Orbital.

• The Internet without net neutrality. (courtesy picturecool)

• It's time to give up on civilisation as a noble but utterly failed experiment.

• AHAHAHAHA chuggers.

• Domas Mituzas on what MySQL process states really mean.

• NotN: Did humans and Neanderthals interbreed?; "Three strikes" to ensure security of all private communications.

Pumped full of steroids as I was, today was quite productive. Got up at 6:45am, wrote two NotN, one got Slashdotted. arkady and I cleaned the hall and the lounge. The place looks a bit like a house. Next: under the couch, the kitchen and the laundry.

neonchameleon came over to visit this evening. He and Arkady geeked horribly about role-playing games.