Endnotes

I know this blog has turned into the dictatorship channel recently (that's what I'm teaching at the moment; look out for it to turn into a "history of political thought" blog in a few months). But the internets are full of great writing, much of it thankfully about other subjects:

• Justin E. H. Smith on The Blog as Mask and Gravestone. And while you're at it, read most of his oeuvre. I loved On the Internet and Elephant Wars also, among many, many others. 
• Zunguzungu on Mau Mau and Guantanamo.
• Shotgun Shack on the fragility of everyday life in many parts of the world. (Via Chris Blattman's shared items feed).
• Natalia Cecire on academic blogging. (Via Zunguzungu)
• Duflo and Banerjee on poverty. 
• The Art of Not Being Governed in action in North Korea.
• If you can't get enough of dictatorship and political science, the Monkey Cage has been excellent lately. (And Henry Farrell there has been kind enough to send some links this way).
• Peter Moskos on flogging. (Via Eric Crampton, who has very interesting commentary. This seems ripe for a Foucauldian take, though I'm not sure what it would be). 
• This almost fits into the "extremophiles" blogging category, which I haven't done in a while: bacteria that emit radio waves.
• [Update] I almost forgot: Kevin Kelly on rapidly oscillating evolution. 

This and more also found in my Google Reader shared items feed.