I'd heard about spiders making crazy webs under the influence of LSD before, but never seen the pictures. Looking at these, I think I might give up coffee.
For all my librarian friends, or for anyone who's ever heard "can't the computer do that?" -- a review of INDEXERS AND INDEXES IN FACT AND FICTION
Nice short article on signing your pages using RDF. Basically this is a quick and dirty way to join the Semantic Web.
Self-Organization and Identification of Web Communities (via PeterMe)
From the New Yorker, a Letter from Toykyo that goes into some detail on the incredibly serious approach to fashion, or, as the article puts it: "Because the Japanese are fanatical about fashion in the way that the Brazilians are about soccer or the Germans are about cleanliness, walking around Tokyo can feel like being trapped in an endless Halloween party where everyone but you has come as a member of the Beastie Boys, the Cure, or TLC."
Think Cycle wants to apply distributed technologies to many different types of design problems. Sort of a Seti@Home for communities. I can see lots of potential fun applications for the idea, but I need to check into the site a little more.
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