Shops remix.

• The Tories directly threaten the BBC, live on Newsnight, for daring to question them about Ashcroft.

• The complete text of "Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman" by Richard Feynman. I cannot recommend this highly enough.

• Bertie Wooster as Batman. "I understand badgers can be quite nasty in a pinch."

• I bet the author of this thought she was writing something radical, outrageous and thought-provoking, rather than a fairly straightforward description of the gay press and its effects over the last thirty years.

Dad is somewhat better — it was "just" pneumonia, and he's coming out of the induced coma over this week. I still have no idea when I'm leaving for Australia, could be any moment. I am pleased to discover that my paper UK licence plus my Australian passport should be enough to drive in Perth.

Wine on Windows shudders forth. This bug is the fifth seal; the sixth will be a working program launcher under Windows, the seventh will be the Win16 bits compiling and giving this eldritch horror a reason to exist. Why? BECAUSE WE CAN. Eight times in the last three days compiling it has made my laptop overheat and switch itself off. T3H H0RR0R T3H H0RR0R.

Wholesale and Job Lots is my favourite eBay category. arkady is mean 'cos she says I can't get these for the house.

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