Random Link Friday.

* Happy 90th Birthday, Nelson Mandela.

* With the passage of a major new wind power initiative, is Texas now the most energy-conscious state in the union?

* Top 10 7 religions you never knew existed. (Who didn't know about Jainism, Falun Gong, and the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church?)

* Wikipedia's list of unsolved problems in diverse fields like physics, linguistics, economics, cognitive science, and philosophy.

Man, I've been slack today. Here are a few things I've been looking at:

* A list of science fiction with a linguist bent.
* 'The Return of the Paranoid Style': How Iraq brought us not John Wayne but Jason Bourne.
* Every bit of spoiler news there is about the upcoming season of Battlestar Galactica.
* New York Governor David Peterson's daily revelations are becoming sort of hilarious.
* Eric Alterman on the death of the American newspaper.
* The end of suburbia, this time in the Boston Review.
* We're #22! We're #22!