November 2009
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Improving the YouTube Player →
Matthew Buchanan whipped up some jQuery code to make YouTube videos on your tumblelog look awesome.
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Wikipedia category: Living people →
“Oh god there are less than half a million people left!” — pat
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Wikibooks: Icelandic →
Icelandic is one of the most unchanged and purest languages in the world. It is said that a speaker of Icelandic would be able to talk with a Viking hundreds of years ago without any difficulty.
My Favourite Liar →
“Now I know some of you have already heard of me, but for the benefit of those who are unfamiliar, let me explain how I teach. Between today until the class right before finals, it is my intention to work into each of my lectures … one lie. Your job, as students, among other things, is to try and catch me in the Lie of the Day.”
And thus began our ten-week course…
“If you need it, there is more than enough reason to build it.”
– Build an Application (Even if it Already Exists)
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“Here’s where I go against the [reddit] crowd and say that I’m not a...”
– Ryan North, aka Dinosaur Comics Guy
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“Avoid using ‘decimate’ as someone will pipe up about it meaning...”
– Fake AP Stylebook
The 50 most interesting articles on Wikipedia →
mrgan:
I just Instapapered many, many of these.
merlin:
If there were a page that best epitomized why I LOVE lists of links (and why I viscerally HATE the way webcocks have turbo-shat on the genre), this would be Exhibit A.
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“I propose to bring a bill into Parliament to deprive an author who publishes a...”
– Lord John Campbell, quoted in the index of Schott’s Original Miscellany.
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Names for tuples of specific length
From Wikipedia:
0: empty tuple
1: single / singleton
2: pair/doublet
3: triple/triplet
4: quadruple
5: quintuple / pentuple
6: sextuple / hextuple
7: septuple
8: octuple
9: nonuple
10: decuple
11: undecuple / hendecuple
12: duodecuple
100: centuple
You’re welcome.
Why is Menzies pronounced Mingis? →
All about the peculiar Middle English letter Ȝ (yogh). Bearing the title in mind, here’s a fun limerick from the same article:
A lively young damsel named Menzies
Inquired: “Do you know what this thenzies?”
Her aunt, with a gasp,
Replied: “It’s a wasp,
And you’re holding the end where the stenzies.”
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Electric Wizard – Dunwich
From Witchcult Today:...
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Today I Learned…
The username of a tumblelog is included in the HTTP headers.
$ curl -I http://found.boxofjunk.ws/ | grep User:
X-Tumblr-User: inky
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WatchA beard to end all beards
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link pls
nstrich: if there is no link, did it really happen?
nstrich: a koan for the internet generation
“It’s impossible to say what apocalyptic event might separate 21st-century...”
– How can we communicate the dangers of nuclear waste to future civilizations? (via m1k3y) 