Brad Spangler provides contact info for the DA of Placer County, whose job it is to persecute Steve Kubby for trying to stay alive by unapproved means.

I’m on graveyard shift. Last night there were two of us but tonight I have the floor to myself. It’s so slow, I’d be tempted to strip down and run laps, if I could be sure there are no cameras; I haven’t spotted any but it’s a rather hi-tech building. How hi-tech?

• The elevator cars have no floor buttons. You choose a floor on a ten-key pad in the lobby, and some machine tells you which elevator to take.
• The loo flushes by sonar or something. When activated it makes a noise like a cat being stepped on. (A small cat.)
• Most of the lights went out at about 2:20 and I can’t find a manual switch anywhere.

So there’s a banner ad (on Greg Dean’s Real Life Comics) that reads:

Diamonds may be a girl’s best friend
but do diamonds hold all of her d20’s?
Yeah, we didn’t think so.

Naturally, each “o” in the second line is replaced with a picture of a dodecahedral die.

Binyavanga Wainaina in Granta

Never have a picture of a well-adjusted African on the cover of your book, or in it, unless that African has won the Nobel Prize. An AK-47, prominent ribs, naked breasts: use these. If you must include an African, make sure you get one in Masai or Zulu or Dogon dress.

I learn to my surprise that the iconic soccer ball is younger than I am.

I recently began contributing to Wikipedia; my biggest contribution so far is these tables of convex uniform polychora (the data are borrowed, the arrangement mine).

After a few days of this, wherever I see a webpage with awkward language I want to find the Edit button!

My home address is of the form m Rivendell Lane, #n. Rivendell Lane (name changed) is a condo with multiple buildings; each building contains multiple dwellings, each with an outside door. When tradesmen come calling, most of the time their dispatcher omits the unit number n, and they go knock at the door of unit m, which happens also to be in building m. They then call their dispatcher, who calls me; I roll my eyes and explain. Without mobile telephones I’d never get anything delivered!

I can’t think of any functionality that would be lost if the buildings as such had never been given numbers. My address would then be slightly shorter and free of ambiguity.