Daily catch-up: More than usual, a bit of this and that from around the cyber-universe

Blessed are the mapmakers, the cartoonists, the clairvoyants and the makers of animal noises

"When they name roads in Novia Scotia five minutes before the bar is open." From Google Maps via Simon Ricketts.

• Great cartoon by Jake Goretzki: It's God – the Universe's Most Incompetent Brand Manager.

• I wrote in The Independent on Sunday about George Osborne's U-turn on tax credits cuts. I think it is coming in the Autumn Statement on 25 November.

• I also have a report in The Independent on Sunday of a study that found sympathy for refugees is influenced by what other countries do, and more strongly influenced towards being "less generous" if other countries are seen as less welcoming.

• The best thing in The Independent on Sunday, though, is my excellent colleague Richard Jinman's report of a collaboration that is making prosthetic hands cool for children.

• The Top 10 in The New Review, the Independent on Sunday magazine, is Animal Noises in Other Languages. One language I missed was Belgian, "little spoken today" as C Sladen pointed out, in which "Wuff wuff" becomes "Woah woah" as any Tintin fan knows.

• My review of Call Me Dave, by Michael Ashcroft and Isabel Oakeshott, from Saturday's Independent.

• This video of Alastair Campbell in conversation with David Axelrod at Chicago University is an hour long (you can start six minutes in) and highly educational. Campbell teases Axelrod, who worked for Ed Miliband, about the election – "the one you lost" – quoting Tony Blair's comment that it was lost in the sorts of places that most people have never heard of because they don't have a professional football team. Kettering was one of them. It is possible that Axelrod signed a non-disclosure agreement, because he doesn't rise to the bait.

Campbell is scathing by his ellipses about Jeremy Corbyn. "The way that the mavericks have colonised authenticity ..." he says, leaving the rest of the sentence unsaid. "This idea that you've got to be a bit off-the-wall to be authentic ..." He says he goes around the country a lot to watch football and even in the places that do have professional football teams he hears a lot of people saying, "What on earth have your lot done now?" He says: "I don't hear 'Alleluia'" for Corbyn.

• And finally, thanks to Moose Allain ‏for this news just in:

"Scooby Doo is a bit of a Shaggy/Dog story."