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Very attractive cartograms, based on travel and media statistics, taken from The Atlas of the Real World: Mapping the Way We Live by Daniel Dorling, Mark Newman and Anna Barford
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Starting with legendary Zimbabwean graphic designer Chaz Maviyane-Davies, 30 designers will offer online posters encouraging people to vote Obama in 2008
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Technorati's recent State of the Blogosphere points to a maturing culture, with many of the top bloggers now in the game for three years, some revenue models in place, and a shaking out from a "try me" technology to a more mature, lasting one.
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BBC suggests that the US government may be using extraordinary rendition in cooperation with Ethiopian and Somali authorities, arresting people who've fled the violence in Somalia and questioning them – possibly using torture – in Ethiopian jails.
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In a single piece of satire, The Onion manages to summarize "The Big Sort", "Infotopia" and about half a dozen other critical books about US politics. Well done.