Our colleague, Sharon Howard, is at the heart of yet another new venture. She and Jonathan Edelstein at Head Heeb have just announced the launch of a new on-line symposium based on the Old Bailey Session Paper database. If you've not visited there, it's the largest on-line primary document source on the net, with the records of 100,000 criminal trials from 1674 to 1834.

Robert Novak, of all people, identifies a cause in which every respectable libertarian, conservative, liberal, and radical in the United States should be able to agree: Remove the name of J. Edgar Hoover from the F. B. I. Building in Washington, D. C. Thanks to Gene Healy at Liberty & Power for the tip.

Linus Kafka's"The Only Way to Win is Cheat," Historiblogography, 30 November, is a thoughtful follow-up to Oscar Chamberlain's"More on Colonel Westhusing" here at Cliopatria; and Oscar's"Wiki-Libel" provoked thoughtful discussions both at Kevin Drum's"Wikipedia" at Political Animal and Tim Burke's"A Different Take on Wikipedia" here at Cliopatria.

Scott Eric Kaufman,"My Morning: A Play in One Uncomfortable Act," Acephalous, 30 November. No description does it justice. I'm satisfied that it's done, from Penn to UC, Irvine, at least, but it does take some special cheek and balls to do it in the prof's office.

Hugo Schwyzer,"The Joys of Faculty Self-Evaluation," Inside Higher Ed, 30 November, tackles a peculiar form of self-torture.