If you’re interested in finding out what British bloggers are talking about then you’ll probably find Tim Worstall’s first BritBlog Roundup rather useful. He’s hoping to make it a weekly event, similar to other blog roundups like the Carnival of the Vanities, and if you want to contribute or be featured then you can find [...]

Micael Froomkin left a comment:
How nice to see my favorite under-appreciated blogger turn up at one of my favorite appreciated sites.
Now if you could only get them to spill the beans on how they implemented that anti-spam measure in the comments box?”
Like hell we are. Yes, we get mentions in Foreign Affairs and award nominations, [...]

I’ve started to blog regularly on Europundit after a year of v. sporadic updates. It’s all links to things I find interesting. Also have a spiffy new design.

A former US guard says he unwittingly gave Nazi leader Hermann G?ring the poison he used to commit suicide…. Story.

If you haven’t yet noticed, voting has now opened for the first AFOE European Weblog Awards, so you can now get voting.
And in other awards news, we’ve been nominated for Best Group Weblog in the 2005 Bloggies, so if you’re not completely tired of voting for stuff then please consider voting for us in that.

Tony Judt reviews three books about Europe and America in the New York Review of Books. He’s nothing extremely original to say, but he’s eminently, and refreshingly sensible. Go read it.
The general topic should be good for a discussion.

It’s in German, but the idea behind this game should be obvious to everyone - it gives you a capital city and you have to ‘throw’ a dart to hit its location on the map. I was closest to the centre of Lisbon (just 18km out, which is effectively a direct hit, given the scale [...]

For those of you who haven’t alrady seen it through other blogs, European Commission Vice-President Margot Wallstr?m now has a weblog on her official site. There are no comments yet, and no gossip about what happens in meetings of the Commission, but it’s an interesting step forward.

In addition to our own European blog awards, I note that via Crooked Timber (and in turn from The Head Heeb) the people at alt.muslim are taking votes for the First Annual Brass Crescent Awards. This selection of blogs and posts on Islam or by Muslims offers some much needed diversity in the discussion [...]

With their symposium on China Mi?ville, our friends over at Crooked Timber have set a mark for the rest of us to jump for. Seven perceptive posts all about one author, along with a response from the writer himself. Plus lively debates in the comments on several of the threads.
Thanks for the great reading, and [...]