This looks intriguing –

Aussies are not hairy enough, not rude enough, not angry enough and are lacking in the mass anal bunting stakes? http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/blog/2009/jul/24/ashes-australia-swearing-hairiness

“So to Dirk Wellham, state captain, Test centurion (and moustache sporter), turned schoolteacher and thinker. Writing of Allan Border’s captaincy technique a few years ago, Wellham described the central place the word “fucking” played in forging a formidable Aussie team, observing: “[The] reliance on strong, decisive, male, independent players is symbolic of ‘fucking’, and the absence of collective psychology. Paradoxically, fucking can also be a group, sharing arrangement, of mateship.”

To be honest, I am not quite sure what Dirk is driving at here, but it seems to me his advice to Ponting would be: use more expletives and cut out the occasional net practice in favour of an orgy. Over to you, Punter.”

This news story makes me very sad: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8161793.stm. With those kinds of numbers, odds are I have imbibed at one of these joints. Sob.

Has Sri Lanka got the concept of ‘dead rubber’ exactly backwards? http://www.cricinfo.com/slvpak2009/content/current/story/414862.html

Vaas returns, Suraj is left out. On the other hand, mayhap they are just placating him and he will be left out on the morning of the test anyway. As an aside, it would seem that old Ajantha will conveniently get a stay of execution for the third test.

Delo with large parrot-like beaks are attacking peeps. I want to be attacked by a delo with a large parrot-like beak goddammit. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8155417.stm

Have online mixtapes finally died? The last one I knew of, favtape, seems to have gone offline and prior to that of course mixwit and muxtape both died. Have the record companies actually won then? Tell me I’m wrong…

The Manchester City revolution continues http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/m/man_city/8149488.stm I hope one of their prima donnas gets in a hissy fit because there are too many high profile strikers to go around now: Tevez, Adebayor, Santa Cruz, Robinho and that doesn’t count the lesser strikers – Bellamy, for one.