A Pew survey on cross-national gender equality finds that "in both developing countries and wealthy ones, there is a pronounced gap
between a belief in the equality of the sexes and how that translates
into reality."

More on the Kos/polling scandal. Sounds like Kos handled it very well. He's planning on suing the polling company.

Yes, I'll admit it. I've taken pictures of myself using PhotoBooth on my Mac, and I've turned my iPhone around to take pictures of myself many times. But that's because I'm the only photographer in this family — I'm always behind the camera and never in front of it. Sometimes I'm concerned that there will be no historical evidence that I ever existed. (But then I remember that I have this dumb blog.)