Because Technorati indexes my categories as tags, I’ve renamed them to more standard terms – less interesting, but more useful taxonomically.

BBC: Lib Dems win Cheadle by-election – Mark Hunter won the Cheadle by-election for the LibDems with a 3,657 majority. Former Tory MP Stephen Day lost – again. Labour lost their deposit.

Bus firm takes French car sharers to court.
(Via.)

Things have been getting a bit serious on the blog lately, so here’s something ridiculously geeky – in the “You wasted your lunch hour on that?” sense – to lighten the mood.

Just to show that sudokus don’t have to use numbers – any set of discrete symbols will suffice – Christopher Lee stars in a puzzle far, far away… it’s SoDooku!

Pix via Google Image Search; puzzle from Sudoku Generator – rather than the traditional method preferred by The Guardian, where, beginning at sunset, an elderly Japanese man calls out numbers at random while being beaten with a broom of bamboo, this continuing until a puzzle with only one solution has been formed which is then etched into a marble tablet, sanctified in holy water and flown to Farringdon. That sounded like too much effort.