There's a Star Trek wiki, almost 26,000 articles.

Four filmmakers are traveling the world in search of pick-up soccer/football games, aiming to produce a documentary.

Walk Score rates where you live based on how easy it is to walk to what you need. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to take the presence of sidewalks into account, but it's still interesting.

Sofa Free is a photo collection of sofas left up for grabs.

A video of Merlin Mann talking to Google employees about Inbox Zero, e-mail management philosophy and technique. "Before you get good, you have to stop sucking." For the past two weeks, I've gone to bed with an empty inbox. It feels great. And now that I've got a good Seinfeld streak going (thx, Austin), I don't want to break it.

Lately there have been a couple good interviews with William Gibson in anticipation of his book, Spook Country. From his talk with the College Crier:

One of the assumptions that I had was that science fiction is necessarily always about the day in which it was written. And that was my conviction from having read a lot of old science fiction. 19th century science fiction obviously expresses all of the concerns and the neuroses of the 19th century and science fiction from the 1940's is the 1940's. George Orwell's 1984 is really 1948, the year in which he wrote it. It can't be about the future. It's about where the person who wrote it thought their present was, because you can't envision a future without having some sort of conviction, whether you express it or not in the text, about where your present is.

And recently on Amazon:

The thing that limits you with Google is what you can think of to google, really. There's some kind of personal best limitation on it, unless you get lucky and something you google throws up something you've never seen before. You're still really inside some annotated version of your own head.

Low-res pictures of fine jewelry distilled down to their fundamental brilliance, made into custom printed leather accessories: pixelated jewelry. [via userslib]

I was browsing through the Library of Congress website and came upon some cool posters from the Works Progress Administration. From that, I put together a little collection of library propaganda, lovely pro-literacy silkscreens and lithographs from our government.

Recent Flickr groups I like: Tea Sketches is tea stains + illustration, and Items We Carry is what people bring along in their pockets. Here's what I carry.

Holy smokes, I forgot my anniversary. It was about a year and a week ago that I offered the Web my first post. Here's to many more.

Mark Hurst just published a book to get you back on track: Bit Literacy: Productivity in the Age of Information and E-mail Overload. Could be a good one.

Here's 1500 or so prisoners dancing to Michael Jackson's Thriller. I love it. [via thought bucket]

Plates from George Catlin's 1844 North American Indian Portfolio. And I'm a sucker for celestial atlases, like Johann Rost's 1723 Atlas Portatilis Coelestis---note the fold-out pages for color illustrations. The Linda Hall Library has a number of other cool digital collections.

Janice Harayda pulled a very interesting quote from poet Philip Larkin---he isn't a big fan of poetry readings. The quote comes from an old interview in the Paris Review. I just finished the anthology Paris Review Interviews, Volume I, by the way. Very, very good reading. [via bookslut]

A simple infographic about Snape's cultural/emotional heritage. [via rebecca blood]

Sean calls it Pötterdämmerung. Just for that, Sean, I promise I'll get around to finishing book #3.

An open letter to Subway regarding cheese placement. Couldn't agree more.

On Flickr, Milo Manara's very graphic cartoon timeline of mankind.

A Jane Austen enthusiast ripped a few chapters from her books, changed the names, and submitted them to publishers. [via Mises]

I like Andy Rutledge's little essay on quiet structure: "Quiet structure is achieved when you de–emphasize the structural elements; the containing boxes, structural lines, bullets, structural color elements, etc… and bring a rhythmical consistency to the layout." A good grid is a powerful thing.