Unfortunately, I’ve pretty much missed my chance to see the exhibition, but wow, knitted superhero costumes!

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.

Pictoplasma‘s archive is a way to see a whole lot of examples of what it is that makes a cartoonish character.

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.

A lovely idea, not very well executed: The Victorian sex cry generator.

There was a fairly shifty guy in the library today asking what companies in the US manufactured certain chemicals, and asked that I help him find a company that made, oh just for example, hydrochloric acid. As an upstanding patriotic American, I feel I must arm non-shifty types with the same information. (Don’t you wish other patriotic [or at least patriotism-claimants] felt the same way about information?)

OPD Search
Chem Channels

and just because I like them, I’ll add IMEX– Mister Shifto was not interested after I got him one listing. Bah.

Yes, the shiny gadgets are quite nice, but I especially like the writing on Gizmodo. Extra points for Zombie Thoreau.

I’m not totally sure I understand how to read these lovely burr-like maps, but they sure are entrancing.