Mrs. Tilton has come out of retirement, and if you don’t know how good news that is, take a look at her old blog, and your in for a treat. Note the new address.

Max Sawicky has a new MT blog.
Before the holidays, Norman Geras and Robert Tagorda also moved, and switched to Movable Type.
Oh, and let’s give Scott a proper link to his new blog (another change to MT.)

I’ve moved it to pedantry.fistfulofeuros.net. I’m putting this note here because, unfortunately, you can’t get to that URL because DNS to it has been cut off for a few hours. This is the third time our ISP has done this in a week - propagate DNS for a subdomain and then cancel it [...]

…but I think you’d enjoy reading them anyway. While we get all exercised about one small corner of Eurasia, they’re eyeballing exciting things from around the whole world.
The inimitable Bruce Sterling:
Beyond the Beyond
The slightly wacked Cory Doctorow and the definitely out there Mark Frauenfelder:
A Directory of Wonderful Things
Getting more or less serious about building a [...]

Over on Crooked Timber, Maria Farrell has some thoughts on the coming Irish EU Presidency and why the presidencies of small countries seem to get more achieved than those of the large countries. (She’s following on from this FT article)
The whole post is well-worth reading and I heartily recommend it, but she ends with an [...]

British Spin, the anonymous author of the British Politics weblog makes an interesting suggestion about how European politics could become more interesting:
One of the problems of Europe (of many) is that it is just too respectful. It is a good sign for Europe when various leaders clearly wish to bitchslap each other. Frankly, to build [...]

Following certain rather snarky remarks by a blogger that shall not be named, I want to clarify that in the preceding post I’m not actually expressing excitement; I feign excitement. Or rather, I am of course excited and my faux excitement is a way of mocking myself and commenting on my excitement, and at the [...]

Jonathan Edelstein celebrated his first blog anniversary two days ago. His weblog, the Head Heeb, is one of the best blogs I’ve had the fortune to read. He writes eloquently and authoritatively about Isreael/Palestine, Africa, Polynesia(!), Jewish communities around the world, Jewish history, and plenty of other topics. Most of his post are on topics [...]

Sorry, I’m back. I’ve been keeping myself kinda busy over the last two weeks. On my travels I met what you could consider to be a pretty bright programmer: he writes spider programmes. Now if you were silly enough to want to sit in the first few rows of a concert from some [...]

Today’s election day in Northern Ireland, which gives me an opportunity to plug the invaluble Slugger O’Toole.