I ran into this quiz today that apparently determines your political orientation (via Mefi). Very interesting. Turns out that I am a left libertarian (left-right -0.50, Authoritarian/Libertarian: -3.79). I always thought of myself a centrist! Since I am a borderline leftist (only 0.5!) I guess I can call myself a centrist? Anyway, they have interesting questions, gave me pause for thought. Great Reading List too.

Another interesting quiz, Which drink are you? is inching its way up blogdex. I love watching how some interesting new content slowly makes its way up the collective consciousness of the weblog community and suddenly its here, there everywhere. I think blogdex is a greater cultural barometer of the North American Internet cognoscenti (that's a loaded word to use, sounds rather arrogant and is probably not very accurate. but I am groping for a word) than anything else out there.