Capital City weather: Terrible green-black skies opened into a thunderstorm just as Y slid into the car; the downpour was with us for about 40 miles. Homeward bound, though, G spotted a fabulous double rainbow, at about Springfield.

Copying Off Alane

• Knowing Their Politics by the Software They Use: Bush website: Microsoft; Kerry: open source.
  
• I actually noted this top 15 circulating books list in Library Journal yesterday. Here it is on the Christian Science Monitor's website.
  

From Tonight's Class
The Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center is "the world's largest and most comprehensive Native American museum and research center." As ever, my mind was stuck in the southeast: I know the Pequot aren't a southern tribe, so they must live in the west, right? Imagine my surprise to find we're talking about Connecticut.