£48,500 for Four Candles

The handwritten in red ink, 4-pages of A4 script for The Two Ronnies classic Four Candles sketch was sold in an online auction for £48,500. On the grounds that this is regularly voted that best/top/favourite/funniest comedy sketch of all time then I think £48k is a steal.

25 3D Games for Linux

Some of these free games look better than some commercial games. Most of them work on multiple operating systems but I'm going to be trying them out on Ubuntu

An Embuggerance Indeed

Terry Pratchett has been diagnosed with a rare form of early onset Alzheimer's Disease. He claims to be taking the news "fairly philosophically... and possibly with a mild optimism" See his letter on Discworld News