As we have not been part of the blogosphere for very long, we were at first baffled by references to the Carnival of the Vanities. Somewhere, we read that this ‘Carnival’ is a way for brilliant but unknown bloggers to get noticed. ‘That's us!’, we thought. So we decided that a bit of detective work was in order. Several glasses of Champagne later, we discovered that the Carnival of the Vanities was conceived by Bigwig of Silflay Hraka in September last year. He solicited bloggers' best work of the week (or ever, if they preferred),
and then published them as a list. After several weeks of compiling the list himself, Bigwig hit on the idea of getting a different blog to host it each week, presumably to avoid burnout. The Carnival of the Vanities is now a splendid way to find high-quality blog content with very little effort, and we think it is worth visiting every week to find hitherto undiscovered gems.

There is only one problem: it is not always easy to find out where the next Carnival is unless you know where the current one is. Not any more! From now on, there will be permanent links in the sidebar of Setting The World To Rights (below the list of blogs) to the current Carnival of the Vanities, and to the host of the next one, for the benefit of any of you bloggers who might want to submit your work.
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Re the Champagne: We hasten to add that this was purchased before the current boycott.