The Clarion Foundation website is live, and they’ve come up with a brilliant idea for funding the program. Join the “Clarion Circle” for $50 a year and you can chat with professional writers online (Kim Stanley Robinson and Karen Joy Fowler are on deck), and get access to “…Clarion instructors and other professional writers for critiques of manuscripts and career advice.”

Clothing company Edoc Laundry is developing a line of clothing that will embed clues to the secrets of an alternate reality game in the patterns on the clothing.

Unipage firmly supports my faith in the unifying power of html. Their free Unipage Unifier saves a complete web page as a single file that can be viewed in any web browser, without recourse to (godawfully slow) plug-ins. Sounds like a potentially viable alternative to PDF to me.

Guerilla News Network is not exactly an impartial arbiter of truth (but then, who is these days). Even so, in “Annexing Khuzestan” they make specific and falsifiable predictions about the future of the American war in the Middle East, a bold statement that makes for interesting reading.

Beer company Miller won’t let you just walk away from their delicious and nutricious spam. Used a throwaway address? No problem, they’ll track you down.