Use the space bar to break up the meteors.

• Velocity Raptor: a physics Flash game with special relativity. Lorenz contraction, time dilation, red and blue shift ...

• What it's actually like being a Disney-ish princess for kids' parties.

• The Bayesian Temptation of Christ.

• Rocknerd: The history of prog.

• My Wikimedia blog: Deprecating Creative Commons -NC may not be a good idea; Why you should work for Wikimedia if you possibly can.

We and Freda are both looking forward to the start of school. Freda keeps finding Flash games with detailed written instructions, so I am reinforcing her reading skills by making her read them rather than reading them for her. And it's working! There's nothing like an incentive.

If you ever find yourself coordinating with another company to work out who gets what chunks of 10.*, you've made terrible mistakes in your life.

It's taken me twenty-three years to realise that "Fine Time" by New Order is a song about drunken sex with a sheep. (Sound effect at end.)