How (and how not) to cheat in in online poker. Related: confessions of a golf hustler. At MetaFilter.

Elsewhere in what I misleadingly call the news:

* A somewhat surprising comparison of the achievements of the 2007 "New Direction" Democratic congress and the 1995 "Contract with America" Republican congress, at Cogitamus. They fare a lot better than I would have expected, though not nearly as well as they ought to have given the mood of the country.



* Austin Kleon has a great post on attempts to fashion "The Bible According to Jesus," with a fantastic illustration.



* How poker, the "cheater's game," has become younger and more intense as high-stakes games become increasingly mainstream, in The Economist.