r @NathanBowers I think Doctorow is really afraid kids will learn to love their corporate masters, rather than question authority.

Gruber is right -- the rich kids who can afford the requisite $999 MacBook and $99 fee are makers and tinkerers, too, man!

"I honor the place where your desire to consume becomes one with my desire to create." http://goo.gl/V193

@loydcase but since when is *undervolting* disallowed??

watching @jarrod_dixon and @superdalgas mess around with their new iPads they got at the Soho Apple store

hey @loydcase I am finding my laptop's P8700 CPU to be VID locked so I can't undervolt it -- at all ! :( is this common?

today's grammatical lesson, brought to you by Weird Al Yankovic and your local grocery store http://goo.gl/A4ry

somebody got murdered / somebody's dead forever http://goo.gl/jYxc

C is the IE6 of programming languages. Sure, it innovated, and was good for its time, but it's cost us billions. literally.

"Given the timeframe .. I don't think we could have expected anything better than C." there were options, but they got steamrolled

I'm on a plane, and let me tell you, I have HAD it with these monkey fighting snakes on this monday to friday plane! http://is.gd/bbA0E

some people, given a time machine, would go back in time and stop Hitler. Not me; I'd go back in time and un-invent C.

I'm coining a new word. Doocebaggery: when all the mommy bloggers create a huge drama out of minutiae and go apeshit on ea ...

but @BeowulfOF has a good point as well; "more code" isn't necessarily a plus, either. Maybe less of both talk and code? Balance?

I love my fellow programmers, but sometimes I feel we'd be better off overall with less talk and more code.

well, at least the iPad is interesting enough to argue about. Can't really say that about any new iMac or PC or even phone, really

I may have to block my own business partner on Twitter .. et tu, @spolsky ?

Wow... Cory's iPad rant, right or wrong, is monumental. http://is.gd/bbnWN

travelling would be so much more enjoyable with a MultiPass

Good night, unicorns. You may have captured our hearts, but we could never capture a spirit so free.

heading to NYC at the crack of frickin' dawn. Bart -> International Terminal -> Virgin US

hmm. in the iPhone NYC subway app iTrans, the "peel up for options" in the right corner is bright red. Sign of UI fail.

the show "Breaking Bad" is kinda blowing my mind. I heard it was good, but I didn't know they meant "season 1 of the Sopranos" good.

April fools day was weird. I guess in fifty years it will be a bigger event than Easter. Corporations will have a budget ...

the importance of "Charlie Bit My Finger" (which ironically I had never seen) http://goo.gl/9bL6

@FeedleDeedee excellent, glad you enjoyed it! unicorn POWER!

OMG A-TEAM TRAILER OMG OMG OMG http://trailers.apple.com/movies/fox/theateam/ateam-tlr2_720p.mov

last GUID used up. http://goo.gl/IJq9

"it baffles me to see this (often male) obsession with Unicorns." well, unicorns are weaponized ponies. DUH

"Your horse is not gay. It is merely standing near a rainbow." http://goo.gl/DiWP

r @nathanbowers there is no reason for iPad specific "newspapers" to exist; same as in 2007 http://goo.gl/NC8S

Petting a kitty feels so good. but then, so does crushing my enemies.

wow, props to reddit for most excellent april fools; everyone can click "turn admin on" and .. do admin stuff! lol

email feedback: "what is this unicorn fixation?" I have no idea what you're talking about. http://goo.gl/BuFB

plus, you figure if iPhone v4 is getting multitasking, so will iPad v2. More excited about iPhone v4 than iPad, frankly.

v1 of Apple new-category-anything is crazy risky. Look at the iPhone and iPod. Good devices, but 1st one is obsolete in seconds.

reading @pogue 's review of the iPad. "The Apple iPad is basically a gigantic iPod Touch." good: fast! bad: heavy. my verdict: wait for v2

oh, I love April Fool's day. And if you don't, you know what? you suck.

@rusanu refactored to bool unicorns actually, even before I read this.. :)

public static string RenderGravatar(User u, int size, bool noUnicorns) // actual code

hey, just got a new webcam! Let's try it out and see what I look li.. AHH! AHH TURN IT OFF! TURN IT OFF!

here's that @hotdogsladies post http://goo.gl/pZCf at the time I was like, WHATEVER! WUSS! But now, I understand..

you know, @hotdogsladies was right. Having a child really does turn you into an emotional pu**y.

Stack Overflow API private beta starts http://goo.gl/9HXI

explaining this in a way that VCs can understand -- Twitter : Facebook :: Stack Overflow : Quora

can't stop watching Football, America, and Jesus. Considering calling for help. http://goo.gl/cdT9

<waves hand> you want to help me with this aggravating WebKit css problem. you know you do. http://goo.gl/uirR

I'm pretty sure Jay-z didn't have Miley Cyrus in mind when laying down his tracks http://goo.gl/raG6

@hglennrock it was mostly The Miracle of Science, honestly .. http://goo.gl/8kkB

love this. Tilt-shift sumo. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9K0I45UAN8

500 worst passwords (image, salty language, via @blowdart) http://goo.gl/LuVp

We're heading toward two classes of computers: one for people like me, and one for people like my Mom. http://bit.ly/aYeoxH

also @Demize99 I'm sure you've seen this but.. http://i41.tinypic.com/5x1yeu.png so.. yeah.. uh.. balance n' stuff..

Hey, it's almost April 1st! Curmudgeons, start your engines.

I wish I could hire all the Stack Overflow and Server Fault and Super User users because they're so awesome. Also, I am not biased.

A design is complete not when there is nothing more to add but rather when the client's wallet has nothing left to remove.

"You think you got it bad? I GOT EXPENSES. I'M A CRACK ADDICT."

Space Invaders Enterprise Edition. Somewhere, a Taito programmer commits hara-kiri. http://goo.gl/1BWe

come on, someone thought the Scarface school play video was real? Really?

oh the Scarface School Play, it is the comedy gold http://goo.gl/q2hK

rt @mrdenny "the newest version of Flashblock for FF also blocks Silverlight" looks like Silverlight has finally arrived!

stack overflow is at build 6660.. good omen or bad?

Yahoo Answers makes *so* much more sense now that @spolsky discovered it's basically a safe chat room for 13 year old girls

sugar. water. purple. http://goo.gl/qdkt

Shame our moon doesn't have a name. All the others do. Fancy ones too. Ours is just The Moon. Like calling your dog, The ...

this Harmonix Rock Band 3 leak story is freakin' hilarious http://goo.gl/iQLo excellent job @plasticaxe

part of the Stack Overflow compensation package -- you will be featured in cartoons. Really. http://goo.gl/onJS

I totally forgot that new year = new Best of Bootie! 2009 represent! http://www.bootiemashup.com/bestofbootie2009/

REALLLLLY looking forward to hiring a sysadmin for stackoverflow.com. And I am sure @superdalgas agrees with me on that one..

wow, sustained 68k+ hits per hour to stackoverflow.com from a single IP.. that's a new all-time record for asshattery

take a chance, people! that's all I'm saying! http://goo.gl/pCQj

Brilliant: exposing Stackoverflow's data with OData: RT: @shanselman
http://goo.gl/fb/SQAh

I guess I could love other people's code, but it's like loving other people's children -- not quite the same as your own

I love working on my crappy code. it is crappy, but it is mine.

@knorby well, I changed absolutely nothing in my Gmail since the blog post, and I don't customize anything, ever, in Gmail

be patient, Google is still working through the other 41 shades of blue to figure out which is optimal for the user.

see for yourself. Gmail buttons now moved farther apart, in subtle "we tested 42 shades of blue" Google style.. http://goo.gl/npPL

holy crap, did Gmail change their UI since my latest blog post? I can't believe it. Next up, wishing people into cornfields.

"all rock music is dangerous." http://goo.gl/5LrP

"will sit on giant buttons and deflect deadly photons for love." http://goo.gl/1QZu

furries re-enact famous panda sneeze clip http://goo.gl/ydGG , internet weeps

pc video card hardware humor DELIVERS http://tinyurl.com/gtx480loud

eating some Taco Bell while watching Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution! Great show!

wow, they make a "reverse flying V" electric guitar? Nutty. http://www.amazon.com/Gibson-Reverse-Flying-Limited-Electric/dp/B0013O8UR2

r @dozba agree on Flickr's "spaceball.gif" copy protection, but I'd argue it's effective enough for the casual web user

looks like I really need to get me a copy of Just Cause 2 for PC.. http://goo.gl/igdj

my favorite community open source ad on Stack Overflow. Hey, at least it's honest, man! http://goo.gl/Q9kU

r @migueldeicaza "Mr. Morton is the subject of the sentence; what the predicate says, he does" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7S_B9GcRI0

the sequel to Heavy Rain should be Chocolate Rain, the game, with Tay Zonday.

"And yet, despite the crushing performance penalty, anti-virus software is de rigeur in the PC world" http://goo.gl/2gj9

I don't understand why (some) people want a "give me a random thing!" button, but then, I don't get StumbleUpon either and it's huge

"Pikachu is his slave name." http://goo.gl/CZvQ

HOW TO WRITE GOOD. http://bit.ly/cGXXKS (via @jzy)

Reddit just ate a ton of my time: http://goo.gl/wx0C and http://goo.gl/tZXL Stay away! Don't click! You've been warned!

I hereby declare the new Nvidia GTX 480 (Fermi) the Pentium 4 of video cards. A long road traversed, but a dead end.

for reference 130 watts is like 4-5 laptops worth of energy.

the new nvidia video card pulls down 130w more than the radeon 5870 under load (!!!!!) http://goo.gl/WqRC

@loydcase "AMD, Nvidia is sticking with a maximum of two displays with a single card." BOOOOOOoooo

a little birdie told me there is secret private beta testing of a Stack Overflow API going on. Probably LIES!

new Stack Overflow motto: "Uber Evil!" trying to court those users attracted to naughty, bad-boy websites!