Mondo auction tomorrow in Kenmore.

In a piece of spam advertising a famous drug to treat a condition that I had no idea was so common until the drug became so famous:

No more excuses, no more frustration, no more having to solely satisfy my girlfriend orally.

Dude, if you were satisfying your girlfriend orally, she wouldn’t care if you couldn’t get it up.

The British Library (we [heart] libraries) has put working scripts of Shakespeare’s plays online. One of the features reportedly allows you to track changes in the text from version to version.

Next time I’m in Southeast WA on the second Saturday of a month, I should tour the Hanford Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory.

If this is true, I’ll think hard about getting a TiVo. I don’t think my tv has any spare inputs, though…

I have to believe that this was an appallingly stupid thing for Friendster to do.
I have not yet cancelled my account, though (especially since I haven’t used it all that much lately) I may very well do that.
Update 10 Sep: No more Friendster for me.

Wow, I wish I were as cool as Craig from craigslist.

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Bayes-based filters have done some wonderful things. I don’t know whether this is wonderful or not.

The modern master of horror tells you, in about ten minutes, everything you need to do to be a successful writer. I like it so much I’ve squirrelled a copy away. I find the comments at the end especially telling, though: the person hosting the page demonstrates, with his words and his meaning, that he has entirely missed at least two of the points of King’s treatise.

Tired of checking your gmail several times a day, especially if you have to go clear out the google cookies so they don’t tie your searching behavior to your mail? The Gmail Notifier will make your life a little easier, then.
So far, it’s Windows (2k/XP) only, but they say Mac and Linux versions are on the way.
Unfortunately, it uses the system "New Mail" sound, so there’s no way to have it unambiguously audibly inform me of my gmail.