When you were here before, I couldn't look you in the eye

I am having second thoughts about this blog. I mean, its raison d'être is "telling people about things that are cool," and while I have excellent taste in things that are cool, it occurs to me that this is not exactly a unique service I am offering here.
Indeed, there are about nine hundred billion websites that do just that, and there are probably even sites out there to tell you which of these sites are cooler than others. So what am I doing exactly?

Well, today I am celebrating Morbid Fascination Day
yay!

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice used to list the last meals ordered by its death row inmates. Crazily enough, somebody thought this was in poor taste, so they took it down. However, this site archives them. The choices are interesting, and sometimes revealing.

And here is a community art project, in which people write down their secrets anonymously on a postcard and mail them in. Pretty intense stuff.

brrr.
A Softer World is fiction, happily, but is frequently similar in spirit. It falls somewhere between childlike innocence and serious creepiness,
and if you're totally appalled by everything I've linked to so far, Making Fiends is very cute, and should offer a slight reprieve.