One of my new daily reads has come first in the “best written” category in the Guardian’s second British blog awards. It’s the slightly risqué and very enjoyable Belle de Jour, the diary of a London call girl. I join Bruce Sterling in recommending it.

On the opposite side of the spectrum, just now, during a live talk show on Greek television so rowdy that it would make Jeremy Paxman run away, an orthodox priest has just called a psychologist an “antichrist” on account of her short hair.

As soon as I wrote this, and in despair about Greekness made manifest, I speculated on the existence of Greek bloggers with views more closely aligned to mine. The search yielded only a few links. Among them I found what I was looking for in the site of writer and Athens College alumnus Nikos Demou. Back in 1995 he wrote an article in RAM magazine praising the Athens College Scientific Journal, the high-school magazine edited by Raphael and myself (although he complained about the appropriation of one of his cat photographs to illustrate my essay on the metaphysical extensions of Schrödinger’s cat experiment). It’s time to return the praise. For the readers of Greek among you, I reccommend his Sei Shonagon-inspired lists.