Sweet sweet love.

• PZ Myers: Atheism should be science and social justice, not science vs. social justice.

• Though you can't be a proper strident atheist if you use Windows.

• MediaWiki on Debian/Ubuntu from distro packages. tl;dr it'll get a lot better with Wheezy and 12.10 (hopefully).

• Detained in Wal-Mart for shoplifting? Bored while police on the way? Why not cook some meth to pass the time.

• The new worst thing in the world today.

• Rocknerd: How to make the general public loathe collection agencies.

Friday it was pissing down, so we took Freda for a swim at the Trowbridge Leisure Centre. Saturday we visited the Uffington White Horse and the Uffington Castle hill fort. The view's spectacular ... all of it carefully tended by humans. It struck me how beautiful landscapes in Britain are generally curated, compared to Australia where they're actually still mostly-natural. (Though very closely observed.)

I am pleased to say my dad is still an irascible old git. arkady says I have not turned entirely into him as yet, apparently still less obnoxiously rude. Though being less rude than my dad is not a terribly high bar.

Today we drove back, this time zipping along the M25 instead of single-laning the North Circular, and got from Wiltshire to Walthamstow in two and a half hours without stopping. We were greeted with a catshit apocalypse. I think I've got it all. Evidently the younger teen was somewhat overwhelmed by the stupendous quantities of poo produced by three cats, two elderly.

Freda has started drawing fighting dinosaurs with health bars above their heads. We blame too many Flash games.