Nice web widget on Kottke's website.

Another nice bit by Paul Ford

Sent to me by Alan Losinger, kindred spirit and true hand-tool maven.

Quoted: This is the largest Swiss Army knife in the world, holder of the Guinness World Record for The Most Multifunctional Penknife, with 87 precision-engineered tools spanning 112 functions. Made by Wenger, crafters of genuine Swiss Army knives since 1893.

A bit of a one-tone joke, but it's a pretty good one.

The New Yorker's cartoon caption contest is surprisingly entertaining. The link is to their archives of past winners.

A specialty ratings site for those dumb products As Seen On TV!

Quoted: i feel like murdering all the guys who acted in the advertisement

Quoted: ...The franchise I visited, on Hollywood Boulevard near my old apartment, looked like it had withstood assault by bullets, flamethrowers, Baseball Furies, and a hundred hook-handed whores. Everything inside the store—including the employees and customers—looked like it had been rubbed with sad ham...

Quoted: Review: Windows XP I have finally decided to take the plunge. Last night I upgraded my Vista desktop machine to Windows XP ... All I can say is "wow!" You can see that a lot of work has gone into making XP more reliable than its predecessor. The random program crashes, and hangs appear to be a thing of the past.