Calvin on blogging
Jay points me to an old (published exactly 11 years ago yesterday) Calvin & Hobbes strip about keeping a journal...
Sleepy
The workshop was fun, and good. It was populated by cool people. Yay, cool people! I'm home now. I'm recovering...
Offline
I neglected to mention earlier that it's possible that I'll be offline until Monday evening. I hope not; I'm hoping...
The 118-118 Experience
Apparently there's this British directory-information service called The Number, or possibly 118-118. And to advertise it, they've produced some goofy...
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...