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Genius! Getting from “Queer Spank” to “Erect Bone” requires a four zone ticket.

As prophesized in Freakonomics, an extremely usable web database of house market values. Realtors have just become 50% less necessary. Hooray.

Fantastic news: VMWare are making their server product free(beer). I’m almost certainly going to use this for a dev server at work — Backup the virtual machine image every night, and if hardware crashes, just startup your backed-up image on a new machine. Also gets around the “You can’t create an image” limitation of the free VMWare Player app.

Silly fun little webapp — Draw a picture, submit it, get a new one in return.

T-shirts for $10 if you use their “secret” codes.

Joy & I saw this on Broadway last weekend, and absolutely loved it. Both funny and moving, and the theatre is brilliantly decked out like a school gymnasium, inside and out! Highly recommended.

Classic British kids TV show turned into a touring musical by Joe Pasquale! (via my sister, whose email had the subject line “Yes, really”)

Keep track of items you purchase from Amazon — If they drop the price within 30 days, you can get a quibble-free refund. I got back $9 from them today for four CDs I purchased last month! I might try and make a bookmarklet or GreaseMonkey script to handle this automagically.

Excellent, fascinating Malcolm Gladwell article about the uselessness of “profiling” as a tool to attack crime.

Interesting solution to the problem of knowing if anyone’s replied to a comment you’ve left on someone else’s blog.

Complete video walkthroughs of classic Speccy games (although JSW has clearly been poked to avoid the Attic bug).

“Simply pour in your coffee or any hot beverage and watch the painstaking work of the founding fathers vanish before your eyes.” Genius!