No mercy.

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• The Decline and Fall of the American Empire. Note quotes that it's already happening. Military might can only take you so far.

• NECESARRY TEHCNOGOLY RAEDING.

• MEAT CARDS. Made from MEAT and LASERS.

• The Nokia 5800 explained in pictures.

• Wikimedia blog: Identifying expertise post-credentialism.

• NotN: cancer, Vatican, Twitter, Microsoft, copyright.

I'm not going to Vagabonds tonight — sleep-deprived, deeply buggerated and can't be arsed. Instead, it'll be a quiet night in's geek date with redcountess!

A household server is a vexing problem. The ancient Thinkpad 560X's fan keeps Liz awake (that or the lights). This, at £149, is nearly perfect — except it's not silent. But the next Atom chipset should be. This is way promising for the future. Any other recommendations for silent PCs?

The toilet floor is apparently made of chipboard. WELL THAT WAS CLEVER WASN'T IT. There's two ways to fix it: quickly or properly. The latter involves proper drains for the floors. Except our drains are fucked already. w00t!

arkady has commandeered the large purple albatross (Athlon XP, 1GB memory) I got from pndc. The fan bearings are going to give out any second. She's back playing Second Life, God help us.