News You Can Bruise for 2003 June 1

Here's the thing: Downhill. It's basically an Oracle of Bacon for weblogs. It uses the weblog ecosystem data to find the shortest path between any two weblogs, measured by outgoing and incoming links. I was surprised not to find a preexisting implementation of this, but now it's been done. Just my contribution to the LazyWeb.

If you need to jump-start your personal slang dictionary, try Kevan's Infinite Teen Slang Dictionary. Works especially well if you have catchphrases you use but you've been holding off writing a dictionary because the catchphrases have no meaning. Works not at all unless you're a high school student, and not the nerdy kind of high school student all of us reading this were, either.