Should you be keen to get an informed handle on the shit currently hitting the fan from Tunis to Cairo, here are four worthy sources to bookmark: the BBC (natch), Al Jazeera in English (double natch), Andrew Sullivan’s Daily Dish and Juan Cole’s always outstanding and up to the minute blog Informed Comment (Cole is the Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan, and is as prolific as he is totally on point). For the more visual sponges among you, take a look at the superlative photos over at The Big Picture; at this quick (but not a little disturbing) video of what yesterday’s protests in Egypt looked like up close; and at this video that suggests the Egyptians have remembered that if the secret to their happiness is freedom then the key to their freedom is courage (watch at 1:22).