• Things of which make men proud of themselves, which is pretty nice, but can somebody please translate it into American for me?
• Did you see Google Sky? Microsoft is working on something similar and slicker, but, frankly, i don’t really see the point. Also, the earth and moon as seen from Mars.
• I don’t understand . . . why doesn’t Pat Condell just tell us how he really feels?
• Chuck Klosterman explains how to win at rock-paper-scissors.
• Just to get this out of my sodding browser tab: Cheese fries (worst food ever). Related: the good and bad of 7 of your favorite things, from chocolate to beer.
• How do I love Nicholson Baker? Let me count the — ok, whatever, but: The Charms of Wikipedia.
• 18
• Funny Games — a movie critics love to hate.
• Are you still not using Yubnub? And btw here is the guy who invented it. Or probably “created” is a better word.
• Something you’ve probably heard of already: The Daily Swarm.
• Sentenc.es: make like short e-mail.
• Ok, now I’m going to link to something that I have no idea what it means, except that it’s almost impossible to understand out of context. ready? go.
• Get rich and famous fast: start a blog. Things of which to blog, in possible order of preference: Tumblr, Vox, Wordpress. If possible, buy a friggin domain name and attach it to one of those (easy wth tumblr).
• Historical fonts you can download and use. (But please don’t.) Also, here are some fancy contemporary fonts.
• Franklin on being an artist and the internet. About right.
• Capsule review: my new camera, Canon SD870is, compared to my recently died camera, Canon SD400. Worse: the body is bigger and made of all-plastic (400 was all metal and had nice art-deco style flourishes), no optical viewfinder, easy to accidentally turn on when pulling out of pocket, (apparently) no way to boost saturation. Better: wide angle lens (yes!), higher iso/IS = low-light photos, interface improvements (e.g. customizable button). Indifferent: bigger screen. Ongoing gripes: no way to shut off shutter beep without muting entire camera, including movie playback, no auto-iso (ok technically there is, but it only boosts by one level), crappy auto-retracting lens cover lets lint in when camera is in my pocket. Overall: jammin.
• How to tell if you’re being followed.
• Amazing abandoned wooden houses in Russia. Every time someone links to something on English Russia it’s amazing.
• My new homepage. Also, you saw It’s not lupus, right? (I’ve only seen one episode of this show in my like, but it happens that it was the lupus one.) “He’s not responding because it’s not Lupus!”
• How to make a ball out of dirt, should you ever have the need.
• Oh, the daffy things people make.
• And, since it’s easier to get you people to look at things when I embed them, here:

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