The Mother of All Quagmires: Michael Totten reports from Israel.
And Still I Persist has video of Obama’s Al-Arabiya interview.
Geoffrey Pullum at Language Log: "human/machine interface design is in a state of total freaking disaster".
Lileks's bleat: World’s Fairs, scrapbook memories and modern day America.
And finally,
Baroque in Hackney has something to say about Elizabeth Alexander’s inaugural poem.
