Spam report
I just noticed that it happened to have been almost precisely one week since I last cleaned out my junk...
Tolkien 2005
Turns out 2005 is the 50th anniversary of the publication of Return of the King. The Tolkien Society website says:...
Backlinks and referrer logs
When you follow a link on the web, your browser sends a request (for a particular web page) to the...
Interactive election map
The New York Times provides an interactive map that lets you see which states are, according to the Times, leaning...
Another gender guesser
Geoff's Gender Guesser attempts to determine whether a given name is more likely a male name or a female name,...
Borges and Seuss
In response to my previous entry, Alan pointed me to The Sideshow, where the Original Ratbastards—Alan, Barth, Kristin, and Barzak—review...
Short fiction reviews
About a year ago, Jim Van Pelt started a topic at the Rumor Mill to discuss and point to reviews...
Legal names
Interesting New York Times article about the Danish name registry. Turns out there are only 7000 officially approved names for...
Satirical pro-measure-36 arguments
In Oregon, Measure 36 on this year's ballot adds the following to the Oregon state constitution: It is the policy...
Items: technology and art
A few items before I go to sleep: Speculative Literature Foundation announces Technology Exchange program. You can donate your spare...
Nearby coffee
People who've stayed with me have generally noticed fairly quickly one serious flaw in my hospitality: I'm not good at...
State Fair
Forgot to mention in that last entry that I also recently saw State Fair (the 1945 Rodgers & Hammerstein musical...