This is cool: Image Mosaic Generator takes a photograph or drawing that you upload and converts it into a mosaic using thousands of tiny photographs, then gives you an option to downlod and save it.

This is fun: DailyLit will email you a portion of a public domain book every day. I chose The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

Link from caterina.net

As complicated as we human beings are, the way we love each other can be extraordinarily simple. In other words, the ways in which we give and receive love need not be painful, tense, complicated, or fraught with melodrama of any kind. In fact, the way we treat our partners and our other loved ones can (and should) be kind, honest and-perhaps most important of all-free of any manipulation, nasty drama, or game-playing.

How to Drop the Drama and Master the Art of Loving Simply in Seven Easy Steps

Good article from Stephen King on The Writing Life in The Washingtonpost:

There's a mystery about creative writing, but it's a boring mystery unless you're interested in this one small animal, sometimes quite vicious, that makes its home in the bushes. It's a scruffy little thing with fleas and often smells of whatever nasty mess it's been rolling in. It can never be more than semi-domesticated and isn't exactly known for its loyalty. I'll speak more of this beast -- to which the Greeks gave the comically noble name musa , which means song -- later, but in the meantime, believe me when I say there's little mystery or tragic romance about the rest of it, which is why they never show the working part in movies about writers, only the drinking, carousing and heroic puking in the gutter by the dawn's early light.

A great article on privacy on Pogue's Posts in the New York Times Blog:

OK, I'm as interested in privacy as the next person. But if someone were interested in harvesting phone numbers, why would he go to the trouble of launching this elaborate phone-services company? Wouldn't it be infinitely more efficient just to pick up a tidy, complete, ready-to-harvest, pre-compiled list of phone numbers--a little thing called the *phone book*?"

Explaining his plan, he says, "You know, Halle Berry one night, Salma Hayek the next, and then walk on the beach holding hands with Leonardo DiCaprio."

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