Four Stone Hearth #107, the archaeology/anthropology carnival, is up at Archive Fire.

Anthony Gorman reviews Robert L. Tignor's Egypt: A Short History for the THE, 2 December.

Dwight Garner,"Laughing Matters: Discuss," NYT, 7 December, reviews Paul Johnson's Humorists: From Hogarth to Noël Coward.

Daniel Drezner's"Why WikiLeaks Is Bad for Scholars," CHE, 6 December, takes issue with Timothy Garton Ash's"US embassy cables: A banquet of secrets," Guardian, 28 November.

Our colleague, Aaron Bady, continues to do extraordinary work on the wikileaks documents. His"Julian Assange and the Computer Conspiracy; ‘To destroy this invisible government'," zunguzungu, 29 November, is nominated for 3 Quarks Daily's annual prize in politics. His"‘Two-handed engine': Wikileaks, the Defense of Diplomatic Secrecy, and East Timor," zunguzungu, 7 December, is featured on The Browser's"Writing Worth Reading: Best of the Moment".