Sinfonia to Cantata No. 29.

• Rocknerd: The Adventures of Ford Fairlane; Nick Cave’s ridiculously over-the-top rejected script for Gladiator 2, for your reading pleasure; a pile of other stuff this month. Please link the bits you like around!

• Oh, those wacky Men's Rights activists. Cunnilingus is for "betas" because vaginas are icky.

Free to fetch: two surplus working LCD monitors, London E17. 19" 1280×1024, 17" 1024×768, both pivoting. Email me at dgerard@gmail.com. Someone must want these things ...

It's too darn hot, like this is news. Weather like this cures me of nostalgia for Australia. It would be a little better if these Engrish had the faintest notion concerning air conditioning.

Work continues as apace as you would expect in a hot July. We're going Agile/Scrum. Probably the best bit of Aggle is how everyone gets an E-meter at their desk. The socialist realist posters are excellent too, Commissar!

Things you can't get in the UK: shade cloth for the garden. Anyone found anything like this or a substitute?

Freda does not like my cooking. She told her best friend's grandmother that I was a "bad boring baldy cook". Hmph! Cardboard and poo for her then! Separately, she explains to us that you wouldn't send cobras into space because they would bite the astronauts, who would die.

Essentially, the entire cultural-industrial-Congress complex must be destroyed, utterly, not one stone upon another, and the ground salted. (Not apropos anything in particular, but certainly a suitable ending for any message.)