How to make your own photo mosaics, courtesy of Engadget.

I know I signed up twice to be emailed when it was available for pre-order, so why didn’t Amazon tell me that you can get The Return of the King (Platinum Series Special Extended Edition) now? How many times do I have to sign up to get the email?

Results of a terrorism poll, courtesy of cockeyed.com:

How many foreign-born men or women, with the intent and the will to carry out a suicide-attack plan, do you think live in the United States right now, in October of 2004?

Check out the results

Flashback with me to my CompSci days (and realize how much I’ve forgotten, and how easy it is to remember) with this inefficient sort algorithms analysis. Check out the O(n! ^ 2) code at the end!

The new hybrid Lexus RX 400h SUV is setting presales records. The Toyota Prius is outselling the Hummer H2 more than two-to-one. My wife has begun fantasizing about the rumored 2006 Lexus LS hybrid. But I, for one, would love to own the Smart Fourtwo microcar, assuming it’s comfortable.

Engadget is one of my newest daily links. They post several things a day about new cellphones, PDAs, hiptops, laptops, and other kinds of neat gadget-y hardware. This article about a new 7-inch Onepad webpad looks like it came straight out of my dreams. Although I would have wiped off the LCD first.

Improv is only one step removed from theater dorks in my book (not a judgement, just a fact). But this story made my day: Improv Everywhere at Virgin Megastore. Via cockeyed.

The RNC fear-phrase video (Quicktime). Hypnotizing. (via)

This just in:

Tomorrow at 11 am PST [I think they mean PDT, which is 2pm EDT], the Half-Life 2 Steam offers will be ready for purchase. Those who purchase via Steam, will receive the final version of Counter-Strike: Source immediately.

This news, prices (bronze $50, silver $60, gold $90), and details available.

Now you, too, can forget Poland with this new You Forgot Poland Bumper Sticker!

(What the hell is this about?)

New Gmail features are in the process of being added to the system, one of which is the drunkenly-discussed Drafts!

Update 10-05: As of this morning, I have drafts, but not the Atom link.

This is a neat Perl-powered Presidential Debate analysis.

Happy October. Here’s an eerie fun Flash game for your Friday: A Murder of Scarecrows

This is cool: thttpd, a tiny, fast, and simple HTTP server. Traffic throttling, IPv6 support, chroot jails, it’s exactly what I was looking for this morning!

The Kleptones' new release, A Night at the Hip-Hopera is damn rockin. A lot of Queen and Beastie Boys sampling, and it’s free for download! There’s also a sample listing reference, courtesy of Andrew Baio (who I get lots of my links from BTW).

Half-Life Fallout has a list of purchase options for Half-Life 2. Six CDs, three different Steam packages, and Counter-Strike: Source available for play by next week. Does that mean HL2 will be available at the same time, or shortly thereafter?

But it’s gonna cost more to get HL2 (through Steam) with CS:S than without it? Ouch, that’s gonna be a tough choice.

Update: HLFallout.net is running a bit slow, Halflife2.net has the information on their front page, also.

This would make a good “This is Broken”: some guy was able to order 150 Windows XP SP2 CDs from Microsoft, and they sent them all, and in individual envelopes. Microsoft should put in a little dupe checking in that script of theirs.

The Incredibles, trailer 2. Hell, yeah. Take that, dilettante Dreamworks dickheads.

A few weeks ago, Canadian Journalist Scott Taylor was kidnapped by insurgents in northern Iraq. A Google search helped save his life. (Streaming audio)

Everyone who’s a citizen of the United States should be required to read the Voters Information Guide for the 2004 Election. The best part is the link to Just Vote in the absentee section. Those of you who live in New York and are still registered in Connecticut should definitely check that page out. I’m looking at you Chris and Mari.

Zoom in to a zipcode with zipdecode. I hate it when I see something and realize that I’ve wanted something like this, but just never connected the synapses to think that it would be either possible or cool.

Just after passing behind the Sun ("conjunction"), the twin Mars Rovers (Spirit and Opportunity) have received another six-month mission extension.

“qdot: NRRRRRR I HAVE 350 GBAs.”

I do three kinds of things at work:

1. Work. Sub-things: programming, monitoring management
2. Not work. Sub-things: surfing, programming
3. Semi-work. Usually proof-of-concept programming. This is the most interesting thing I do. WEBoggle started as a "what's this DOM thing I keep hearing about" semi-work. Here's another one.

The Half-Life 2, Counter-Strike: Source, and Half-Life: Source Release Candidates have been sent to Vivendi. Now we play the waiting game (some more).

The waiting game sucks. Let’s play Hungry, Hungry Hippos!