Fivethirtyeight addresses Australia's change of leadership: [link]

The sky is this freaky bright yellow to the East now.

It was so bizarre last night. Clear and sunny now though.

The Queen is visiting Wimbledon today. The liveblogger may be no Xan Brooks, but he's trying:

If she sticks to the schedule, Her Majesty will be arriving right this second, taking lunch at Midday in the club house, head to the Royal box at 1pm and watch an hour and a half of Andy Murray's match against Jarkko Nieminen before leaving "at an appropriate time". Presumably she means to be away before the zombies return - can you imagine the chaos that would ensue if she got bitten and we wound up with an undead monarch?

It doesn't have quite the same tone of exhausted delirium.

I've been puzzling on how one pronounces Xan. Are we doing the X for christ thing? Christan?

I've been thinking Zan, like Xander/Alexander.

I've been pronouncing it Adorable. Things always sound different in my head.

So last night, we had a bit of a rough patch. After mac fell asleep I went searching for Where the Wild Things are clips. I had never heard of Vore and learning about stuff late at night, just probably not what I need right now. My vanilla little life.

W.T.F., BP??? [link]

All other new projects in the Arctic have been halted by the Obama administration’s moratorium on offshore drilling, including more traditional projects like Shell Oil’s plans to drill three wells in the Chukchi Sea and two in the Beaufort.

But BP’s project, called Liberty, has been exempted as regulators have granted it status as an “onshore” project even though it is about three miles off the coast in the Beaufort Sea. The reason: it sits on an artificial island — a 31-acre pile of gravel in about 22 feet of water — built by BP.

Rather than conducting their own independent analysis, federal regulators, in a break from usual practice, allowed BP in 2007 to write its own environmental review for the project as well as its own consultation documents relating to the Endangered Species Act, according to two scientists from the Alaska office of the federal Mineral Management Service that oversees drilling.

The environmental assessment was taken away from the agency’s unit that typically handles such reviews, and put in the hands of a different division that was more pro-drilling, said the scientists, who discussed the process because they remained opposed to how it was handled.

If you have to build your own island, it DOES NOT FUCKING COUNT AS ONSHORE. STOP FUCKING WITH OUR PLANET, YOU RAT BASTARDS.

Vore? Really? I'm so sorry, msbelle.

I think I'll be in a meeting around when the Isner/Mahut match restarts. Or driving. Fate says it'll be done before I am.

I have no idea what vore is, and I don't want to know.

After mac fell asleep I went searching for Where the Wild Things are clips. I had never heard of Vore and learning about stuff late at night, just probably not what I need right now. My vanilla little life.

Jesus, you found vore links when searching for Where the Wild Things are clips?!?

That ain't right.

(Also? I try really hard not to judge what other people are into, but OMGVOREWTF?!?)

t edit Like, toy boats, I don't get, but don't find it creepy.