Monday link dump

Because I'm too lazy to actually work today. ;-)

First of all, Val is looking for recipe testers. Check it out.

Plot bunnies and such for your perusal:

• Biology of B-Movie Monsters


• Ultrathin fingerprint sensor


• fossilized spiders and vampire sea spiders


• quantum computing


• Freedom Ship


• NEPTUNE

Other cool stuff:

• Scientific American on the expert mind. Ten years to master something? Interesting ideas. If you have the print edition, it's Full article: Philip E. Ross, "The Expert Mind," Scientific American, August 2006, pp. 69-70.
  
  Oh, and they have these special editions you can buy online. I want this one.


• From anghara, a visited-states map.
  Mind you, many of these are ones I've just driven through. Looks good, though. I haven't visited enough countries to make the country map worth doing.


• Via matociquala, the word count meter.

Random links for toys:

• What the boy got from his grandparents for his birthday


• Or perhaps you prefer Vikings or pirates?