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Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
it is criminal how poorly the clipboard is supported out of the box in .. well, basically every OS

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
ok so boxee is basically a nice 10-foot-UI wrapper around existing dedicated video web properties? http://www.boxee.tv/
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skippykawakami
@skippykawakami
@codinghorror Same thing happened to me. Turns out I had an "inflamed Sponsored Link". Doc prescribed 20mg of HuffPo

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
I wish I was kidding about the last tweet. I really do. To be fair, it was a common and minor medical problem ... but still.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
went to the doctor recently (nothing serious) and he diagnosed me using Google on the in-room terminal. :p THX DR GOOGLES!

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
our Apple site got an "Iron Like an OSX Lion in Zion" minor redesign http://apple.stackexchange.com/

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Hearing reports of bugs in voting on http://t.co/Jpyh9yj http://t.co/3xt489c http://t.co/grX7tdy -- anyone repro?
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spolsky
@spolsky
Do new candidates mine coal during their interview? http://joeloncoal.com/

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
@chrismckee works fine for me, perhaps clear your browser cache?

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"Hey Malkovich, think fast!" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-lSUz0Hn10
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jongalloway
@jongalloway
@codinghorror Safari-textifier bookmarklet for you: javascript:$('*').css({'font-weight': 'bold', 'text-shadow': '0px 1 ...
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dansdata
@dansdata
Was there any Amiga user who DIDN'T at least once play an executable as a sound file? http://bit.ly/eYlweV

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
every time you emboss a font in HTML, I kill a puppy. I'm just saying.
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BadAstronomer
@BadAstronomer
Look at your man. Now back to me. I'm in a FAQ! http://is.gd/JKcSfH #skepticism

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
IMNSHO, nobody does what we do -- open, self-governing expert Q&A communities -- better than we do. But I'm biased. And a little obsessed.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
@cdrassoc I don't agree with the way Jobs randomly answers email, but I have to defend him as simply *direct*, not rude or confrontational

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
I am mystified why some people think being rude and confrontational is a "strategy". For being ignored, perhaps.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
I find it profoundly disturbing that epic hacker @jwz greenlit *facebook-only* comments on the DNA Lounge blog. :( http://goo.gl/wvSzZ

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
great blog by a http://cooking.stackexchange.com user -- http://richcooks.blogspot.com/

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
adding text-shadow may work on Macs with "all bold all the time" font rendering, but looks hideous on Windows http://goo.gl/F4E95
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chriscoyier
@chriscoyier
My mom made me google if Forest Whitaker has a lazy eye and found this amazing page: http://t.co/vTm4r1V
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NathanBowers
@NathanBowers
750words.com also has the least noisy OpenID-ish login system I've seen. Well done @busterbenson. http://img.ly/3jP8

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
eBay / craigslist are flea markets. They're always a little sketchy by nature; that's how neighborhood capitalism works..

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
unsubsidized cost of iPhone 3gs 16gb: $599. How much I sold my used *excellent* condition iPhone 3gs for on eBay: $320. That's 53%

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
lick the rainbow http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDlaJlb1ezg

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Stack Overflow Careers 2.0 now supports GitHub http://goo.gl/SUoVE

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
can we help @timbray out with his Apple question? http://apple.stackexchange.com/q/11100/101

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"Stack Overflow is a great site and a fantastic business." http://goo.gl/AnvAN thanks @timoreilly !

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
IE9 is not bad at all. Which release of Windows Phone 7 will use the IE9 code base instead of craptacular IE8?
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samsaffron
@samsaffron
Blogged: "How I learned to stop worrying and write my own ORM" http://goo.gl/5rXUj

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
The ultimate intersection? Sheeiiiiiiiiiiiiit. #wire http://t.co/9zcK3KV

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Yes I know chrome dev is on some insanely high version. My point is, don't file bugs on us with a bleeding edge browser.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"I'm using Chrome 12 and your site is broken?" Really? Are you from TEH FUTARRRRR?

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Stack Exchange's "Windows Vista" feature moment http://goo.gl/rxAJJ

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
apologies in advance, but this is a painful truth you need to hear: the top 10 rap songs white people love. http://goo.gl/9Wg4W
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amazonmp3
@amazonmp3
Get 5GB #clouddrive storage FREE. Buy any album, get automatically upgraded to 20GB. Details: http://amzn.to/hsndh4 #clo ...
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marcgravell
@marcgravell
Hope to release the #stackoverflow redis bindings onto google-code soon; we re-wrote @migueldeicaza 's excellent bindin ...

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
does anyone have info on the "I would like to know if you sell {random product}, let me know models, size, pricing" email spams?

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
there doesn't seem to be a "perfect" wireless home theater PC keyboard/mouse out there yet http://goo.gl/OXg0F
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asymco
@asymco
PC vs. post-PC: Android has 12million lines of code. Windows 95 had 15 million, 98 had 18, Windows 2000 29, XP 45, OS X (v10 ...

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
so many things not to care about, so little time!
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splattne
@splattne
Finally available in all major browser versions: text-align: centaur; http://textaligncentaur.com/ (via @mikkohypponen)

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
bootstrapping: using feedback from ui.stackexchange to improve Stack Exchange's UI http://ui.stackexchange.com/q/4287/6

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
8-bit dark side of the moon http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euLdKW_Db1k

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"I could not ride that... without the matching sweater." http://www.flickr.com/photos/extremecraft/132463341/

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
surprisingly, a google image search for "3d anaglyph" is sort of nsfw, right on page 1
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anildash
@anildash
Three Mile Island was 32 years ago. I was 10 miles away. So here's facts on radiation, beyond the XKCD graphic: http://2.d ...

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"EF is twice as slow as linq 2 sql ... looks like the team at MS have been busy de-optimising" lol

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
urg. http://ur.ly is down -- anyone know status, or a place to get status?

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Revisiting the Home Theater PC http://goo.gl/vXTEN
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cw
@cw
Humility lead to undeserved anonymity. Thank you, Mr. Paul Baran. (Possibly the original pioneer of the Internet.) RIP. http://b ...

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
@apgwoz @j2labs @anildash even anonymous users can edit anything now, go for it! http://goo.gl/moGTN
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mrdenny
@mrdenny
MySQL.com compromised via SQL Injection attack. http://bit.ly/foQI7v

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
I can barely watch video that isn't 720p any more #firstworldproblems

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Vault-Tec Industries sales skyrocket from 20% to 1,000% http://goo.gl/3szQR

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
pushing one man's love of George Michael's"Careless Whisper" to the limit. And beyond. http://goo.gl/RuHtM

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
bug reports I tend to act on: 1) those that are actively killing small children 2) those that amuse and entertain me

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
who said bug reports can't be AWESOME??? http://goo.gl/0u1bQ

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
digging the new HTPC build, very speedy and kill-a-watt says 25w idle average, 30-45w active http://goo.gl/zQp3S
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spolsky
@spolsky
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bramcohen
@bramcohen
"90% of coding is debugging. The other 10% is writing bugs"

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"You have to be in the right physical position to comfortably use a tablet." http://goo.gl/VP4Ig

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
The Ig Nobel in medicine was in 2009 awarded to Donald L. Unger for research around cracking his knuckle. http://goo.gl/QslWV

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
are you a member of the http://superuser.com community? Like free hardware and writing? see http://goo.gl/ECCCw
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waxpancake
@waxpancake
I want to throw a party just so I can project this 1976 Shatner-narrated film about microchips on the walls: http://bit. ...

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
look, if Facebook and Wikipedia can build generational empires on PHP, quality of tooling is *utterly irrelevant*. It just is.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
yeah, MySpace was *totally* killed by LA and Microsoft, not just plain old INCOMPETENCE. http://goo.gl/B14x9

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
“A few days ago, I read that a samurai philosophy is to refrain until you can respond instead of reacting. I must work on that.”

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
@howtogeek that's OK. I'm a terrible boss!

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"I wish I could hire all of you." #stackexchange http://goo.gl/u5brS

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
MY HAND IS A DOLPHIN!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzfQwXEqYaI

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
I was gonna work from home making $978 in easy cash from Google but NOOOOooo! http://goo.gl/oxEB8
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jongalloway
@jongalloway
Herding Code 108: Jin Yang and Nathan Bowers on Web Design: This episode of Herding Code continues ... http://bit.ly/fO ...
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Nick_Craver
@Nick_Craver
best #stackexchange 404/error yet, the #android site: http://android.stackexchange.com/error

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
@howtogeek congrats!!

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Q&A for enthusiasts and power users of the Android operating system, now public http://android.stackexchange.com/

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
I'm a bit burned out on Yahtzee's review style but his Kirby's Epic Yarn review was .. epic http://goo.gl/ejYqx
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atlaz
@atlaz
@codinghorror Firefox is for when you absolutely, positively MUST have a memory leak

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Wikipedia may incorrectly bless some bad URL construction, but wolfram alpha commits mass genocide against hyperlinks

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
I am wayyyy too cranky to be a public figure, even in the 15ns of fame internet sense of the word.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"Reliable tag cartography is essential to navigation and exploration in any expert Q&A community" http://goo.gl/7amuZ
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linuxlizard
@linuxlizard
@codinghorror I still use Firefox because I can't disable gif animations in Chrome.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
can someone point me to a blog post explaining why Firebug is so much better than Chrome's built in equivalent? Not getting it.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Chrome even out Greasemonkeys Firefox, because Chrome has Greasemonkey support *built into the executable*.
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anildash
@anildash
Seems like Skype and iTunes are battling it out for the RealPlayer Memorial Award for Most Annoying Desktop Client App.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
this is the least excited I have ever been for a Firefox release, ever. I struggle to see what Firefox is for when Chrome does it all better

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
I remember reading Groening's "childhood is hell" strip about this years ago, but he was too optimistic -- the fun begins BEFORE dawn.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
I wish there was some way to convince @rockhardawesome not to wake up every day before 6am -- need lazy teenage years!

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
kudos to #stackexchange team / sysadmins, lots of great performance work in the last 5 days. PERFORMANCE = FEATURE

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
apologies in advance for the heresy, but I tire of XKCD.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
the parenting Q&A site proposal is very close to reaching beta http://goo.gl/5Mj9h

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
What is the end of 2001: A Space Odyssey about? http://t.co/U1pvnt4

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
A collection of first world problems, updated daily http://whitewhine.com/ (via @jacksonh and @kevindente)

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
oh software patents, is there no limit to how much you can suck?

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
proposed Q&A site for bioinformatics, I need @betsyphd to support this one! http://goo.gl/uwh6N

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
electronics design Q&A -- now public http://electronics.stackexchange.com/

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
some interesting #stackoverflow tag clouds if you are into that sort of thing http://goo.gl/e6ZkV