FreeBSD bike shed
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=506636+517178+/usr/local/www/db/text/1999/freebsd-hackers/19991003.freebsd-hackersTeehee
Nabble - Python - python-dev - An obscene computed goto bytecode hack for "switch" :)
http://www.nabble.com/An-obscene-computed-goto-bytecode-hack-for-"switch"-:)-td4910639.htmlEvil! I like it!
Bottle maturation, colour and ullage
http://www.jancisrobinson.com/articles/20070405Oxygen (does, does not) (retard, encourage) maturation. Also I learned a new word, ullage: "Free space above a liquid contained in a tank, drum or tank-container, expressed as a percentage of the total capacity."
Waterfootprint.org: Water footprint and virtual water
http://www.waterfootprint.org/?page=files/homeInteresting
A Healthy Relationship
http://egypt.urnash.com/Illustration/AHealthyRelationshipGlaDOS scorned (via Bryn)
Pop Feminist: Masculinity and the "Fall" of Starbucks
http://popfeminist.blogspot.com/2008/09/masculinity-and-fall-of-starbucks.htmlWait, now *asceticism* is masculine? Long bow
Fragile Web Development with SQL on Rails
http://www2.sqlonrails.org/images/book/sorbook_large.png
nonbeard 2008-09-04 06:26:44
Burrows-Wheeler transform - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burrows-Wheeler_transformMind is blown
PAX 2008: Ken Levine teaches us about comics, sex - Joystiq
http://www.joystiq.com/2008/08/29/pax-2008-ken-levine-teaches-us-about-comics-sex/Very funny talk about being a nerd. "Let me let you in on a little secret. When certain members of your D&D group start inappropriately buffing other members of your D&D group, when certain members of your D&D group start handing over primo loot drops to other members of your D&D group who don't necessarily deserve those loot drops, and the beneficiaries of this generosity happen to have names like Heather, Kelly, and Pam, the days of your D&D group are fucking numbered."
Deadprogrammer Visits Odessa : Part II : Balconies and Yards | Dead Programmer's Cafe
http://www.deadprogrammer.com/deadprogrammer-visits-odessa-part-iiDoorbells
Simple Top-Down Parsing in Python
http://effbot.org/zone/simple-top-down-parsing.htmThis is clever. I thought "what a well-written article!" before noticing it was by the effbot (and thus maybe letting my knowledge that he writes great articles bias my judgement).
Page F30: Five myths about languages and how to learn them
http://mithridates.blogspot.com/2008/08/five-myths-about-languages-and-how-to.html"Languages are not all equally difficult to learn" -- duh. "Children aren't just not gifted at learning languages, they actually suck" -- less obvious
Real-Time Concurrent Issues Drive Ada versus Java Choice | COTS Journal
http://www.cotsjournalonline.com/home/article.php?id=100827Freaking interesting (to me).
Cows point north thanks to in-built compasses - Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2623809/Cows-point-north-thanks-to-in-built-compasses.htmlHeadline
Totally Heavenly Product
http://www.crummy.com/2008/08/25/2I must assert that I’m generally one that does not love shopping online, but my concept on that has changed since I ordered my RESTful Web Services from ebay...
$Quid: Don't Go Boating If You Owe Money to a Giant Squid
http://io9.com/5041137/dont-go-boating-if-you-owe-money-to-a-giant-squidThis is great.
Are you peeling bananas wrong? - By Steven E. Landsburg - Slate Magazine
http://www.slate.com/id/2067407/My friend Chris reckons that bananas ripen from the end furthest from the stem. But I just ate one that was clearly ripest at the stem end. This article is inconclusive.
Dennis' Whiskey Corner: Rye
http://www.mindspring.com/~mccarthys/whiskey/rye.htm"The sky is free, but the earth lives. The earth brings all our needs, but the sky contains our dreams. Ultimately earth cannot not prevent our desires from going where we cannot walk. Old Overholt is of the earth, yet from there it leads my spirit far away."
IMG_2800 on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/21468745@N04/2147395103Sweet dress made from eyeball yarn
Insubordiknit Handspun Yarn Shop: Vitreous humor
http://www.insubordiknit.com/yarn/archives/000861.phpYarn with eyeballs!
Baby's First Teratoma
http://www.theanticraft.com/archive/samhain06/teratoma.htmMore things for Catie to knit
YouTube - Robot helping Human - correcting human error
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0Gbgg-Vq34It's condescend-o-bot, the humiliator! The best part is the way he makes almost a complete circle with his arm before screwing in the nut, and the meat sack's eyes obligingly follow. (via engadget)
Ostrich Egg | Dead Programmer's Cafe
http://www.deadprogrammer.com/ostrich-eggThe baked ostrich egg roll at the end is surely a dailyhfs candidate
Language Log » The Big Penis Book
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=505Starts with "big penis book", ends up talking about why e.g. "penis lengthy article" is unacceptable but "penis indigenous nudity" is acceptable. I can't *not* bookmark this.
The Tombs of Asciiroth
http://www.icculus.org/asciiroth/This is a really impressive Web-based rougelike. Actually it seems like a pretty great roguelike and the Web part is incidental, which is itself quite an accomplishment imo
GoNintendo » Blog Archive » Will Wright defends Miyamoto ‘games are better than toys’ statement, shares more of his Nintendo love- What are you waiting for?
http://gonintendo.com/?p=52237"The Wii, the way it’s reading the controller, you actually have a lot more bandwidth. It’s still a straw, but it’s a big straw - and for me that’s the really interesting part about the Wii." -- interesting perspective from Will Wright.
Michael J. Totten: The Decline and Fall of Adbusters Magazine
http://www.michaeltotten.com/archives/000294.htmlI just bought this magazine, and have learned two things: 1) I am desperately unhip, since according to this guy it jumped the shark in 2004; 2) it hasn't improved since that time.
See-Through Animal Photos, Translucent Creatures Wallpapers, Download, Photos -- National Geographic
http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/photos/translucent-creatures/translucent-pelagic-octopus-newbert.htmlSweet gallery of translucent animals that Bruce Schneier linked to accidentally
EXTERMINUS
http://bustedwonder.com/exterminus/A cqqqquuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu a (via Jason)
C++ FQA Lite: Defective C++
http://yosefk.com/c++fqa/defective.htmlWhine whine (but I have whined about these things too, so it must be legitimate whining).
Why licenses don’t matter (and why they do) « Sententia cdsmithus
http://cdsmith.wordpress.com/2008/05/06/why-licenses-dont-matter-and-why-they-do/I'd come to the same conclusions as this guy, but he gets there via a rather different route (though we both used the "computer programmers like to pretend that people behave logically" theory)
Mad Engineering: Five Reasons You Don't Have a Personal Jet Pack Yet
http://io9.com/5029930/five-reasons-you-dont-have-a-personal-jet-pack-yet"So why the hell aren't we all flying to work via rocket power? Because you're about as aerodynamic as a potato, my friend." Someone had to say it.
SimplyNoise.com - The best free white noise generator on the Internet.
http://www.simplynoise.com/This is such a great opportunity for b-grade horror-film-style mind control.
The beat issue « Emily Short’s Interactive Fiction
http://emshort.wordpress.com/2008/07/27/the-beat-issue/On having characters in interactive fiction react to their environment in a satisfying, illusion-preserving way.
Sexual Math on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/snowfreak91287/2158987801/This is way better than that Pink Floyd cover (SFW)
Mercurial and Darcs : The Fugue
http://hans.fugal.net/blog/articles/2007/11/16/mercurial-and-darcsHey, I've used about a million RCSes now, I did what this guy did (darcs to mercurial), and most importantly I'm a guy on the Internet with an opinion -- I should blog about this too sometime.
MY COLLECTION OF RECORDED 78 RPM RECORDS - FREE MP3 DOWNLOADS
http://78records.cdbpdx.com/Pretty great.
Rands In Repose: The Quirkbook
http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2008/07/18/the_quirkbook.htmlTwo M&Ms at a time? Volume evenly divisible by 5? Freaks.
Language Log » Braised enterovirus, anyone?
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=367Mmm, braised enterovirus. Also: fuck the pot, bao zai, water to boil the type. Fuck a bullfrog
google-code-prettify - Google Code
http://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/This actually guesses which language to use. That's way cooler than Google's recent reimplementation of ASN.1
Elephas maximus - Racetrack Playa
http://yathin.livejournal.com/201542.html#cutid1Dolomite races!
Age 1 to 100 banging on a drum
http://www.noob.us/miscellaneous/age-1-to-100-banging-on-a-drum/Awesome!
FORA.tv - Neal Stephenson: Science Fiction as a Literary Genre | Beyond the Beyond from Wired.com
http://blog.wired.com/sterling/2008/07/foratv---neal-s.htmlCulturally, it's difficult to distinguish SF from "the mainstream" because "the mainstream" *is* SF. But it does not follow intellectual trends, and is morally heterogeneous, so to critics it remains "a genre".
Two AI Pioneers. Two Bizarre Suicides. What Really Happened?
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/16-02/ff_aimystery?currentPage=allNote to self: don't turn out like these guys
Here's the new Mirror's Edge 2D trailer and some 3D screenshots - Joystiq
http://www.joystiq.com/2008/07/10/heres-the-new-mirrors-edge-2d-trailer-and-3d-screenshots/This looks like a sweet concept. I love the idea of parkour but am too lazy to actually do it. A game about it would be just the ticket.
We have lost control of the apparatus
http://weblog.raganwald.com/2007/09/we-have-lost-control-of-apparatus.html"databases suck"
Core77 / design magazine + resource / post
http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/chinese_minicastles_protected_by_un_10426.aspnonbeard 2008-07-10 01:08:51
Algae Eating Cyprinids from Thailand and Neighboring
http://www.aquatic-gardeners.org/cyprinid.htmlThe flying fox-looking fish with the smooth stripe is fine in a community tank. The remarkably-similar-looking fish also known as a flying fox with a slightly bumpy stripe is intensely territorial and hates other fish of the same species
Fake Difficulty - Television Tropes & Idioms
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FakeDifficultynonbeard 2008-07-07 17:49:49