From the makers of SpamAssassin
As most of y'all probably know, SpamAssassin is software that automatically determines whether a given piece of email is spam...
Gendered language
Jean pointed to The Gender Genie, where you enter some text and it applies the Koppel-Argamon algorithm (or perhaps that...
Are you?
Found art! A couple of sequences of spam subject lines when I sort by title: Are you a junky? Are...
SF index site
Just stumbled across a nifty bibliographic site: CyberSpace Spinner, which appears to have complete indexes of all fiction and cover...
Sabbatical!
As of an hour and a half ago, I'm done with work for the next two months. Yay! I decided...
Fakester
Another link from Boingboing before I go: an SF Weekly (where in this case SF means San Francisco) article titled...
Clute on Atwood
Last night I followed a link from a Boingboing message board (link provided by Alan Bostick) to John Clute's harsh...
Ninja, kobolds, and other games
Last night online people kept saying "All Hail King Torg!" So I Googled, and found that they were referring to...
Food and conversation
We went to Dasaprakash (all-vegetarian "Cuisine of South India") in Santa Clara for dinner, and I suspect I demonstrated my...
Will, Grace, and other attributes
I really ought to go to sleep, but wanted to note that Kam and I found the first several episodes...
Writing advice, life advice
Semi-articulate midnight musings: Anne Lamott's excellent book on writing, Bird by Bird, was lying around the house, so I picked...
Snippets
Three unrelated items: At the party tonight, two older gentlemen were playing and singing "The Union Maid," or at least...