A lot of you already know about this guy, but I wanted to put in a plug for Jonathan Coulton, a singer/songwriter whom I sang with in college. His specialty is sweet folk-rock ballads on geeky and/or incongruous subjects. He's starting to develop a significant fan base on the internet, and he's been featured in Popular Science, on the Daily Show, ( Read more... )

I found this neat website of optical illusions at ( Read more... )

I got this poem in the mail the other day, and I thought it was rather poignant, especially the last stanza. There was no other message or explanation. As sometimes happens in email messages, all of the carriage returns were missing, so I've done my best to guess at what the original line breaks would have been. Otherwise, I haven't changed a thing ( Read more... )