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• A petition to privatise Thatcher's state funeral. (No, she's not dead yet.)

• Just imagine what would happen if freeman-on-the-land nutters met TV licensing. Oh wait, you don't have to imagine.

• Wikimedia blog: Go try the new visual editor prototype.

As a critic, my life's hobby has been tracking beauty to its lair, suffocating it and pinning it to a page.

I'm going with the Mach III. Of course, just as I made that post, arkady had already ordered one with the Christmas groceries ... but the discussion leaves me reasonably confident it's the right answer.

It's been a thankfully unexciting couple of weeks. Christmas is annoying enough, though Freda is WILDLY ENTHUSIASTIC. Work with Freda at home is only feasible in thirty-second bursts. School doesn't start again until January 9th, leaving me fantasising about going to the office ...

The death of Kim Jong-Il is, of course, the first miracle of Christopher Hitchens. Beatification awaits.