Distractions

Didn’t you always want to worship a Great Old One? Here’s a collection of articles about using Lovecraft’s Mythos in your Magick rituals, including one on sex with Cthulhu.

Reminder to self: Look at Warren Ellis’s Orderingcomics.com before ordering my comics next time.
If anyone in Israel sees this – I order my comics from Comics World. Check them out.

Malcolm Gladwell has some excellent articles archived online, previously published in the New Yorker. The ones I read were about job interviews (interesting), new findings on menstruation and the pill (effecting) and the woman who runs the world (fascinating!)

A programming article describing how the author wrote a faster XML parser (in Java) than a “popular DOM-based parser”. Slightly interesting because he uses a different data structure instead of the usual tree. But there are plenty of unbelivably slow Java parsers for XML, especially those that implement a DOM interface.