- Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert at the Emmys “Good evening, godless sodomites!” Best thing that’s happened on television ever.
- A huge fluffy planet in another star system appears to be confusing astronomers It’s apparently larger than Jupiter but half the mass. No current theories of planet formation seem to be able to explain it. Super awesome. Other planets. Woof.
- The BBC has an interesting article about the rise of weblogs at political events It still sort of astounds me that seven years after I started my site, and when I kept trying to say to people, “no really, they’re sort of interesting”, with everyone looking at me like I was nuts, that they’ve gone on to take over the whole bloody world