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The Internet being what it is, it’s useful to have ways of sorting all that information.  To be able to get at it later, easily.  First there was Furl, which I’ve used in the past and loved, then there was Yahoo!’s My Web (which is my current default choice), and now there’s Google Notebook, which is nifty for its own reasons.

All are excellent resources & tools, it’s just a matter of figuring out how to use them.  I’m leaning towards MyWeb as a sort of all-purpose information sorting tool, with Google Notebook as a more project-specific tool.  (Furl is arguably the most powerful of the bunch, but I haven’t yet figured out the best way to make use of it, sadly.)

Or maybe it’s just a table of animal noises in different languages…

But just think, what if it weren’t…?

(link [though not the graphic] via, probably, some other blog I’ve forgotten all about; just imagine the actual citation is right here)

As part of Slate’s Pulp Fiction week, some designers/artists were asked to envision classic works of literature as pulp fiction covers. The results are excellent. The Moby Dick cover won me over for its alliteration, but all the covers have their own special charms.

Rat scientists have found that keen old minds work in different ways than bright young ones.

• TV-B-Gone. Can anything this delightful be legal? (via Cool Tools)
• Too Real. Schizophrenics are apparently not fooled by optical illusions that trick non-schizophrenics. Curious.
• Oh, that makes it better. “We didn’t actually hover an Osprey over a mosque.” A while ago, Bell & Boeing put out an ad for a type of aircraft (an Osprey) which involved said aircraft hovering over a mosque, troops rappeling, etc., with the tagline, “It descends from the heavens. Ironically, it unleashes hell.” Then everyone from both companies agreed, “oops.” (via The Seattle Times)
• Castles of the US. A surprisingly long list, though apparently the page’s maintainer no longer has time to update it. You wouldn’t imagine the castle landscape is too dynamic, however, so it’s probably fine. (via MeFi)

The train ride was short and insignificant. I met no mysterious strangers. No crimes were committed. The weary rested their heads with no ill effects.

Devices Of Wonder brings you the Magic Lantern Slide, Indonesian Shadow Puppets, Miroir de sorciére, and muchly more.  From the Getty Museum.

 (via WFMU’s Beware of the Blog)

It’s too bad I haven’t been letting the comment spam post to this blog; you’d be up to your armpits in posts here, if that were the case.

Sadly, it’s not.