Rational human beings engaging with constitutional issues in a healthy democracy? Suits you sir. That is why we at the Chronicle aim to hitch a ride on the back of this historical first Facebook Election and bring you a superconcentrated mashbash of data word frequency analysis, semi-weighted and velocity-senstive to bells and curves and swing and spin. And the roar of the baying mob. The issues. Now. Read. Ingest. Gargle. Squeak. And continue, satiated, with your lives.

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Information is Beautiful. The irrepressible Mr McCandless excels himself with a study of how you can expect to scratch a pauper's pittance in the bright new digital future of the "Music Business" (Music. Business. The clue might be in there somewhere). Those with a Pie allergy, turn away now. Those for whom pies provoke slobbery shudders of delight, leave the terrifying saucer-eyed culinatrix Miss Dahl alone for a second and go and just check out these pies. Burn your own CD? A titchy little pie within tangible munching distance. Oh No, What's this? A monstrous eclipse of Saturn-sized Spotify pie full of streaming playlisty webby-airtime for your latest smash hit/avant-garde soundscape - pfeh - from which you get nay a nibble of stale crust. Be gone, Pie-tormentors. Today's news is missing its obligatory redtop pun. Tartiflette's Go Crazy! Boom-tish, that's better.

Like a flying jawbone turning into a spaceship, we jump from the ancient to the modern, with a little beauty from 2009