The sun heads into the southern hemisphere today, but yesterday Stockholmers soaked up every last ray. In Söder, the terraces on Skånegatan were packed, and the park was crowded with young families. As the afternoon progressed, the shadows lengthened, and the entire park migrated to the dwindling patch of sunlit grass, where I happened to sit, latté in one hand, The Economist in the other.

I had this curious vision that we were surrounded, pushed together by a rising tide of darkness.

Today, I finished off the redesign and redeployment of MemeFirst, my other blog, a group blog that ferrets out new memes of all kinds. The subject matter usually revolves around politics and culture, but you’d be forgiven just this very moment if you thought it was about smut in Sweden.