Clair obscur.

• Fight facial recognition software with dazzle makeup. (Can't wait for laws against particular makeup styles.)

• Indiana threatened by GIANT POO BUBBLES.

• Pacman: The Movie.

• NewsTechnica: Wacky journalistic scamps amuse all; Devil sells soul to Mandelson.

I can tell it's spring because I am the unwilling star of a plant bukkake porn epic.

The younger teen's phone broke knocking about in her bag. Her cries of "but it wasn't my fault!" and "I didn't break it!" and "you should buy me a new one because it so wasn't my fault!" fell unheeded upon her mother's cold and stoney ears. The Orange shop also said that, unfortunately, gross negligence wasn't covered under warranty. So she has arkady's old phone, and Arkady has a shiny new CrackBerry 8900. And I'm discovering why these things are called that, she's using it twenty-four hours a day including when she's actually asleep and I'm thinking of staging an intervention. £25/mo on Orange (unlimited texts, somewhat-unlimited intarweb, 400 minutes), not bad. Apparently she gets a free iPhone upgrade in a few months, at which point I get one or the other. *prrrrrrr*

Tonight I made a variant on this, which nyecamden made a variant of for me on Tuesday. I used mature cheddar instead of Stilton because everyone else in the house is a heathen who doesn't like cheese that fights back, and added mushrooms. The sauce ends up a bit runny, but it works really nicely.

PROTIP: Your XP partition boots better if NTLDR and NTDETECT.COM are actually present. Who'da thunk!