• It seems Facebook has riled the Republicans in the US: after comments made by Facebook exec Randi Zuckerberg at Startup2Startup last week - to the effect that Facebook talked to the Republicans about interesting stuff they could do for last year's election, but the party didn't care, the director of communications for the Republican National Convention left a comment at Inside Facebook saying that, With all due respect, Randi Zuckerberg is totally full of sh*t on this one. His asterisk, not mine - and somehow, that little self-censorship makes his sentiment even less pleasant.

• Microsoft won't offer new search engine Bing as a default option for Windows users, according to Techradar. Not surprising, really - just imagine the antitrust outcry if that happened.

• Jack pointed this one out on Twitter over the weekend: photographs of the workspaces of science fiction writers, including Joe Haldeman and Harry Harrison. It's similar to the Guardian's own Writers' rooms series with an SF twist. I'd also put a shout out for the office of our columnist and science fiction author, Cory Doctorow, one of my favourite writer's dens.

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