While we are waiting for the polls to close:

Have a look at the Carnival of Evolution and the I and the Bird Carnival. Both have lists of excellent, amazingly wonderful non-political bird and evolution posts, the best of the best in the blogosphere for these topics.

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By request, this open thread is dedicated exclusively to non-political topics. Let's have a race between this one and the political thread and see which can gather the most comments overnight! The loser thread will be closed tomorrow morning.
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I doubt eastern European shops knocking off work for the day is going to have that much impact on this election. I wouldn't wait for the Poles to close.

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