It seemed to appear out of nowhere; one morning it was there, a mysterious button where an empty purple space had been before, and no one knew quite what to make it. Some wondered, some asked, still other brave souls tried to find out for themselves... if it had been in physical space instead of web space, they would have been gingerly approaching to poke it with sticks. And they found something cool.

So as you might have noticed by the button below the navigation links, In Passing will be participating in a nifty new project. Metacookie is the work of Kevin "Internet Superstar who's too busy to come to MCB lecture" Fox. (Not that my own attendance record for that class is stellar, though...)

Anyway.

Metacookie is in beta phase now, but eventually you will be able to visit metacookie.com, and see which of your favorite weblogs/news sites have been updated since you last visited. Of course, now there's no excuse for mindlessly surfing the same 10 sites for hours at a time hoping for an update, but that kind of behavior kind of kills productivity anyway.
Pretty cool, huh?