We do a late news sift on Friday afternoons. There wasn't much interesting this morning, but I found one or two bloggable ones this avo.

Further to my rant the other day, a semi-thoughtful piece asking "What's the difference between art and [child] porn?"

Oh no! Poor beardie!

Microsoft bows to pressure on XP

Pfft. Dude, I'm never ever installing Longhorn. If they ever stop supporting XP such that it's unusable, I'm running to Ubuntuland so fast Clippy won't see my dust.

Aww, Klara. *injokeish giggle*

Any Romanov fans in the house? I dunno; dead folks is dead folks as far as I'm concerned...

Man wants time off work, calls in bomb threats. Makes perfect sense.

"Two flavours of Christianity" IS NOT CREATIVELY RADICALLY INCLUSIVE. Faith schools must be abolished and closed.

Drawers 'top place to stash cash'

Brilliant, Mary-Jane! Interest, who needs it?

Finally, some Rumi luvving!

(I know they didn't get that painting directly from Haydar Hatemi, though. Because I've exchanged emails with the late Mr Hatemi's son. They got it from WikiCommons, as I did.)

I have solved the problem of sex-segregated toilets.

(Sex-segregated bathrooms are a real problem among some folk who, like me, take issue with the concept of gender.)

Proposal: Public conveniences to be segregated into Extravert and Introvert. The extras get the urinals; intros have only stalls, and thicker partitions.

What do I win?!