Quickhit

[Business advice from Houdini](http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/580-five-marketingbusiness-lessons-from-harry-houdini). Actually, there's a lot in that list which would work pretty well for politics or policy design too.

[A super computer in a chapel](http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/heavy-metal/marenostrum-the-worlds-most-gorgeous-super+computer-293608.php). If that photo doesn't send a shiver down your spine, it's because you'e never read Arthur C. Clarke's [*The Nine Billion Names…

Unstuck the post feed. It turns out when you tell WordPress to publish stuff in 2008, it doesn't go 'no, he probably didn't mean that' and publish them…

[Olympus is releasing cameras that detect when you're smiling](http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/digital-cameras/olympus-fe-series-cameras-have-smile-recognition-other-fun-features-up-to-12-megapixels-292473.php). Of course, because it's an Olympus it will then take a further three seconds to actually *take* the photo.…

[Super deformed Star Wars plush figures](http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/plush/9405/). [Super Deformed](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_deformed), in case you don't know, is the art style where the character has a very big head, which started in…

[TV personality Robert X. Cringely is leading an effort for a private moon flight](http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_20070927_003043.html). Given his previous efforts to [build a plane](http://www.amazon.com/Plane-Crazy-3pc-Gift-Set/dp/B00003A9RW), I greatly look forward to this…

[Chilling story of how close World War III came in 1983](http://www.overcomingbias.com/2007/09/926-is-petrov-d.html). And the man who saved us all. I'm with [Megan McArdle](http://meganmcardle.theatlantic.com/archives/2007/09/spasebo_stanislav_petrov.php): Why is there not some kind…

[The American Institute of Graphic Art Year in Design selections](http://designarchives.aiga.org/) Hours and hours of clever graphic design here.

[John Cleese to start podcasting](http://tpn.thepodcastnetwork.com/2007/09/27/john-cleese-to-release-new-video-series-in-conjunction-with-the-podcast-network/). While I'm talking about The Podcast Network, I should mention that their [Napoleon 101](http://napoleon.thepodcastnetwork.com/) podcast is superb.

[A film projector from 1958](http://www.shorpy.com/project-management-1958). Having been involved in a film society, I can tell you that it looks pretty much (with a few small things only) like…