Game over.

• Wikimedia image filter finally stabbed through the heart. And good riddance.

• Why tablets suck, and why further.

• RationalWiki: Pseudojournal. Please help expand.

• Rocknerd: The impending death of the album; Hold back the invaders, their infernal machines.

Freda: "When I was a three I wanted to be a princess but now I am a five I want to be a dinosaur scientist." WE CLAIM SUCCESS.

We have a new fridge and another dishwasher, still free on the warranty from the first one. I still heartily recommend the British Heart Foundation electrical shops for ability to do the right thing. Now making stuff by the vatload for freezing.

Frances, the elderly cat (alternately charming sook and 'orrible old lady) has gone missing, presumed dead. She showed up for breakfast Tuesday and hasn't been seen since. She had an assortment of illnesses and was living on borrowed time.

I won a £100 Amazon voucher from work and spent it on rubbish (since it wasn't enough for a new netbook). Mostly homebrew kit. Freda: "Daddy, why did you get water cleaner for a paddling pool and a pump for a paddling pool?" Me: "Dunno, why would I?" Freda: ":-D"

On the 11th, I cut all my hair off — half of it quit and I've fired the rest. (Mum, you get your wish after only twenty-six years.) On good days I'm Lex Luthor, on bad ones Dave Gilmour. That's my first haircut since just before the birth of the younger teen.

The Greatest Show On Earth by Richard Dawkins is fantastic. If you thought you understood evolution, you'll understand it better. READ THIS.

The Internet is a rubbish dump and I am a seagull. (I also swoop in, shit all over the place and swoop out again.)