Under a sun so hot it makes you cry.

• Paul Graham on great hackers. (Courtesy ewx.) "Maybe the people in charge of facilities, not having any concentration to shatter, have no idea that working in a cubicle feels to a hacker like having one's brain in a blender. (Whereas Bill, if the rumors of autism are true, knows all too well.)"

• The sheep are getting restless. (Courtesy bluekieran.)

Today is apparently System Administrator Appreciation Day. GIMME PINT.

London appears to have given up on Melbourne weather and gone for Sydney weather: thirtyish, humid and with a temperature inversion holding in a layer of soot. It's been a rotten summer for breathing so far.

Does anyone know of a source of microfibre clothing in the UK or even Europe? Shirts in particular.

Good musical forms all mean "fuck." "Jazz" means "fuck." "Rock'n'roll" means "fuck." "Punk" means "sodomy." "Post-punk" means the cigarette afterwards. "Rap" means talking about it. "Techno" means a machine does it for you.