Snow madness + sexy links

It's snowing sideways outside: big tasty flakes. Little kidlings are frolicking around on the steps, all bundled up, and all classes have been canceled. The snow is still accumulating, but I think it's almost time to whip out the big boots and do a little frolicking myself. This is exciting!

In honor of the snow day, I am sledding the intertubes instead of working. Some tidbits:

• Neil Gaiman is not - I repeat - definitely not writing an upcoming episode of Doctor Who. This nonexistent episode, originally titled "The House of Nothing", will fail to air in approximately 14 months. 
• In botnet news, a new Russian Trojan has started trying to kill its password-stealing rivals. This has happened before, but it's still slightly alarming. The internet is beginning to look more and more like a petri dish, squirming with dumb-but-elegant, cannibalistic, increasingly autonomous entities, programmed to reproduce at every opportunity. If you've ever played Spore, you should be getting nervous. Still, this could be fun -  Russell Munroe tells me they they make great pets (click image to embiggen):