"Everyone should be required to read all 575 pages of this thread!"

VimGolf! http://goo.gl/a5VBP

I'm not a big iDevice fan, but I *love* the way it has forced video codecs to converge on h.264 and "plays on iDevices" in practice

the sad man's Kama Sutra http://i.imgur.com/PaiOE.png

@dozba every time you mention "at eBay" I hear a mental clock ticking

That's All, Folks! http://goo.gl/TO5OW

"When you give every website a password -- statistically speaking, you're screwed." http://goo.gl/LvHzr

http://youtu.be/JtGp8Sha_mA - table versus "car"

Polar Bears 1, Spy Cameras 0. Via (@psaffo) http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12070732

Every different site has a different set of password rules. So lame. Kill them all! http://goo.gl/VgnOO

Nirvana's seminal album Nevermind is only $4 today http://www.amazon.com/Nevermind/dp/B000V698DI

Best Buy sells a guy Fender Squier guitar demo unit 4 months early. Good one. http://goo.gl/4eKSk

Razzles prove that you can't design for two very different use cases: not great as gum, not great as candy either

I wish the iPhone had a "pro mode" where you could turn off animations. After the 1000th time, I get it, just go faster!

If you're a Stack Overflow/Serverfault/Superuser/Programming SE user, take the annual survey (5 min.): http://j.mp/f6lbEf

"Every age thinks it's the modern age, but this one really is."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Chu and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Famous_Bushman welcome to San Fran!

Enjoy your holidays. But remember: the Wheel of Blame awaits.

Thanks for the birthday wishes! An old timey birthday! http://yfrog.com/h79k6zj

lol, best christmas gift trolling ever http://i.imgur.com/LfdS2.jpg (via reddit)

Holiday Carnage on vimeo http://vimeo.com/17985665

@THE_REAL_B_RAE I know, isn't it great? Merry Xmas, purple drank for everyone!! :)

Happy Holidays from #stackoverflow http://goo.gl/IsLCY

after a certain age, the greatest gift someone can give you is .. no gift. #toomuchcrap

What should an athiest do when someone asks them to pray for them? http://goo.gl/Gsx6c

British Animal Voiceovers http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cV6I1_o6vrY

Sorry purple DRANK. http://goo.gl/HTb0 My bad, and to the haters who complained: http://imgur.com/XTdHO.jpg

There is a very fine line between Purple Drink and Nyquil

@nigelbabu see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1985264

on the death of AI, which didn't survive the Area 51 vetting process: http://goo.gl/iMlKs

http://www.skype.com "0 people online right now" <-- probably accurate, given their login outage

bug tracking systems are the places where new ideas go to die

yeah, Skype is back now. But per twitter search, it was definitely down worldwide for a good 10-15 minutes.

wait, so Skype is really down globally? So much for peer to peer..

christmas carols with GWAR http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sf0mpPPKOko

http://www.comicsanscriminal.com/ "helping people like you learn to use Comic Sans appropriately"

is it ironic that our atheism site comes out of beta almost on Christmas? http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/2732/atheism

email is for old people, part eleventy billion http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/21/e-mails-big-demographic-split/

someone mailbombed one of our mail accounts. that's not nice! gmail rule, contains mailed-by:(text), trash. done. :)

Garkov is one of my favorite things on the internet. I <3 you Josh Millard. http://goo.gl/MZpn5

@codinghorror Programming - Dream Job? http://tinyurl.com/258ezxo

"It's like playing simcity with real people!" -- Mark Zuckerberg

it really does seem like traditional search engines are losing the battle against the copypasta spammers. http://goo.gl/ygMCf

someone discovered our super-sekrit #stackoverflow moderator menu. CURSES! http://so.mrozekma.com/my-mod-menu.png

Real keyboarder acid test: WITHOUT LOOKING, which keys on your keyboard have the little tactile "bump" on them?

Having "friends" on teh Facebooks sounds like a big pain in the ass. Just like real life, I guess. http://goo.gl/6F5d4

I feel like I would be willing to wake up at 2 am for a total eclipse of the heart; otherwise, meh.

the Deck keyboard, which I *really* like, came with a custom keycap to install .. http://imgur.com/lzzrG.jpg

it's crazy, but @shoeblogger has the *same* problems we do w/r/t scrapers outranking #stackoverflow in Google.

aiiiiiiiieeee! Google has forsaken the Manolo, too! http://goo.gl/3Qoo7 @shoeblogger

@gortok yeah @jarrod_dixon is always asking me stuff like that. "How do I write output to a web page?" So irritating.

How do you photograph a lunar eclipse? http://photo.stackexchange.com/q/5891

I have now tried three cherry mx keyboard switch types: blue, clear, brown. Definitely prefer clear. http://goo.gl/4Ij8Y

we need to talk about your retweets.

@ryan_emerle I think 3-4 baskets is the right size, 1 is too small. The status quo of 100+ is untenable and dangerous.

@codinghorror It's mind blowing how FizzBuzz really is a good 1st test. Just had a guy walk out in middle w/o writing a ...

@rguerreiro rss is already there and also on the individual sites themselves

you can now subscribe to #stackoverflow tag(s) via email http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/12/subscribe-to-tags-via-emai/

@dpkendal have you even looked at the UI since then? It's a bit different. Old post is old..

@dpkendal really? Clicking the Facebook icon to log in is too hard for non-technical people?

programmers use Bayesian filtering the same way Chris Rock's mom used Robitussin. "got a broken bone? RUB 'TUSSIN ON IT!"

trust nobody. live angry. die alone. Hey, nobody said security was going to be easy, folks.

solution: STOP HOLDING PASSWORDS. And I'm proud to say #stackoverflow has never held a single password. Ever.

"hackers don't target online banks, but online forums and stores that hold your passwords." http://goo.gl/8SHrI

Also, this dispute between my mother and Mark Zuckerberg will be the plot of The Social Network 2.

all hail entropy!

how many other christmas songs have keytar jams this awesome? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kp81a2XwLck

Sega introduces urinal-based gaming. No, really. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAUmwUkPLBM

I can rent movies via YouTube now? when did that happen? http://goo.gl/GXlX

"Facebook Questions will be available to everyone in the US within the next few weeks, so please check back." http://goo.gl/kaOjC

"Warriors of Elysia, the sequel to Bikini Karate Babes.." a fine videogame tradition.. http://goo.gl/R9Egj

Assassins Creed 2 (PC download) for $7.50 today on http://shop.ubi.com but warning: online-only DRM

@loydcase SOLUTION: always test the last one first!!

If you have a Redis question, and instead of asking me here in Twitter you post it into @stackoverflow and send a link, I'l ...

also, if you haven't already, see the "other" aristocrats movie - it's fantastic http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0436078/

I was browsing netflix for @rockardawesome and I saw Disney's Aristocrats. I mean, Aristocats. #mindboggles

http://uniquation.com/en/ TeX math equation search engine -- works with http://math.stackexchange.com too!

The Manslater http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5Vb9SLkq5k

any redditors here set up a reddit? we're having trouble with it.. http://webapps.stackexchange.com/q/10394/7

@codinghorror Gratuitiously embossed fonts is the new gratuitous use of Flash.

p.s. I will emboss your fonting face off

I would like to suplex the people at Apple who decided that font embossing was the next big thing. Thanks for destroying readability.

saddest IMDB profile ever (via @jzy) http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1856457/

@ProfShonle upvotes + accept are plenty of gratitude, filling the world with "thanks!" isn't .. helpful

"I believe Cobb would continue to play ball if he were charged something for the privilege, and the only spectator was the groundskeeper."

increased minimum #stackoverflow post size to 30 chars from 15. Result? "thank you very much :) this is for 30 character :)" >_<

So yeah, @oising this is useful: http://stackexchange.com/tagsets/1088/powershell All #PowerShell questions in one place. @c ...

for the daywalkers: introducing programmers.stackexchange http://goo.gl/VRxUL

90% of nosql/rdbms benchmarks can be summarized as "Look how slow I can read out of ram"

introducing programmers.stackexchange.com http://goo.gl/VRxUL

I heard "word lens" and I was all like, whatever, then I saw the video and I was all like OMFG! http://goo.gl/7NYxU

I need a really epic picture of programming on a whiteboard. Lazyweb LAUNCH

"it makes a nice set with the interrogation room." http://goo.gl/sf8w1 (via @mrdenny et al)

parentitis: at some point you will realize you didn't just "have a baby", you created the MOST AWESOME HUMAN BEING EVER

Did not know Code Rush was on YouTube. It's a documentary about Netscape Corp. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u404SLJj7ig

"I guess we're not in Kansas any more." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QE_OLPEN5vU (via @waxpancake)

wow, these favimon descriptions are eerily accurate http://imgur.com/FZy57.png

rt @codepo8 Favimon - RPG game played with Favicons: http://bit.ly/fHY70l

@rad_g no, this is every 15 minutes, few hours, or daily.

ever wanted to get new #stackoverflow questions mailed to you? well now you can.. http://goo.gl/v2qB4