One thousand times.

• An amazingly wacky human cognitive bias: the name letter effect.

• NewsTechnica: Bizarre benefits fraud excuses revealed by government; UK plans cyber-weapons programme.

I've been back at work this week and the commute sucks only slightly more. The boxes are somewhat unpacked, the house is somewhat organised and I can mostly find things. The landlord has fixed the bath. arkady and teen went out Morris dancing last night, Freda is frequently sleeping through the night. Life slowly normalises.

I have been playing the Wolfgang Press of late. The 1991 album Queer (in completely different UK and US versions) and 1994 album Funky Little Demons are beautiful examples of a bunch of mopey notagoths remembering that music is fun.