While waiting for their yearly 50 Most Loathsome list, here's the Buffalo Beast's Eight Most Awesome Drone Stories of 2011.

And David Bentley Hart gives Steven Pinker's latest piece of reductionist gibberish a right kicking. (Via IOZ.)

I've also been having some kind of fun watching author interviews at the Wheeler Centre's site and at the Sydney Opera House's Ideas at the House thang. So there's that.