From the Heart of Europe

• Space Station tour: Commander Sunita Williams shows you her orbiting home.
  Wow. Just, wow.
  (tags: space )
• Inside disputed Western Sahara
  Al-Jazeera gets into it.
  (tags: westernsahara )
• The Discworld Reading Order Guide
  All in one nice graphic.
  (tags: pratchett sf )
• Swedish Academy reopens controversy surrounding Steinbeck's Nobel prize
  ...as he beat Robert Graves and Lawrence Durrell.
  (tags: nobel books )

Over at www.pepysdiary.com, they have again started issuing the great diarist's journal entries for each day, 1660 reflecting forward to 2013. I have syndicated to livejournal at pepys_diary. The opening months are particularly dramatic as he witnesses at close hand the collapse of the British government after ten years of the Cromwellian commonwealth and finds himself intimately involved, though at junior level, with the installation of the new regime in May. Strongly recommended.