The top 21 most-viewed posts on this blog, since its inception (in descending order):

• Australian political language
• Poem:  Song (by Joe Stickney)
• Art: Katie Allen at Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno
• Complexity of communications
• Knowing and understanding The Other
• Obama’s eloquence central to ability to govern
• The birds
• At the hot gates: a salute to Nate Fick
• Hearing is (not necessarily) believing
• The long after-life of design decisions
• Manhattanhenge
• The strange disappearance of British manufacturing
• Nicolas Fatio de Duillier
• Contemporary Chinese ceramics: Liu JianHua
• The Mathematical Tripos at Cambridge
• Vale, Studs Terkel
• Firebird in Bologna
• A data architecture for spimes
• Poem:  Times go by Turns (by Robert Southwell)
• Mr Sculthorpe, please call your office
• Berger on drawing

(Photo of Paul Keating,  credit:  AFR).