Nomah has been re-signed, according to Cubs.com. And for only one year. Great deal. Now go get Walker and minimize the Neifi factor.

UPDATE: Walker signed as well for one year with a $2.5 million option, AP says. Great stuff. Unless he gets injured, there’s just about no way he won’t start the vast majority of games at second base next year. And with the Tony Womack bullet dodged and Patterson’s leadoff ability seriously in doubt, Walker may wind up at the top of the order where he belongs. We shall see.

This leaves outfielder/possible Sosa trade and closer as the big moves yet to be made.

This site is so very disturbing in so very many ways. If you’re a sucker for mid-1990s era god-awful Web design, animated gifs galore, background MIDI music, obscenely large families and unusual religious beliefs, then the Cronshaw family Web site is a must-see.

Perhaps most disturbing is Matthew Allan’s Fun House. Is it a girl with a boy’s name or a boy who looks like a girl? Your guess is as good as mine.

Via MozillaZine, I happened upon a Web site for software developers called the Interface Hall of Shame, “an irreverent collection of common interface design mistakes.”

The site features screenshots of bad from different software programs accompanied by a critique of some kind. Some of the material here, like the sections on tabs, visual elements and terminology were of limited interest to me as a nondeveloper, but the sections on interface stupdity and illogical error messages are at times tear-inducingly funny. Here are some favorites.

Ah, the circle of life:

Options galore?

How comforting!

Apparently they are, to judge by this advertisement spat out by Google’s advertising algorithms, as spotted in a Gmail message which contained my post about an odd-looking exhibit at the new American Indian museum in Washington, D.C.

This comes fresh on the heels of Google News’ big scoop on Dubya’s arrest by the Canucks for war crimes.

Bonus trivia: A good name for a neo-’80s type band would be Algorithmics.