"talks of small things it sets up all things/this'll master money, though money masters all things"

Best Flash timesinks toys of the week: create music either deterministically or chaotically. Click about to play, and see you in an hour or two. (via 1/2)

Best video evidence of timesinkage of the week: Building a LEGO ship in a bottle: "This project took a week of planning, three days of building, a large number of expletives, and some interesting use of long tools." That third especially, I suspect. (via)

Best video of the week: Time-lapse video of Tokyo at night, contrasting the same shots before and after last month's quake to showing how the skyline has been darkened by power conservation. (via)

Best quiz of the week: Pierley/Redford Dissociative Affect Diagnostic, with questions like "Which shape wants to hurt you?" It's ... an interesting experience. Don't click through if flickering screens cause you problems. (via)

Best snark of the week: Six socially conscious actions that only look like that they help, and why/how they end up half-assed in execution. (via)

Best advice of the week: How to steal like an artist. (via)

Best: "I Am Not a Camera" by W.H. Auden, with Isherwoodian context. (via)

---L.