I should add a so-called blogroll to my site. One weblog I've come across several times is Tim Lambert's blog. First time I came across it was when he criticised the Alexis de Torqueville Institute and think-tanks in general. He also writes a lot of very sane, reasonable stuff on guns, global warming, and statistics. And no, I don't say that just because I agree with him, but I mostly do :-)
On that blog I found a link to a "better version" of The political compass, namely the "Beasts" political survey, which uses mathematical techniques to determine what the axes should be (They do name them a little oddly though. Calling the second vector pragmatism/idealism - it would be cool if this was what was actually measured, but I don't think it fits quite)
Interestingly, I appear on approximately the same place as I do on the "old" compass. My results can be seen here, in case you wonder where I stand on different issues.
Disclaimer: I filled that out in a hurry. The occasional double negative may have tripped me up, and I can't say that I used a lot of time on all the questions.
Interestingly, when the author has tried to place famous historical persons on his scale, he assumed that Stalin would oppose abortions. Can this really be true? That doesn't rhyme well with that book Pandolphia read, "Revolution and Marriage", a book from the 1920s describing the experiences of a russian woman who later escaped to the west. You should write reviews of these interesting books you come across, dear :-)