sign o' the times: in any new CPU review, I go to the power consumption page first. It's the only interesting part left.

@okkfan old: before cleartype, and certainly before Retina type stuff. Fonts kinda come into their own at uncompromisingly super high res.

some of the PR emails I get are so bad even making fun of them is not worth the effort.

the fallacy fallacy (via @bleroy) http://t.co/eOz2zYL5

also, remember that "what could have been" tends to morph into an elaborate bigger than life fantasy. Versus "tried that, X happened."

when you're dying, you won't regret what you did, but what you chose not to do: http://t.co/Int8nu3Z

I've been getting a bit of "Error 337 (net::ERR_SPDY_PROTOCOL_ERROR): Unknown error." with the latest Chrome final. Among others. Buggy.

one advantage of having twin newborns is that all the screaming is in stereo #notreallyanadvantage

My problem with stack ranking (any form) is that it boils down to "your family is drowning, who to save first?" http://t.co/Egym729w

the average font http://t.co/qC6D3jxd

@codinghorror I learned everything I know about reasonable doubt from Pauly Shore in Jury Duty

Dominos rolled out electric scooters, but got complaints they were too quiet. So they added a soundtrack. http://t.co/OsA8nq2j

I learned everything I know about the sustainability of closed ecosystems from Pauly Shore in Bio-Dome

Looks like TILT is finally available (again) on Netflix! DVD only for now; working on streaming. (Thanks @dbreiland) htt ...

I keep referencing the movie http://t.co/zCBTGKa3 as a touchstone. If you have *any* interest whatsoever, see it (it's on iTunes, too).

I should also mention the scariest thing I've ever done, and the toughest job I've ever taken, is to have children. NB: I am a wuss.

if it isn't a little scary, it's not worth doing. http://t.co/rt7LCGo1

The PHP hammer. This is real, folks. http://t.co/oHBjwQFx

Are you sitting down? I have some bad news for you. http://t.co/fPvArCpL

Although, I guess choosing http://t.co/HQWp9U8S would be a bad idea for your startup. That is true.

uber-ironic article about how naming is hard, ending with Digg as a "good" example: proves that naming is irrelevant. http://t.co/qah0qB8x

on my desktop, Sunspider benchmark, latest browsers: Opera 149ms Safari 143ms chrome 152ms FF 135ms IE 116ms

@codinghorror transform nearly any manual typewriter into a retro-futuristic marvel http://t.co/57B4hQai

in 2007 a great sunspider score was 5.4 seconds. Now I get 150 *milliseconds*. Progress! http://t.co/Zr2XCGSK

laptop does 365ms in plugged-in mode, so 2x faster. I don't think the iPad has a "power saver" mode, heh.

sunspider -- iPad3: 1793ms , Core i3 laptop (on battery) 750ms, Core i7 desktop, 150ms. More range than I expected

Tetris fanfiction. Rule 43 in full effect http://t.co/NPfYCmMN

"..;there is no word for a child's fear, and no ears to hear it if there was a word, and no one to understand it if they heard."

Proof that @codinghorror is right about reading source code: http://t.co/OCBh30FE

This DIY headphone amp is beautiful. http://t.co/H10c7tjk

@codinghorror The <center> *can* hold!

I use HTML to parse Regular Expressions.

Valve Handbook for New Employees http://t.co/3ZM0O5KV via @felipez

Lavatory Self-Portraits in the Flemish Style: http://t.co/fHtaYRsJ

Alan Moore swamp thing on sale for earth day! http://t.co/dLE6MAYv (issues 20-64)

Apple has a serious font embossing addiction. Wtf? You're not the emboss of me! http://t.co/k4BKMDLu

HTTP 420 is a thing. Sigh.

one day I would like @anildash to talk about the final lessons of WordPress vs. Six Apart, e.g. http://t.co/QIVEjOaO

I try to make decisions at the least responsible moment. Did I say least again? I meant last. http://t.co/UMwQXSbr

the cast of characters in any long running discussion forum http://t.co/g0WYOi6h

YDD. Youtube Driven Development.

Magical. Sound. Shower. Time. http://t.co/CkGVuxa1

honestly all the Business of Software stuff absolutely bores me to tears. I just want to build awesome things that matter.

Evernote is so much less impressive once you realized it has cost 200 million dollars to build, and is not built by 2 ...

A handy iPhone case: http://t.co/WHOf9vxQ

Seen at @StackHQ http://t.co/JvCgW9Ux

it amused me that Jobs and Ellison were such good buddies in his bio, when Ellison is super-evil. Friend of the devil! http://t.co/71K99Ynd

Oracle is as evil as they come (possibly eviler) but the intentional end run Google did around Java is not legally defensible IMHO

Read this with your volume way up. It actually play Darth Vader's theme. http://t.co/C2q12iSc

I'm kind of liking RubyMine. Is there any reason I should be filled with fear, uncertainty, and doubt? http://t.co/ZvpnJGpn

Things I Wished I Learned in Engineering School http://t.co/KAppRPqE

still outstanding after 10 years: the Fight Club Soundtrack. http://t.co/5khxgSdO

Remind me again why people live in Australia? http://t.co/gAsLfDBv Is it because the spawns give the best XP?

execute JavaScript in a JavaScript sandbox, kudos @jterrace http://t.co/ZoJNA9Cc

just watched part of that new CGI Tintin movie. Uber creepy, like a season ticket to the uncanny valley. http://t.co/PNvIqA2n

I'll admit, even as a dude, it's fun to dress up the babbies in insane outfits. http://t.co/j1C5rlMv

"Neither of those languages ... have any ... developer expertise" funny, neither does Java http://t.co/OwNtcVxr

note that you can also use two factor auth in PayPal with the Verisign smartphone app (and I do) https://t.co/ib25LZ62

why *did* Google have to choose Java for Android? Why not their own language(s), Dart or Go?

Oh who cares? (72% chance of applying to the message just below this one)

white men can't jump. http://t.co/XoWJcd8W

how to begin: start anywhere.

Wikipedia: so entrenched, even Paul Graham wasn't able to dream up "Displace Wikipedia" in his FASI. http://t.co/esKMALHe

@codinghorror Alter Ego: best game ever made. I ported it to the web http://t.co/snJqKwDr and started @choiceofgames to make ...

Since I wrote this, my cable modem downstream increased 2x, upstream 5x (300kb/sec). http://t.co/b0kddxVJ

So attaching Facebook identities to comments is the final solution to the GIFT? Perhaps not.. http://t.co/lVqYzQyS

The Game of Go: a Programmer's Perspective http://t.co/7BHlomFK

Is it just me or does David Crane look just a little bit *too* happy about his games here? http://t.co/dWwjA7AH

all these years later, I'm still playing Alter Ego. http://t.co/STUnwxWy

Say semicolon one more time.

A definitive guide for parsing numbers with regular expressions. http://t.co/ZIjUv4b3

iPhone app idea: RMS resources, links, background for those inviting/hosting Richard Stallman at their local conference.

"Very few teams asking for money via Kickstarter have extensive, or even moderate, knowledge of business" http://t.co/0aN3US3V

The Annals of Latawnya, the Naughty Horse http://t.co/pq2ix0c4 see also http://t.co/HYEJAGMY (related is .. interesting)

"consumers don't want simplified $499 computing devices for surfing the Web" http://t.co/gjsvVmCI

inventor of X-Ray Specs and Sea Monkeys (among others) was a Jewish white supremacist. Go fig. http://t.co/6H9E1PaA

I'm sorry poodles. I'm so soo sorry. http://t.co/1gmCXnxF

Coconut Crab. Totally not going to jump on your face. Nope. Not at all. http://t.co/Mkf1ejXF

"..you know what I'm craving? A little perspective. That's it. I'd like some fresh, clear, well seasoned perspective." http://t.co/Zrjj2yvx

This is the telephoto zoom lens they use to take pictures of all the other telephoto zoom lenses. http://t.co/JJ9LTjHu

"[Shatner] threw judo chops so slowly against space monsters that he was already on T.J. Hooker by the time they connected"

Pen & Pixel http://t.co/5DgGkR1u

Two guys rowed across *the Atlantic Ocean* in 1896? WAT http://t.co/e7UULkaz

see you next Wednesday. http://t.co/3pVdWXtq

WANT. “@grantimahara: A fan sent this to @KariByron. I... I don't even... #science #mylittlepony http://t.co/s2xCL0n7”

That's it, I now have a wondrous paranoid password and painful 2 steps authentication on gmail, thanks to @codinghorror. ...

oh, Twitter and the random unfollows. Today's discovered victim was @kevindente

Make Your Email Hacker Proof. DO IT NOW http://t.co/Jvb3E7Kz

It's out! Add SPDY support to your Apache server with mod_spdy http://t.co/yqw62w83

is it really this hard to pull voicemail files off an iPhone? http://t.co/eerpLEYW

@codinghorror I was doing Ruby with Padrino and this formula worked. I now use it for Node and am quite happy. http://t.co ...

because I hate myself, I want to code Ruby in Windows. Recommend me a strategery!

just in beta! http://t.co/3kMUj1Xj for all your Dunder Mifflin and Wernham Hogg workplace questions.

Very proud of Twitter for their new defense-only patent agreement. Hope this finds wide adoption in the industry. http:/ ...

"I would like to express gratitude ... to those who created me." http://t.co/6eLpLIeK

some helpful advice I received today from @rockhardawesome http://t.co/QbtAEU2H

People forget how expensive the Apple II and early Macs really were. http://t.co/DF9v4LL9

"If you cannot - in the long run - tell everyone what you have been doing, your doing has been worthless."

I just realized that the guy who did http://t.co/lAKsJosY is the guy behind the awesome http://t.co/NcqwcDzR blog, duh

unicode see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil http://t.co/ffWhiQC4