in the 80s and early 90s he got pissed off with all agents and publishers everywhere and started...

it looks good. the cover is lovely. well done for getting it out there!

Supposedly the evidence includes an expenses claim for £500 marked 'for paying police officer'

http://theartofgooglebooks.tumblr.com/ I could look at random tumblrs like this all day

Narziss and Goldmund is great as well

megaupload has been shut down

I'm sure others have got more to say about the laws themselves, but I wanted to vent for a second The Guardian has decided to run an oh-so-hilarious Guardipedia whilst Wikipedia is blocked out, where you can ask questions that you normally would use wikipedia for. The comments are mostly people...

Well no-one would argue with that. The new Supreme Court 'money is speech' stroke of genius for one thing. Also:

I really hope so Also party donations. Not exactly the same, but pretty close

i used to have these two books. they were amazing, especially the second one (in fact, now I think of it, about half the children's books and tapes I can remember were either written or narrated by tony robinson. legend)

i'm definitely not coming back to england until it's all over and out of the papers and off the telly

Olympic Bullshit Watch Bit early to start whining about the olympics, but never mind: Games chief tells Britain to wake up to 'extraordinary opportunity' of Olympics Funnily enough, comments aren't switched on for this particular piece of crack reporting

congrats! I for one can certainly appreciate the effort it takes :)

The series was great, of course. I read the second book over christmas (I started the first, but soon found I couldn't be bothered because I knew what was going to happen), and it was... ok. Had me hooked, definitely, but probably because I was reading it on an 8-hour train journey with nothing...

Perdido Street Station was lots of fun. The new one (Embassy-something?) sounded good. However, I took King Rat out the library a few months back and it was incredibly, mind-numbingly awful. A mix of the Pied Piper fairytale and (cringe-inducing) descriptions of the 90s dnb scene