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Editor Log: November 2012 (log) by The Custodian

I almost never write editor logs. Probably because I (guiltily) view what I do here as something on the order of sneaking around the wainscoting when nobody's looking, at least as far as 'being editorial' goes. I don't really consider my level of effort worthy of the buttons, but somehow I haven't convinced the relevant people to take 'em back.

I don't want you thinking this is some form of golly-gee-whiz self-deprecation. This is basically a model for how I view myself and my life, and I fully recognize that in some part of arguable proportion it is a symptom. But I haven't discovered anything that I can do about it, so for now...yeah.

And now for something completely different. Because Ed logs shouldn't be about eds.

One of the things the estimable jaybonci has done since his triumphant conquistadorial return is to give some of us access to the Google webmaster tools analytics data about this here our site. There's a wealth of stuff in there. Some of it is…

Zeerust (thing) by Zephronias

Have you ever looked at some old-timey science fiction book covers, comics, or even TV shows from the 50's, 60's (or earlier) and found yourself thinking, "this looks really out of date"?

Maybe it's just the way the buildings don't look quite right. Maybe it's because the robots look all big and cumbersome and they've all got…

Statements that would be shocking to people living in 1975 (idea) by Pandeism Fish

I'll start with the obvious. There's this Black guy with a foreign-sounding name (named for his father, who was right off the boat from Kenya)-- who was elected President of these United States. And re-elected. And with a Roman Catholic Vice-President to boot.

It is legal for homosexual couples to marry in ten states-- including Iowa. And, an openly gay woman has been elected to the US Senate -- from Wisconsin.

That director Steven Spielberg -- the one who made …