Weirdness Magnet - Television Tropes & Idioms

"For some reason, the character is always standing at the intersection of Strange Street and Bizarre Boulevard." This whole site is great.

Hot and Spicy Tofu - Allrecipes

Food.

Garlic Ginger Tofu - Allrecipes

Food.

Lentils And Spinach - Allrecipes

Scrambled Tofu - Allrecipes

Food.

Jura Books | Keen for Revolution?

Jeremy's bookshop (thanks Suzy!)

Mr McCloud's Cloud Quiz

"[Mr McCloud] carries a lightning walking stick that he uses to herd and scare people with and lives in a cloud environment, with a cloud house and cloud car etc. He has a cloud farm with a herd of fluffy cloud sheep." I love "cloud car etc". All the usual cloud accoutrements.

Understanding Version-Control Systems (DRAFT)

Weird, no references to cunnilingus or the female psyche.

The importance of stupidity in scientific research -- Schwartz 121 (11): 1771 -- Journal of Cell Science

Well I certainly feel stupid, so I must be on the right track. :) (via Hugh)

Jacket 17 - David Lehman - The Ern Malley Poetry Hoax - Introduction

Ern Malley

The recent boring "hoax" of Quadrant had one thing going for it: it introduced me to the Ern Malley caper.

"The Structure and Performance of Efficient Interpreters" - Google Search

So-called "direct threading" went into Python recently, resulting in up to 15% speedup on pybench. This paper covers a number of optimisations for interpreters, including direct threading. Humorously, currawong's concrete implementation in QEmu accidentally uses direct threading because it was easiest -- if I'd wanted performance I wouldn't then jump directly back to a large switch() statement!

George Bush to award John Howard the US freedom medal | The Australian

Hahahaha

#349916 - Pastie

Teehee, the Zune bug is an infinite loop in ConvertDays

Kloonigames » Blog Archive » Day 1: Crayon Physics Deluxe for the iPhone

Woohoo

Catching disk latency in the act : The Observation Deck

Talk softly to your disks.

Janus: Papers of the Board of Longitude

Board of Longitude. So awesome! This was essentially a science project established in 1714 and only truly finished in 1762, with the development of a sufficiently-accurate clock

http://www.socialfiction.org/gilgameshforapes.pdf

Too weird not to post. Come for the pictures, stay for the commentary at the end (Enkidu is an ape? WTF)

Target Women // Current

Poking fun at the way women are portrayed in advertising (crummy.com)

High Assurance (for Security or Safety) and Free-Libre / Open Source Software (FLOSS)... with Lots on Formal Methods / Software Verification

The interesting part of this tedious license-focussed rant, for me, is the list of OSS theorem provers and SMT solvers at the end, for constraint checking in Currawong.

The Chronicle. » Blog Archive » people will talk.

The Indian woman has scars and blemishes, the Caucasian woman has perfect skin. Good job. (via daringfireball)

LiveLeak.com - The Hillbilly Hot-Tub!

Fantastic, though the ecstatic groaning is kind of NSFW

Age 10 to 60 - through Make-up & Photography « Gems Sty

Or as I like to think of it, "About 16 to early 50s". Still very impressive

Twitter / kickbee

"Wow I'm being very active! I kicked Mommy 258 times at 03:44AM on Thu, Dec 11!" I hope this is a test post.

List of common misconceptions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Hahaha. "This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it". Presumably either by contributing to the article directly, or just by spreading more misinformation.

Wearable toy piano makes music, looks good doing it - Engadget

This is a piano on a shirt. I really like the design! The guy has skills. I'd play him.

Talking heads | HIV / AIDS, science, sex, drugs

"We say 'We need more AIDS funding because otherwise the epidemic could get a whole lot bigger and affect women and children' and policy-makers hear 'Blah blah blah AIDS blah blah blah women and children'". Funny, clever talk from (inspiring) epidemiologist Elizabeth Pisani.

Inside ELF Symbol Tables : Ali Bahrami

Okay, .dynsym is small and contains global symbols only, for dynamic linking; .symtab is large (superset of .dynsym) and contains all symbols, for debugging. Got it.

The new Cicero

"In English, when we use the word "rhetoric", it is generally preceded by the word "empty". Rhetoric has a bad reputation." Seriously interesting opinion on Obama's speaking style from the perspective of classic Greek oratory.

Cooks.com - Recipe - Fluffy Eggless Pancakes

Consensus was: don't omit the baking powder; don't add artificial strawberry essence. Ooh, I also have mint essence. I wonder what mint pancakes would taste like?

CIA.vc

Tell it about your repos and it broadcasts that information to various places. Nice idea. Ideas for Mothra

Financial crisis an act of God, says James Bidgood | The Australian

Wiley::Building Self-Confidence for Dummies

Teehee (via mind hacks)

RSC Press Release: £1,000,000 for 100% chemical free material?

Woohoo. This bugs me.

Exploring multiple execution paths for malware analysis - CiteSeerX

Symbolic execution research reference

Compiler Optimization Correctness by Temporal Logic | UMSEC

Similar but different

YouTube - Nicole Kidman on Late Show w/ David Letterman Nov 24 2008 Part 1

Dude spends 5 minutes talking about her husband.

Schneier on Security: <i>Here Comes Everybody</i> Review

This book suggests that organisations exist to amortise transaction costs (Coase's theorem), but will a) collapse if the internal bureaucracy gets too cumbersome (Coase's ceiling) and b) (this is the new bit) not even form if the transaction costs of individual interactions are sufficiently low (Coase's floor).

Japanese Infographic Video: Ensuring the Future of Food

Great Röyksopp-style video on Japan's changing food requirements (via jaqx0r)

BibleGateway.com - Passage Lookup: 1 Corinthians 13;

As a rampant atheist it feels weird to bookmark the bible, but this couldn't be more pretty if I were remotely religious. Also, it's very funny to read all the translations except the KJV call it "love" rather than "charity"

jamesoff.net » Random Recipe Generator

Anecdotes - Joel on Software

I don't have room to explain here, so it will sound glib, but basically I think having someone to bitch at / with has vastly improved Joel's articles. Now I think he's awesome. :-)

Let's Bee Friends E-Card from Hallmark E-Cards

Bees, bees, I like bees

Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell

I'm reading this. But I might forget about it. So if you read this and then see me I would much appreciate it if you asked me where in the book I am up to. Update: I finished it! Recommended.

urban knitting: the world's most inoffensive graffiti

Subversive!

YouTube - Korean Trick or Treating GONE WRONG

This is so cute

The Amateur Gourmet - The Best Broccoli of Your Life

This is a broccoli recipe. I dunno, I've had some pretty good broccoli.

Currawong swooping on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Great action shot

The Sound Patterns and Oral Performance of Poetry and Their Acoustic Correlates

Main page for the Kubla Khan notes in previous bookmark. Cool

Kubla1Empirical

A more detailed analysis than I ever could have expected of several readings of lines 3-5 of one of my favourite poems. Reader #2 (Richardson) sounds like Gandalf.