bet against the American Dream http://vimeo.com/10815824

"we must learn to differentiate sociable applications from sociopathic applications."

"Clearly, even people who play Farmville want to avoid playing Farmville." http://goo.gl/ZwuJ (via @cshirky)

Not sure why there are people in the posters. At least the freaky smile guy in VS setup is gone w/ 2010 - he will haunt us ...

when did SNL's Victoria Jackson go batshit crazy? Apparently I did not get the memo on that. http://goo.gl/UOD6

what should the stackoverflow.com computer history museum brick say? http://goo.gl/QQjl

If real life were more like the internet... http://bit.ly/9NjtyN (via @tomtomorrow)

I just became the mayor of hating your FourSquare tweets.

stupid camera stealing Octopus!!! http://jwz.livejournal.com/1224298.html

Interesting "Is Android really open?" article: http://goo.gl/Xwzn (via @carnage4life)

Emergency BBS list in case of internet shut down http://goo.gl/qtHI (via @john_lam)

"Thoreau says the mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. Not programmers, though. They lead lives of really loud desperation."

Hey Guys!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOw12oUzYYA (via @waxpancake)

@dozba guess somebody at Google failed their bubble sort algorithm interview test.

"stackoverflow.com our VCs asked us to build a business, but we spent all their money on this brick instead" http://goo.gl/JiOD

Men are from Mars. Women are from Venus. Computers are from hell.

I sometimes suspect Google makes hosted domain GMail slow to induce people to pay for an upgrade. Soooo much slower than public GMail.

Scott Hanselman: "let's say you had another Jon Skeet.. a needlepoint-loving, bow and arrow hunting, moustached Jon Skeet.."

Google has a few servers http://goo.gl/RGF1 (via @loydcase)

just merged a user who kept a browser cookie-based unregistered account alive for a year. That's amazing.

WHAT? Metallica actually *doesn't* play smooth jazz style? I HAD NO IDEA!!1@! #this-aint-my-first-rodeo

rt @jacksonh Courage Wolf's opinion on taxes: http://i.imgur.com/uUkXz.jpg

holy CRAP Metallica's smooth jazz is awesome.

Metallica playing Enter Sandman, smooth jazz stylee http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBmM79YadYM

"We’re trying to make this so good that we’re even including bacon." I am liking the cut of Phil Windley's jib. http://goo.gl/TGsE

Joel Spolsky interview and transcript about now-free Stack Exchange 2.0 http://goo.gl/6bN5

iPad: so easy to use, even cats can do it! http://goo.gl/Lftm

disqus comments are a canker sore on every web page they appear on. Not a fan.

boilerplate legalese email footers are like sending a giant "<-- I'M WITH STUPID" in every message

oh my God, this is terrifying http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcSujceZDmg (via @jzy)

if-by-whiskey http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If-by-whiskey

Shocking secrets of classic paintings revealed in 3D! http://bit.ly/bwjDl4

@HMXkfan what if your job is *being* awesome? I mean, that's my job. Being awesome.

Q: What if everyone worked together to create something amazing? A: It would suck.

MEGA PIRANHA!!! http://goo.gl/lIpn

Fred Wilson’s 10 Golden Principles of Successful Web Apps http://goo.gl/Cy00

OpenID, one year later http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/04/openid-one-year-later/

Stack Exchange 2.0 -- now free -- details http://blog.stackexchange.com/post/518474918/stack-exchange-2-0

Somehow Google, Microsoft, and Apple have found 3 totally different ways to be arrogant and disconnected. Impressive.

BLASPHEMY! Google Chrome v5.0.375.3 removed "http://" from the address bar! http://twitpic.com/1fbm98

r @TALlama with Stack Overflow, Inc, longer term we'd like to at least *try* to claw our way out of the engineer ghetto.

hey @wilshipley who needs your fancypants Delicious Libraries on Windows! We have All My Movies! http://goo.gl/T3ZV

I like reddit, but I find its comment format, threading, and general layout almost completely unreadable. It is *painful*.

Intellivision iPhone app is remarkably realistic -- the touch controls are absolute crap, just like a real Intellivision!

I agree with @nathanbowers , Apple approving the Opera browser app for iPhone has to be some kind of elaborate practical joke

1 person's dream can change everything! except if it's, like, this other person's dream.. who already implemented it.. with a zillion users

FreezeCrowd! http://bit.ly/cUoffC http://bit.ly/97celj (via @waxpancake)

"XML is syntactic arsenic" http://www.windley.com/archives/2002/07/12.shtml

Json is so much nicer to work with than XML. XML makes me want to cut myself. http://www.json.org/fatfree.html

RT @dalmaer: "Google will soon make its VP8 video codec open source" The one for this @ #GoogleIO will be HUGE http://bit ...

though I'm pretty sure any ad agency of Apple's that failed to use QuickTime for their videos wouldn't have the contract for very long.

Lubing up. Sorry, I mean "moisturizing."

Please do not change your password. You were right: It’s a waste of your time. http://bit.ly/ad69vX

generally speaking, a cross-database query implies a strong boundary, and should *probably* be served by an API abstraction instead

speaking of wormholes, do not allow cross-database queries in your code. You will live to regret this (tm).

Clearly, I *NEED* a pet Kangaroo. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFEB1VyvZEA

whatever it is, it beats being dead. I think.

I love the fake Googlebot scrapers. Oh, SURE you're Google! Yeah! I totally believed that!

No wonder monsters want to eat babies, they are freakin' delicious!

I, personally, have no problem with programmers being glorified plumbers. Look at Mario, being a plumber is AWESOME!

IE8 score on the html5 test should just be the letters "LOL" instead of a an actual number.

where there are numbers, there can only be winners and losers! http://html5test.com/

"Go is just another language
written first for the compiler and only secondarily for the programmer" http://goo.gl/iv5i (via @dehora)

patience diff algorithm http://goo.gl/e2aM

Total eclipse of the sun? Nope, that's just Gruber's e-peen after Steve Jobs cited his blog post as canon.

arcade button art piece http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hA1PAzQGETw

having some Rotten City Pizza with a little Emeryville, CA history lesson on the side http://goo.gl/DSF8

This is my new Stack Overflow strategy journal http://twitpic.com/1eo7xd

Required reading/listening: The Magnetar/financial crisis story by ProPublica & Planet Money (http://bit.ly/9YxkXJ & http:/ ...

the user reviews for Tweet Nothings are a lot of fun. Should be limited to 140 characters, though: http://goo.gl/rVw7

crap, now I need an iPad too. http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/iCade.shtml

Ironic song amended to be Ironic http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1925705

explaining "miracles" to the Insane Clown Posse http://newsroom.mtv.com/2010/04/08/insane-clown-posse-miracles/

the Alanis song "Ironic" contains no actual irony.. but what if the SONG ITSELF is meant to be ironic? THINK ABOUT IT, MAN!

"I'm Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho, and I approve of this message." http://is.gd/bn8gB

"[ebert] had initially underestimated [Groundhog Day's] many virtues and only came to truly appreciate it through repeated viewings."

Watched Groundhog Day on the plane. it is less a feel good comedy than a dark existential mindf**k.

It is always inspiring to discover celebrities are just as petty and vindictive as the rest of us http://bit.ly/br63ip

@codinghorror http://i.imgur.com/74W1F.jpg

I miss meetings.

That's what everyone keeps telling me! http://twitpic.com/1ebtoa

Google has "don't be evil"; we think Stack Overflow llc's is "leave the Internet better than we found it". Thoughts?

We still don't know! http://twitpic.com/1eb18b

"I thought something bad was happening, but it was just Adobe Updater" -- @jarrod_dixon

what's wrong with iPad typography http://fontfeed.com/archives/ipad-typography/

Stack Overflow, Super User, and Server Fault t-shirts now for sale! http://inedomedia.com/store/stackoverflowstore.aspx

iPhone v4 is adding .. folders? That's .. uh .. thinking different, I guess.

Even @jonskeet can't defeat Ticket Master. They are infinitely evil.

Pixels. Awesome. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcXtT3rZcqg&feature=player_embedded

thanks to @wilshipley's sage advice, I now end all my conversations with "SEACREST OUT!"

@dozba youtube link or it didn't happen :)

If you are wondering where the "crazy moon language" meme came from, here you go http://goo.gl/c07S

damn, even Gruber is kinda lukewarm on iPad. I thought it was just me. (we have 2 in this room) http://goo.gl/ov3T

FYIFV http://bit.ly/aeSaXP

omg @betsyphd got us tickets to the Berkeley Flight of the Conchords show!! I hereby declare her best wife ever! EVER!

Dear freaky NYC art in bookstore window, we fixed you. You're welcome. http://twitpic.com/1dr2w5

Then: open-source vs. proprietary software lock-in debate. Now: open vs. walled garden platform/API debate http://bit.ly/cC ...

Art at Fog Creek HQ in NYC http://twitpic.com/1dnk9t

We get the distinct pleasure of walking by this every day in NYC http://twitpic.com/1dmdlb

Ebert says John Cusack has never made a bad movie. Agree?