November 2007
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Nov 30th
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ListenHere’s something I made while experimenting...
Nov 30th
Scotland pays $250,000 for new Slogan: "Welcome to... →
Nov 29th
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“Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like. People...”
– Steve Jobs (via marco)
Nov 29th
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Python: Stupid Lambda Tricks →
Nov 28th
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English grammar FAQ →
nikography: Lots of ‘detailed discussions’ on very specific elements of the language.
Nov 27th
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Signs you're a crappy programmer (and don't know... →
— jessta — marco This is an excellent read. And a worrying one too — it’s an accurate description of the ideologies behind my computer science course, sadly.
Nov 27th
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Nov 26th
nostrich.net: Three Rituals and an Arrest →
On a British night out, there are three rituals to satisfy: get drunk, get a kebab, and pee somewhere you shouldn’t. An anecdote about humiliation with a funny twist.
Nov 24th
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More fun with grep
$ grep -hoiRE 'defia?n[aei]n?t[aei]ly' irclogs/ \ | grep -vi definitely | sort | uniq definately Definately DEFINATELY definetely definintely Definintely (Geek level: Pending)
Nov 24th
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Wikipedia: Paraprosdokian →
A paraprosdokian is a figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected in a way that causes the reader or listener to reframe the first part. Some examples: “I’ve had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn’t it.” — Groucho Marx “I haven’t slept for ten days, because that would be too long.” — Mitch...
Nov 23rd
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Japanese Guys Playing Soccer With Binoculars On... →
Nov 22nd
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Nov 22nd
Ripple Effect Generator →
Here’s one I prepared earlier (377 KB)
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Know your World? →
— livejamie I can see this becoming horribly addictive. I got 134,741 on my first try; not good enough!
Nov 19th
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Nov 19th
makebonohistory.org →
Formed in 2005, this campaign has clear objectives - to remove Bono from the public-eye and restore a sense of dignity to mankind. — bullshit
Nov 19th
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Nov 18th
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Dictator: On-screen reading made easy →
The problem with [electronic] texts is that reading them on-screen the conventional way is a drag and printing them out is time-consuming, costly, and wasteful. Dictator provides an alternative approach in which words are displayed consecutively in the same place at a user-controllable rate. This method prevents unconscious re-reading of adjacent text and decreases the tendency of the reader to...
Nov 18th
“I spent this past Sunday coding in VB. Ended up around 2800 lines. That night, I...”
– Corbomite (#xkcd quote database)
Nov 18th
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Nov 17th
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Nov 17th
Wikipedia: ISO 3103 →
The ISO standard for brewing tea.
Nov 17th
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Nov 17th
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“In 2002, Georgia Tech student radio station WREK 91.1 FM aired the Merzbox in...”
– Merzbox, 50 CDs worth of music by the legendary Japanese noise musician Merzbow.
Nov 17th
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Crayon Physics Deluxe →
“this is amazing! your drawings become animated physical objects, ‘solve puzzles with creative uses of physics’.” — nikography
Nov 17th
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Gif Collectif (a collaborative visual public... →
Nov 17th
Nov 16th
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“3,000 friends, and as far as I can tell it’s still just a shitty version...”
– Jesse Thorn, via Your Mom Not Mine (though mine would probably agree).
Nov 16th
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BBC: Saudi gang-rape victim is jailed →
Seven men were found guilty of the rape and sentenced to prison terms ranging from just under a year to five years. But the victim was also punished for violating Saudi Arabia’s laws on segregation that forbid unrelated men and women from associating with each other. She was initially sentenced to 90 lashes for being in the car of a strange man. On appeal, the Arab News reported that the...
Nov 16th
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“Searching for song lyrics is a journey to the dirtiest, skankiest slums of the...”
– Jeff Atwood (Twitter)
Nov 16th
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Agreed.
cubicle17: I feel accomplished today - I snuck an ASCII Banner comment into our codebase.
cubicle17: I think every codebase needs a huge ASCII banner identifying where I put in a horrible nasty hack.
Nov 16th
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kiffer: ARGH! next door is drilling!
fibrosis: that's a pretty advanced door
Nov 16th
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Nov 15th
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qdb.us/110372
notice how life and fail have same letters?
Nov 15th
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Nov 15th
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Nov 14th
PHP UTF-8 cheatsheet →
Ensure UTF-8 support in PHP. — montoya
Nov 14th
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Things You'd Never Know Without Google
the golden ratio * googol Euro = 2.60255202 × 10^102 Japanese yen
Nov 14th
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Nov 13th
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Slate Magazine: Heavy metal environmentalists. →
Nov 13th
“I hardly ever drop a subscription because of lack of posting. I would prefer...”
– Shawn Blanc on RSS burnout — marco
Nov 13th
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