April 2008
30 posts
what is the antonym of schadenfreude?
“shedenfreude - The delight of owning a ramshackle construction on an allotment....”
– pseudodictionary - the dictionary for words that wouldn’t make it into a real dictionary :: v2.0
Forget Miley Cyrus. Check out Disney's Chinese... →
Give the internets 6 months and I bet mouse hand paysites will be everwhwere…
Unit Testing Guidelines →
This is one of the best primer on unit testing I have seen
Why I Bake
I bake because:
It relaxes me
The pain can be so bad I can’t focus on anything else
I am good at it
I need to feel productive
I don’t want to think about how bad my motor control is
Because I make yummy things
I have lost so much to this illness it is nice to gain something
It makes me happy
Pharyngula: Inappropriate iconography →
You’d think they would have noticed…
Amateur Hour Over At Twitter? →
Note to self: never piss off Arrington. I frankly don’t get the level of — what I can only characterize as — anger he has towards Cook. Especially without any knowlege of what Cook has or has not done.
List of Rubik's Cube software - Wikipedia, the... →
I am not sure the world needed this list
"Bibleman" vs. a New York Jew →
There is so much objectionable in that one clip alone that I don’t even know where to start. If there is a hell then, I am fairly sure that this is enough to earn Willie Aames a spot. The twist of the knife is that this is the kind of thing the people who complain about the “culture wars” think is good and wholesom.
Points for calling him “biblemn…”
Deathwatch: Ex-Yahoo Russell Beattie blames... →
I’ve never had anyone I know savaged on ValleyWag before. I don’t know how I feel about that…
iPhone web app performance →
I just discovered Niall Kennedy’s blog, and my goodness is the man thorough…
X-RATED - Adult movie posters of the 60s and 70s →
Probably not safe for work, but most of them are amazingly tame. A look at a time when they had to be more externally subtle
First Ladies Who Rock: Happy Birthday, Betty Ford! →
“She told McCall’s magazine that the only thing she’d never been asked was how often she had sex with her husband. “And if they’d asked me that I would have told them, ‘As often as possible.’”“
BBC NEWS | Daily caffeine 'protects brain' →
Please let this be true… please?
“Maraschino. You know, as in cherry.”
– AF
“There is scarcely anything in the world that some man cannot make a little...”
– John Ruskin
Working the stats...
There is at least one murder per episode of CSI:Miami, and sometimes more than that. To be conservative call it 1.25 per episode. There are 22 episodes per year, so that works out to 27.5 murders per season (minimum). According to this there were 77 murders in Miami in 2006. So in one season we get to see 36.7% of all the murders.
Somehow I have a hard time believe that all of them were...
Sun Labs Lively Kernel →
One of the coolest things I have seen in a while. A research project to make a squeak/smalltalk like environment out of Javascript+SVG+XHTML
“CSI:Miami has clearly heard of subtext, but wants no part of it”
