Strike it up.

• Final push: If you join now, you could be the one who enables the Open Rights Group to run legal interventions.

• NewsTechnica: Murdered children necessary to protect your freedom. Two in a year? HOW CAN I MAINTAIN THIS FRENETIC PACE.

Well, poop. My BlackBerry is apparently dead of liquid damage, which is actually depressingly likely. So I can pay over a hundred quid for a repair, or note that that's about the going rate new for a 9300. My old dumbphone can actually do GMail and Twitter barely usably, but I'm really missing the MP3 player and ebook reader. Anyone have an old Android or Blackberry they could spare for a few months?

The tree is up and the lounge is festooned in tinsel. The small child is delighted. For the first time in four years, I am taking the holiday week off. Also, it is too cold.

I now have two people trying to draft me to the RationalWiki Foundation board. I already run the server. How do I find a suitable human shield for this honour?