recommend me a new grown-up cordless drill. NB: anyone who replies with a picture of a Big Daddy will be unfollowed.

"an upcoming intellectual thriller about four mathematicians solving the P versus NP problem" omg loool http://t.co/6Ni2F7k5

"it's a movie about white guys sitting in a room staring at computers, what's not to like?"

Hooray, today’s Kindle app update makes children’s books (that is, mostly pictures) actually work!

A game theoretic approach to the toilet seat problem http://t.co/h0pLAzmw

Rocksmith vs. Rock Band 3: The Pro Guitar Showdown http://t.co/XWhpktM1

are there any self-installable Ruby apps which update as seamlessly as WordPress does?

@mattgreenrocks @mstum pointless IMNSHO, unless you plan to do anything other than listen (remix)

I can go on, but I'm not going to bother. VBR is a whole new world, and 192kbps is a *lot*, even with cbr.

"we expected .. test subjects would be able to tell a 192kbps MP3 from the original. Shockingly, this wasn't so" http://t.co/xkJmYNvj

"It’s downright humiliating .. we were unable to tell the difference between an uncompressed track and 160Kb/s vbr" http://t.co/mUEQrWvL

unless you are a dog, the science says you won't be able to hear any difference between quality 192kbps VBR MP3 and lossless.

@dozba battlefield 3 homey

@codinghorror the kids call this 'lame preset -V2' in the streets

my opinion hasn't changed on song encoding: 192kbps (avg) VBR MP3 is your best bang for the byte by far http://t.co/a8KRdb4b

getting rid of all our physical CDs. Paying nephew $1/cd to rip them using Exact Audio Copy as a summer gig.

"There is no loop"

If you play any game where the word “farm” comes up often, you should seriously consider where your time is going #diablo3

New blog post: Not as SPDY as you thought… http://t.co/R2BCsKGK #webperf #spdy

Android 4.0 is WAYYY better than Kindle stock. Highly recommended. For one thing, *smooth scrolling*, what a miracle.

I need to document this Kindle Fire Android 4.0 root+update on http://t.co/omY4lTXo because it was *painful*

"it will also recognize http://t.co/3wty3KXF, google.aol, and 'THEGOOGLE' typed into a Word document" http://t.co/TmWBTwHv

"my parents get to Google by Googling for it" this is awesome (via @kevindente)

is it worth rooting the Kindle Fire to install the latest Android on it? Or is the hardware just too weak in an iPad 3 world?

will the Internet move away from the dominance of .com extensions? I'm skeptical. http://t.co/ncy1ABgb

"Content" is the utility meat slurry of the internet. Press it, shape it, brand it, stick some ads on it - baby, you got ...

The Silencing of Maya:A new twist in a patent lawsuit brings her closer to returning to silence. http://t.co/broC ...

“E3 is the industry’s premier convention for manufacturers and sellers of buggy whips, bridles, and harnesses.”

So, this is what happens when developers don't remove their test data… http://t.co/FjcQjId1

The Box O' Truth is like the original Mythbusters for guns. http://t.co/1UYhupTb

A dingo did eat her baby after all! I know Meryl Streep will be relieved. http://t.co/x3J0p4nZ

BearLove Good. Cancer Bad. http://t.co/Xdh3qOUp

surely @marcoarment *cannot* be surprised that today's Apple /// is on its way out. http://t.co/anGEabLn

have an iPad? Want to read Stack Exchange Q&A on it? Check out StackReader http://t.co/JPyIlAW8

Thing 1 and Thing 2 http://t.co/jad3m1WY

deeply disappointed no retina on airs, but iOS 6 looks great and disruptive, even supported on 3GS (!)

$2199 is like 4.4 iPads, man

no retina air, no sale. Core i7, Nvidia graphics, 15" is just overkill. If I want that much power, I'll use a desktop.

"I looked up the corporate tax rate in Germany and it turns out to be 15%, the same as China's" http://t.co/N3pUPvtU

sometimes I wonder if Bob Seger ever made it to Katmandu.

I say this to myself every night. http://t.co/CQgVsi1s

wow, there are yellow-icon promoted "who to follow" entries on the http://t.co/qRlegRzD sidebar? Super tacky.

Everyone should have at least 1 child. Nothing captures the sublime, continued absurdity of human existence better. Also, the hugs are nice.

Unreal interview "When my son gets home from school, he needs a pick-up with calories and great taste." http://t.co/y ...

I find it odd that Android continues to grow when I still find the iPhone’s iOS to be a more pleasant operating system: http://t.co/1H1ZWjnk

The Macroeconomics of Chinese kleptocracy http://t.co/x4g0qjSi

A meeting with @theladybabies . Present. http://t.co/d2WqWvUT

finally native PDF and ISO image support, much better taskman, much better start menu, vastly improved explorer. Digging Windows 8.

this child psychopath story chills to the bone http://t.co/XSgVCtoQ

Go buy yourself a nice chair. You've earned it. http://t.co/xDYYMWa7

I don't understand online ad optimization. Don't all those roads lead to the same place? http://t.co/2oCpAvMt

Just finished Doom3 Source Code Review: http://t.co/t8e9k81e

New secret project is looking amazing. Of course I can't talk about it. Whoops.

A deep love for Pepsi Max. Just another thing Karl Lagerfeld & @codinghorror have in common. http://t.co/kfQZRKRg

The Doom Comic, I always forget how nuts this was (from the Doom box set) http://t.co/zkDNOWwz

@dozba GO FOR BALLMER PEAK

The court added that, “this is an obvious case of fair use.” http://t.co/J9c0YyBp

the best of Hall & Oates for $2.99? Yes please! http://t.co/krUE8lbC Also, view this http://t.co/4UtkXxKq

"Do something that you're bad at. Enjoy it anyway. Maybe get good at it, if you want."

best Nickelback concert listing ever: http://t.co/OdL3uE4n

One of GitHub's biggest advantages over other employers is their commitment to remote employees. This should not be und ...

"My baby's got rabies, not gonorrhea, syphillis or scabies." http://t.co/sbc9QyqU I hope today's kids are growing up with Dr. Demento, too.

I think this is why Android is doing "better" than it should, because apps (outside of gaming) aren't that important vs web/email

lately I've been deleting just about every specialized app from my iPhone because I hardly ever use them.

maybe I'm a freak, but outside of gaming, I don't really care about apps on my phone. Having great web + email is nearly everything.

there's .. quite a bit of a gap between Ye Olde 2010 Readability.js code and the current Readability server-side code http://t.co/WfHwvjIk

so @rockhardawesome is crazy obsessively into.. Nightwing. Yes, Nightwing. #thatsmyboy http://t.co/h0EsipIN

@codinghorror if you read scifi/fantasy @tordotcom is now doing NO drm ebooks! First big fiction pub to do this afaik http:/ ...

"no meeting should ever be more than an hour, under penalty of death" http://t.co/US1xY2Jl

GitHub for Windows is really slick! Well done @haacked @aroben @timothyclem @cameronmcefee @xpaulbettsx http://t.co/vd38qICZ

Do you ever do something, and then think to yourself: That's So Raven? https://t.co/oHaziZZd

something else to add to @nathanbowers xmas list, the mouse with built-in fan. http://t.co/rEUkqBRk

Proud to reassure my users that Pinboard passwords are not only hashed and salted, but pan-seared and dusted with a saffro ...

if you have clever AND TESTED ideas for detecting WordPress URLs, put them here: http://t.co/XVSjI5fk

the "principle of least surprise" is almost always misused as "surprising to just me." Maybe you're just jumpy, man.

is there any way to detect "hey, this is a WordPress blog URL" other than a full-blown HTTP GET? HEAD maybe?

Don't Mess With (Textbooks in) Texas! http://t.co/nxqpX72b

@_jkk_ it doesn't matter, you're asking the wrong question. Devices should rarely, if ever, be "off". Laptops / tablets are the future.

@_jkk_ I close the lid to turn it off. How do you "turn off" your iPad?

the Windows 8 haters are, IMHO, crazy. This is the best new Microsoft UI I've used since Windows 95. I really dig it.

gonna get my Windows 8 on, using a spare laptop. I loves me some Fitt's Law.

"I am Zangief! I am bad guy!" Wreck-It Ralph looks so awesome http://t.co/3aJYEJmW

I want to hear the political opinions of people I went to grade school with and see photos of their infants. WHERE IS A ...

“No perfect solution exists, therefore your proposed improvements are useless! I say good day to you sir. GOOD DAY!”

“We were curious what would happen to our share price if our company did something incredibly stupid”

Your bank is insured, right? My shared gmail auth is insured, too, with two factor auth. Boom! http://t.co/JvaZ6xBp

The “google could leak hashes” argument: your bank may be robbed. But the odds favor google over Joe’s House of Hashed Password storage.

Logging in with gmail / twitter / facebook / oauth means you can never leak password hashes like LinkedIn did. http://t.co/1n6Gdzb8

btw after getting the list of @linkedin hashes and hashing my old pwd with no salt there is a match for the hash in t ...

Samsung invests $500M in Linux Foundation to battle iOS: http://t.co/t2WhTRiP

I love my kids, but if there was a magical "fast forward to age 4" button I'd be sorely temped. At least for the 2nd and 3rd ones.

@codinghorror http://t.co/WQHaE836 and 301works

I just joked that URL shorteners should creative commons their URL databases and realized, uh, they actually should

"Graphic designers must keep our hoodies zipped tight along with our values" http://t.co/VNAybfje

OH: Airtime? It's like chatroulette without the cocks.

"We should no sooner have RSS icons than we have HTTP icons"

2 factor auth is good as @codinghorror says: http://t.co/WASWh8o0 but it isn't bullet proof as happened to @cloudflare h ...

Max Payne 3 was pretty great, easily the best of the series. Excellent writing. Wild fluctuations in difficulty though.

"Since I am sure you have total Pantone recall like myself, close your eyes and picture this: Pantone 167"

Nominations are open for new Stack Overflow moderators http://t.co/NAdseUSn *cough* @BradLarson *cough*