Laptop battery

Mine's karked.  Can anyone recommend a good, cheap supplier?

Censorship mission creep?

I'm hearing rumours that some UK ISPs (including BT Mobile) are blocking access to the Pirate Bay, claiming it's an IWF thing.  If they're true, this is a very bad thing.  Censoring is all vile, IMO, but censoring kiddy smut is at least defensible; blocking just TPB would be a triple-fail: extending IWF's mission from "stopping kiddy smut" to include "and protecting TimeWarnerSonyArseflakes' profit"; only blocking one torrent site out of hundreds; and failing to act on the torrents themselves (tip: google "my favourite telly show" filetype:torrent).

I'm hoping this is scuttlebutt that will blow over in a day or two.