"Of course it's not big, said Molda to Millda / that's one of the salient features of wrens"

As promised, some links from all over:

• Some people have been using fake license plates to give enemies tickets by automatic speeding cameras. (via)
  
  
• GoogleMaps makes mutually assured distruction that much more fun: Ground Zero. (via)
  
  
• Autumn in Japan: photographs.
  
  
• How to cite restroom graffiti, and other things you've always wanted the PMLA to tell you about. (via)
  
  
• These bits of Waveform jewelry are geeky cool. (via)
  
  
• The mechanism of a 7x7x7 Rubic's cube revealed. (via)
  
  
• Don't fall down the blue hole, no matter how beautiful. (via)
  
  
• Gotta say, this is a pretty heart-shaped map of the NYC subway system. (via)
  
  
• More from Michael Lewis on "The End of the Financial World as We Know It," parts one and two. (via)

And in local news, all of LiveJournal's engineers have been laid off, leaving this place on bare life-support. Joy.

ETA: Other reports say, contra this article, that it was "only" 13 instead of 20 who were laid off. ETA2: Officially, less than 20% of the total workforce was laid off.

---L.

"Of course it's not big, said Molda to Millda / that's one of the salient features of wrens"

As promised, some links from all over:

• Some people have been using fake license plates to give enemies tickets by automatic speeding cameras. (via)
  
  
• GoogleMaps makes mutually assured distruction that much more fun: Ground Zero. (via)
  
  
• Autumn in Japan: photographs.
  
  
• How to cite restroom graffiti, and other things you've always wanted the PMLA to tell you about. (via)
  
  
• These bits of Waveform jewelry are geeky cool. (via)
  
  
• The mechanism of a 7x7x7 Rubic's cube revealed. (via)
  
  
• Don't fall down the blue hole, no matter how beautiful. (via)
  
  
• Gotta say, this is a pretty heart-shaped map of the NYC subway system. (via)
  
  
• More from Michael Lewis on "The End of the Financial World as We Know It," parts one and two. (via)

And in local news, all of LiveJournal's engineers have been laid off, leaving this place on bare life-support. Joy.

ETA: Other reports say, contra this article, that it was "only" 13 instead of 20 who were laid off. ETA2: Officially, less than 20% of the total workforce was laid off.

---L.