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Via weegoddess and cowgrrl, a plausible explanation of the DDoS attacks on LJ (that LJ is home to a number of Russian anti-corruption blogs). I can't say how reliable this information is, but the latest LJ News post says "These attacks are against multiple journals worldwide, several of which are political in nature," which is consistent.

The Census again: the Guardian trails an article about the Suffragette boycott of the 1911 census (the full article in History Workshop is online, but I admit I haven't read it). Arguing that "if women don't count, neither shall they be counted," some women spent the night outside, to avoid being listed as on the premises; others simply refused to fill in the form. Emily Wilding Davison spent the night in a broom cupboard in the Houses of Parliament; Miss Davies of Birkenhead listed only a male servant on her form, adding "no other persons, but many women."

There's a new release of the WordPress blogging software. The release comes with a (not very) explanatory haiku:
Only the geeks know
What half this stuff even means
Don’t worry — update

Speaking of poetic forms, Wendy Cope demonstrates the villanelle; I have no idea what Hugo Williams had done to deserve this.

Also from the Guardian, some suggestions for highlights of the Camino de Santiago in Spain. The paper version ran alongside a piece by Tim Moore, whose book convinced me that I never wanted to walk the Spanish section, but I'd like to see it some day. But now it seems there's a movie, so we'd better give it a year or so to blow over...