On The Use of Code in Weblog Titles
So you've decided to start a weblog and have a really clever idea for titling it based on a snippet of code you find particularly novel. Rad!
Digg Scares Me (403 Go Away!)
403 Go Away!
Best 500 Page Eva!
Reddit Broke (Sorry).
analogies.google.com
Need an analogy but don’t have the time to actually think of one your self?
Netscape 8 - Setting the browser back two years
How to not understand the value of a web browser.
Watching people watch stuff at the Magic Kingdom
One of the many interesting anecdotes waiting for you in Neil Stephenson’s “In The Beginning Was The Command Line”
How the other half lives
A report on meeting real life evil people.
No More Secrets
Ian McKeller shows how easy it is to find web API “secret keys” when the user has access to the (network) client code. It’s actually a nice little crash coarse in how to write cracking software (here “crack” means warez scene type “crack”). That crazy shit like this is possible is why I got into software in the first place. Completely
Extension/Scripting language comparisons - comp.lang.scheme
“While I do consider the adjective ‘baroque’ to be a compliment, I must point out that Perl is actually more of a romantic piece, with allusions to various classical motifs. My favorite composer is Mahler, which should surprise no one.” — Larry Wall
Concluding Remarks
Jean-Jacques Dubray: “How do the RESTafarians work? They take Roy’s REST, they try to use it for anything in their day to day activities, and then when they stumble upon a problem, they try to find a more or less ‘RESTful’ solution and post it on a blog.”
Precisely!
Obama 'could stop using e-mail'
BBC: “The paper quoted aides saying that his emails, sometimes sent as late as 0100 or 0300, were ‘generally crisp, properly spelled and free of symbols or emoticons’.”
Can you imagine?
Dear Mr. Karzai,
im in ur country, bombing ur lands. =p
k thx.
--
- O
Reverse HTTP
Allows a server to turn the tables and make HTTP requests to the client. I've been trying to come up with some use for this for 45 minutes and I'm totally baffled but it’s kind of interesting anyways.
Qwitter: Catching Twitter quitters
Sends an email notification when someone stops following you on Twitter. I don’t have the nervous system for it myself.
Dear Leg-Shaker
I'm pretty sure this exact thought occurs to everyone that sits at a table connected to mine on a daily—maybe hourly—basis. I'm sorry!
The Subprime Primer
The financial crisis explained using the crappiest cartoon stick figures ever. Also, the best overview I've seen yet.
Dead Man's Switch
Sends emails to people when you die. Awesome.
“This is how this works. You write a few e-mails, and choose the recipients. These emails are encrypted with military-grade algorithms, so you can be sure that no-one except the intended recipient will ever read them. Your switch will email you every so often, asking you to show that you are fine by clicking a link. If something were to… happen… to you, your switch would then send the emails you wrote to the recipients you specified. Sort of an ‘electronic will’, one could say.”
Typography for Lawyers
For lawyers?!?? This site is way too useful and right to limit it to lawyers.
Shaper_pmp explains the importance of pedantry
“It also becomes a good-natured game. Think of it like golf. In golf you’re trying to hit the ball into the hole in fewer strokes than your opponent. In Pedantry Golf you’re trying to be more correct than your opponent, by correcting edge-cases, mistakes or assumptions in the previous post or statement (see also: Perl Golf).”
Caganer
“… the caganer is often tucked away in a corner of the model, typically nowhere near the manger scene. There is a good reason for his obscure position in the display, for ‘caganer’ translates from Catalan to English as ‘pooper’, and that is exactly what this little statue is doing — defecating.”
rsync.net - Terms of Service
Nice TOS: “We are engineers, and we, like you, know very well how you want to be served by us, just as you know very well what not to do here.”
The Letter in the Pond
Letter found hidden beneath a backyard pond to the person who would eventually remove the pond. One of the best pieces of writing I've seen all year.
Firefox Add-on: AmIOnMySpace.com
“This plugin will alert you if you accidentally stumble onto MySpace.com, and take you back to the site you came from.”
The giant cow that's the size of a baby elephant
… and other freakishly large animal pr0n. Awesome. (via sogrady)
xkcd: Forks and Spoons
Reading xkcd has become one of my last regular forms of physical exercise. My abs are burning right now from violent guttural reactions to this one.
Just add scaling!
“I still haven’t found anyone who knows how you implement Scaling in a language, so I guess that LRM will never have it… Anyone who care to enlighten me, please send me a detailed email with an implementation of Scaling.”
‘I DRINK YOUR MILKSHAKE!’: A Guide to Proper Usage
I finally watched “There Will Be Blood” a few days ago and the milkshake line practically jumps out of the movie at you. I have no idea what the hell happened in the movie but that line made it all worth while.
That Vista Thud is the sound of executive layoffs
eWeek: “… Nearly every Microsoft executive associated with the Windows Vista launch has left the company. Vista has proven to be a career-ending enterprise …”
My initial reaction to Google App Engine (in Simon Willison's comments)
I've since went to sleep and reawakened. I'm typically fairly curmudgeony when I wake up but I'm still having the same reaction.
Indexed
The more interesting aspects of life described using only venn diagrams, an occasional line graph, and a scatter plot here and there.
Scientists fight to save the last Java gibbons
I thought this was a computer programming related article … buh-zing!
Dion Almaer's Home Page
This takes “the use of code in weblog titles” to a whole new level. Hilarious.
Mozilla Bug 417302 – about:robots
“In the spirit of the Firefox 3 firstrun pages, I would like to permanently commemorate the noble deeds of the robot community in their fight for an open web.”
The Ten Commandments of Unicode
“I am Unicode, thy character set. Thou shalt have no other character sets before me.”
Javascript online massive social password cracking ?
Yes! Please. Make your friends on myspace work for you. Idle CPU is wasted CPU, dontchaknow.
NginxHttpEmptyGifModule
“The ngx_http_empty_gif_module keeps a 1x1 transparent GIF in memory that can be served very quickly.” — That’s so amazingly awesome; spacer.gif for life.
Dumb and Dumber in 5 Seconds [youtube.com]
This is far and away the funniest part of the movie… Whelp, see ya later.
Unfortunately, I think it's a little more complicated than that...
“Math class is tough; let’s go shopping!”
IBM Web services guru predicts WSDL future
From 2002: “On this latter specification, Sutor is emphatic: web services are defined by whether they are described in WSDL.”
This is where you send new features into the ghetto so that they can 'battle it out' ...
“The last features standing get re-integrated into another branch known as the ‘trailer park’ to try to find a new life for themselves. Note that ghetto is frequently called ‘trunk’, and the trailer park something like ‘releng’”
RubyForge: cameltoe-0.0.1-released
“Cameltoe is a set of utility functions for making Ruby objects more like camel toes.” — You've piqued my interest :) It looks like this adds a String#cameltoeize method, amongst other things…
W3C's Excessive DTD Traffic
“Our hope was that the authors of misbehaving software and the administrators of sites who deployed it would notice these errors and make the necessary fixes to the software responsible.” – You must be new here.
Translation From PR-Speak to English of Selected Portions of Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang's Company-Wide Memo Regarding the Microsoft Takeover Bid
“Welcome to Microsoft.”
Modern Firefox Theme That Looks Like Netscape 3.0 Running On Windows 3.1
This is pretty funny. Even the options dialogs are themed.
Yoda Fail
“… sued the restaurant where she worked saying she was promised a new Toyota for winning a beer sales contest in April. Berry, 26, believed that she had won a new car, but she was blindfolded, led to the parking lot and presented a toy Yoda …”
Microsoft Boy Announces His School Homework
“What is catching users' eyes? Legibility, correctness, conciseness…. the list goes on and on. Simply put, this history essay is a significant release for me – one that builds on all of the great things that I was able to deliver last year […]”
“The Bug Count Also Rises” by John Browne
“Hernando who worked down the hall and who was large with microbrews came to him and told him that the ship day was upon them but the bugs were not yet out. The bugs which were always there even when you were in Cafes late at night sipping a …”
The Speed-up Loop [thedailywtf.com]
“Nothing – and I mean nothing – in IT takes less than 80 hours, and whatever you think it’ll actually take, multiply it by 20, and tell management that. You see, 80/20.”
War Breaks Out Between Hackers and Scientology -- There Can Be Only One
“… people of the Internet, the YTMNDers, trolls of the world, the GameFAQs members, the eBaumers; us old time Internet users, and the newest of noobs, the YouTubers and MySpacers, must band together for a fight that transcends our differences …” :)
The Standard Trolls
Microsoft missing the point with regards to “standards”? Inconceivable! Every time I read stuff like this I wonder if it’s intellectual dishonesty or if the folks over at MS are really this ignorant. You have to lean toward dishonesty here, I think.
Rap Lyrics Explained With Charts and Graphs
Includes a nice chart of the Differentiation of Fat Joe’s Liquid Based Promiscuity :)
Sun and MySQL: I don't get it
Oops: “At $1 billion … Sun paid a multiple of 10 times sales for MySQL today. Optimistically assuming a 20% profit margin, they are looking at a multiple of 50 times earnings for a return on investment of around 2% per year. Optimistically.”
How Software Companies Die
Orson Scott Card: “You can domesticate programmers the way beekeepers tame bees. You can’t exactly communicate with them, but you can get them to swarm in one place and when they’re not looking, you can carry off the honey.”
The apostrophe key does not mean "Holy shit, here comes an s!"
“You think your better then me just because you no grammar?” :)
I need a woman who is willing to raise a child with me in the method of Unix
“Other than the fact our child will be bright, text-based and sarcastic, we will otherwise be a normal family.”
DNA seen through the eyes of a coder
“Like with unix, cells are not ‘spawned’ – they are forked. All cells started out from your ovum which has forked itself many times since. Both halves of the fork() are identical to begin with, but they may from then on decide to do different things.”
PEP 3117 -- Postfix type declarations
“After careful considering, much soul-searching, gnashing of teeth and rending of garments, it has been decided to reject this PEP.”
The Two Types of Programmers
From IMil in comments: “Shocking statement #(n+1): 80% of the 80% believe that they belong to [the] 20%.” A recursively shocking statement! i.e., (0..Infinity).inject (0.8) { |x,n| x * 0.8 }
Anti-Terrorism and the Death of the Chemistry Set
“Modern fascist states don’t even bother to kill those people, and pretending they’re going to show up in some stormtrooper outfit and start a gun battle with you is insane.”
Bullshit Is Most Important Issue For 2008 Voters
“No one party has a monopoly on bullshit” … “it’s not just about talking bullshit, it’s also about living it…”
The New BackUp Commercial
“… and mounts your shotgun flush at your bedside enabling access to your shotgun while in the laying position in your bed!”
An unordered list of thoughts I had during a conference call with a potential client today
“Facebook isn’t the internet, dipshit.”
Paul Graham Facts
“Paul Graham can divide by zero — and the answer is ‘Paul Graham’” … “Paul Graham invented Al Gore” … “Paul Graham is a default constructor. He takes no arguments.”
The Mythical Business Layer
“It was as if its architects were given a perfectly good hammer and gleefully replied, ‘neat! With this hammer, we can build a tool that can pound in nails.’” — that is THE SINGLE FUNNIEST SENTENCE ever assembled in the history of english language!
Obie Fernandez : Ruby on Rails and More...
“I'm not really much into evangelizing Ruby and Rails much nowadays. You know, since we won, I have to admit that it became boring and besides the point.” :)
Inappropriate "Talk Like a Pirate Day" remarks
“Aaaaaaaar! Home a day early, ye are, husband. This varmint a poor stranger be who lost his clothes.” :)
LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE! [youtube.com]
I just had this exact conversation with my wife. No one understands…
Last Harry Potter leaks online [boingboing.net]
“With the last book, the publisher was so freaked out about ebook piracy that they refused to release an official electronic edition. The result? Fans made their own electronic text in 24 hours. And other fans translated the book into German in 45 hours.”
3D Mailbox - FREE 3-Dimensional Email Software. Bring e-mail to life! (And put spam to death!)
This just ruined my day. I'm going home. Absolutely horrible. Just horrible.
Words to Live By
“Always code as if the person who will maintain your code is a maniac serial killer that knows where you live.”
Philosophy of numbers
“So there you have it — lack of units in programming languages and the war in Iraq have a common cause: the lack of correct philosophy on numbers taught in schools.”
sog’s (Unconventional) Highway Etiquette [redmonk.com]
Beautifully done, sir. This should be required reading before anyone is allowed to hit an onramp.
Does JavaFX Spell The End Of AJAX?
Is anyone actually falling for this crap? “‘The goal is to make it so people never have to see code’, said Gosling.” — Gag Me!
How to make a Ninja Mask with a shirt
This should immediately supercede your present Ninja Mask technique.
09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 [google.com]
“Results 1 – 10 of about 283,000 for 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0” – This is officially the craziest thing I've ever seen on the internet (with the exception of the Hasselhoffian Recursion).
Streisand effect [wikipedia.org]
“Streisand Effect is a category of Internet phenomena in which an attempt to censor or remove a certain piece of information instead backfires, causing the information in question to receive extensive publicity…”
Coprolitic Programming [thecodist.com]
‘The next time you think to sigh, “this code is such a pile of crap” imagine what your grandchildren will say some day when they work on it.’
Translation From PR-Speak to English of Selected Portions of Rails Developer David Heinemeier Hansson’s Response to Alex Payne’s Interview [dive into mark]
Pppkkkeeeewwwww.. The happy universe explodes. This is turning into one hell of a discussion.
The Truth About Lisp
“Paul Graham originally wrote reddit, in lisp, on the back of a napkin while he was waiting for a coffee. it was so powerful that it had to be rewritten in python just so that ordinary computers could understand it.”
Blowing a raspberry [wikipedia.org]
“In the terminology of phonetics, this sound does not appear to have an official name, but might be characterized as a linguolabial trill. It is never used in human language phonemically, but it is widely used across human cultures and by other primates”
Blogger’s Code of Boring Irrelevance
“If I want to publish a picture that shows Ronald McDonald smoking a joint made out of the rain forests, I can.”
have u seen an idea even billGates shouldn't hear Mr.Guido ? please read because it's important.
“also it could be disguised as a cancer research stuff should some disassamble its code. the use-free-computer-time type of thing they do on the net.”
You are kidding arent you?
“Microsoft just spent $9 billion and many years to create Vista, so it does not sound reasonable that some new alternative could just snap into existence overnight like that. It would take billions of dollars and a massive effort to achieve.” :)
A Faster Ruby.
“Well if Ruby developers are so damn productive, why can’t they write a faster ruby?”
ROA Maturity Model
How did we ever get anything done without superfluous quadrants and models. Bring ‘em on. The trick is making something every developer would know is a joke but that could make it past a manager or architect.
How the vi editor would seem if it has been made by Microsoft
“It looks like you are trying to do a regular expression. Do you need some help with that?”
Michael Jackson - Smooth Criminal [youtube.com]
Oh man. This song was not this horribly bad when I was a kid.
Fun with Vista's Speed Recognition [innoq.com]
Press caps locks. Press caps lock. PRESS CAPS LOCK! Press capital I. Delete I. Press capital I. DELETE I SCROLL THIS CONFLICT. DELETE ADULT SCROLLS CONFLICT FOR C … THANK YOU! Delete THINK YOU.
When You Wish Upon a Beard
Wow.I shudder to even observe the brilliance that is _why. There’s an actual Cut-out Adventure Beard here.
How much is inside Ramen noodles? [answered]
Great research like this is what I love most about the internet.
Bill Gates (clearly on crack): "Nowadays, security guys break the Mac every single day."
“Every single day, they come out with a total exploit, your machine can be taken over totally. I dare anybody to do that once a month on the Windows machine.”
Lifecycle of a bad idea [dive into mark]
While not all bad ideas include a PowerPoint presentation, all PowerPoint presentations include at least one bad idea: PowerPoint.
your clever screen name is not clever
“There’s a time and place for a penis decal on your forehead and the Monday morning staff meeting is not it.”
My Life As An RSS Junkie [medialoper.com]
Bob Saget: RSS is not a drug! I used to [expletives deleted] for coke. Other Guy: I saw him! Bob Saget: Now that’s an addiction, man. You ever [expletives deleted] for RSS?
Amos O. Olagunju / St. Cloud State University
This is the “home page” of a professor who teaches web design at St. Cloud State University. Don’t go there.
Jan. 22, 1984: Dawn of the Mac [wired.com]
“But the company’s board of directors balked and ordered the ad withdrawn from its Super Bowl slot. Only the intervention of Steve Wozniak, who said he'd pay for the spot personally if the board refused to air it, saved the day.”
In Which I Think About Java Again, But Only For A Moment
“… but I gave up after optimizing AWT, implementing drag and drop, and trying to make 1,200 pages of crappy APIs do the right thing on the Mac. Then I took a one-week Cocoa training course, and wrote the first prototype of iChat.”
Lines From Alanis Morissette's "Ironic," Modified to Actually Make them Ironic
“A no-smoking sign on your cigarette break… at the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco corporate offices in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.”
New Ipod!!!!! (SNL) [youtube.com]
The original SNL / Steve Jobs skit. This is a classic as far as I'm concerned.
TeleTech / Verizon Exit Interview
Q: Did you learn all you needed to know to be capable of doing the job? A: Yes, bullshitting through the interview provided me with the skills to effectively bullshit to customers…
Everybody LOVES a math joke
“A biologist, a physicist, and a mathematician were sitting in a street café watching the crowd…”
What Mongrel Isn't (Or, Write Your Own Damn Web Server)
“All you have to do is change the internal processing, add 200 more methods to the HTTP parser, serve Bittorrent over Ethernet, and have it save Korean orphans while eating a Mango in the back seat of an El Camino driven by twenty midget clowns.”
The Morning News - MetaFilter in the Ruins
“When the apocalypse comes, when the world ends as we know it, you can bet someone will be updating Metafilter.”
The (Unofficial) Digg Soundboard
Cute. The latest Digg flames all in one place :) Kind of Digg zeitgeist, I suppose.
Proposed Solution To Global Warming
Fix it at the source: “… Thus I propose that we turn off the Sun for roughly 0.2% of each solar day, or two to four minutes every 24 hours.” Brilliant!
CASEBUILDER™ SOA
This is too funny: “… provides you with the verbiage you need to explain SOA to non-technical people and ‘sell’ its long-term strategic benefits.”
demoroniser - correct moronic and gratuitously incompatible Microsoft HTML
“The demoroniser keeps you from looking dumber than a bag of dirt when your Web page is viewed by a user on a non-Microsoft platform.”
Twelve Days
“For n = 12 we perform a total of 364 reps! Thank goodness there aren’t 13 days or we'd have to do 454.”
Whatever Happened To The Zune?
“I have yet to find a women who wants to be squirted with a Zune. I’ve stopped asking.”
Good Math, Bad Math : Nullity - the Nonsense Number
That’s what I'm saying. As soon as I saw this guy talking about auto-pilot software crashing a plane due to division by zero, I thought: 5 / 0 rescue nil wtf are you talking about? We've had exception handling, conditionals, and NaN forever.
Shut the fuck up and write some code???
I have no idea … but I'm digging the Kid and TG references ;)
J2EE SUCKS HUGE DONKEY BALLS.
“Then they spend one day debugging shit that’s gone wrong with Eclipse (or its mangling of the CVS repository, or some ant dependency problem, or)… And meanwhile they whine that 256 megs of RAM isn’t enough to edit a fucking text file (and do NOTHING el
I plan to travel back to the 1400s. Any advice on how to recreate the Internet?
“You know what I love about Reddit? Someone can ask a question like this, and not one comment points out how completely ridiculous it is.”
How We Wish Our SOs Really Talked
“Why would my sister want to borrow someone else’s broom, you sexist ass? My sister is a lawyer for the friggin' ACLU! before tossing her Napa Valley cab in the poor guy’s face.”
Shell script awk csv file
“I could whip you up something in Java that would take 2 minutes to design, 30 minutes to implement, a day to write the deployment descriptor for, and 3 months to get sign off from the app support people at the client site _b”
Man Pops Eye-Balls Out Really Far
“I can pop my eyes out four centimetres each, it is a gift from God, I feel blessed.”
The Worst Analogies Ever Written in a High School Essay
“The whole scene had an eerie, surreal quality, like when you’re on vacation in another city and ‘Jeopardy’ comes on at 7 p.m. instead of 7:30.”
Howard Zinn & Noam Chomsky debate The Lord of the Rings
Unused Audio Commentary By Howard Zinn & Noam Chomsky, Recorded Summer 2002, for The Fellowship of the Ring Platinum Series Extended Edition DVD, Part One
Help Win My Bet
Help a brother out: “if I could make a website to get 2,000,000 hits, she would have a menage a trois (that’s a threesome to you non french-speakers)”
Everyone Hates the Christians
“When I became a convert from Judaism to born-again Christianity after watching The Chronicles of Narnia, I thought things were going to get a lot easier for me…”
Comment of the Day. On "Evidence of the Missing Link Found?"
Evolution is at work. We leave them to themselves and we’ll stick to ourselves, and in another 250,000 years we can eat them as either game or domesticated farm animals. God knows we don’t have to selectively breed them for size.
Male nipples can keep babies calm
Serendipitously appeared during a google images search for “newpaper”.
Bill Gates shouts at Sony CEO that his crappy DRM is less crappy
I miss this Cory Doctorow: “…a stupid DRM standard for suck-ass next-gen DVDs, arguing that Microsoft’s sellout suck-ass next-gen HD-DVDs are better.”
ROBERTSON BLAMES HURRICANE ON CHOICE OF ELLEN DEGENERES TO HOST EMMYS
I don’t even know what to say. Robertson has left reality.
COOKING A POT OF DOG GUMBO
I knew subscribing to the katrina flickr feed would pay off. This is the best picture I've seen yet!
Is your son a computer hacker?
OMFG this is so messed up. I feel so bad for the kid whose parents read this and take it seriously.
Boing Boing's $250,000 Intelligent Design challenge
“We are willing to pay any individual $250,0000 if they can produce empirical evidence which proves that Jesus is not the son of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.”
potter crash
Video of a guy plot-spoiling the latest Harry Potter books to a crowd of many in front of Barnes and Noble.
Jon Stewart's ('84) Commencement Address
“Not everybody can wander around in an alcoholic haze and then at 40 just, you know, decide to be president.”
All your base are belong to us
The original european zero-wing introduction followed by a load of AYBABTU spottings in teh wild..
Get Rich Quick With Blogs
The always insightful James Governor’s with a fist full of insight into insightless topics such t-shirts… weeeeeeee!
Join us now and share the software
As it turn out, Sun Microsystems owns the word “share” and they aren’t sharing it..
Schneier on Security: Disarming Soldiers
“FAA regulation that requires soldiers — all of whom were armed with an arsenal of assault rifles, shotguns and pistols — to surrender pocket knives, nose hair scissors and cigarette lighters.”
Drowning in the koolaid
“Just remember that the next time you use one of the mainstream languages – many of the "features” were designed with the idea in mind that you, the developer, are a moron."
Disco Apache video
It’s kind of amazing that at some time in some place in this very universe this actually took place.
Accomplishments
Wow! I didn’t think this was actually possible. I'm sure I’ll try at some point in my life but I don’t have any dilusions about actually reaching Marc’s level of accomplishment.
Business Week predicts corporate takeover of blogs
BusinessWeek has “Blogs” on cover but they don’t get it. Predicting a massive takeover of the blogosphere by major corporat