If you're a US citizen, travel, and are security minded...

Bruce Schneier advises you may want to renew your passport right away. Lead paragraph:

"If you have a passport, now is the time to renew it -- even if it's not set to expire anytime soon. If you don't have a passport and think you might need one, now is the time to get it. In many countries, including the United States, passports will soon be equipped with RFID chips. And you don't want one of these chips in your passport."

Read it all for the details.

Fredrik Reinfeldt valet stora segrare

Which is another way of saying, there was an election today in Sweden. The long-dominant Social Democrats are out, the Moderates are in, and Fredrik Reinfeldt is almost certainly the next Prime Minister. This brings Göran Persson's 10-year tenure as Prime Minister to a close. For those who can read Swedish, here's the story from Dagens Nyheter.

One can only think that today is the final harvest of the murder of Anna Lindh, who was Foreign Minister and most likely to be the next leader of the Social Democrats (and thus leading the party during this election) when she was stabbed on 9/11 2003.