5 insane but true things about meth! http://goo.gl/8MwK

Milwaukee has the longest running "Rocky Horror Picture Show" in the US, and now has to share space for "The Room." ht ...

As a programmer, I feel a deep sense of shame when I develop an accidental suntan. It ain't right. http://goo.gl/xLOG

I may forfeit my dude card for saying this, but dressing up your baby is hella fun http://goo.gl/BYLr

Would it be fair to say @codinghorror and @spolsky are the Siskel and Ebert of code or are they more like the Stalter ...

a case study in the downside of software (Ning) as a service http://goo.gl/o3NB

wow, Sweden *changed* from left-hand driving to right hand in 1967. That must have been .. complicated. http://goo.gl/C5oO

@codinghorror left hand drive, short story: http://bit.ly/WHski

The Straight Dope on drive-right vs. drive-left. Wish we had all picked the same one. http://goo.gl/q7xo (via @johnmcfadyen)

I don't understand why/where/when/how the grand decision was made to switch from left hand driving to right hand

How can we colonize space when we can't even agree on basic traffic rules? http://goo.gl/hGlo

I hope you know this will go down on your permanent record.

a failblog for computer errors -- http://www.failcomputer.com/

oh science rap, is there anything you can't teach us? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCpNk92uswY

Maori seem much more integrated into NZ culture than American Indians in USA culture. We destroy more effectively.

I wonder if anyone Hongi'd @spolsky seeing as how he is a "New Zealander" .. AND APPARENTLY LOVES JAM http://goo.gl/lnHt

kept seeing all these "facial eczema warning level" signs in NZ, here's why http://goo.gl/nUWe

One of the things I admire most about Apple is their willingness to say 'screw you' to their partners. I'm not kidding. http://goo.gl/clyA

I find myself unable to really get excited about any Olympic events that weren't included in Epyx Winter Games.

the only Hitler/Downfall youtube meme you'll need to ever see; still brilliant http://bit.ly/qEoUr

I won't kid you, international travel with babby is *way* hard, but then there are moments like this: http://goo.gl/53Bz

The Sir Mix-a-Lot Mash-Up Conjecture: There exists no popular music which cannot be improved by the sudden arrival of "I! ...

why is Cotton Candy called "Candy Floss" here in NZ? THE ENTIRE WORLD HAS GONE MAD

camera geek porn, apparently http://goo.gl/k5xZ

Hmm, @gruber ignores that Flash on other platforms can and does use hardware H.264 decoding, but Apple won’t give Adobe ...

the fastest way to figure out a foreign culture is to visit their grocery store / supermarket

Damn this spam: http://www.bloggerheads.com/images/star_wars_ads_leia.jpg

r @flitzwald the day I compose 12+ tweets on the friggin' Bachelor, I WANT you all to unfollow me. Nuke me from orbit, better yet.

This video symbolizes so much more than a simple kick to the groin. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a86cQobU-n4

slides from my Webstock 2010 presentation -- Stack Overflow: Building Social Software for the Anti-Social http://goo.gl/4W7A

thanks #webstock you were awesome! Would love to stay for day two, but camper van tour with @rockhardawesome and @betsyphd beckons

rt @AnnaCY Big Bang Theory Shirts! RT @jahnkekong http://www.sheldonshirts.com/

"all email responses regardless of recipient or subject will be five sentences or less" http://five.sentenc.es/

mark my words, one day Cricket will be revealed as a cruel hoax on the world

@buckybit fortunately, we never accidentally drop production databases. :)

reviewers who consider dropping optical drive from today's laptop "risky!" must be the same morons who wanted floppy drives in iMacs

relaxing my 13" laptop screen requirement to 14", the dell studio 14z is a good fit to my needs. http://goo.gl/DQZc

Apple TV: crappy Apple product, or *crappiest* Apple product? Even the Apple /// had more street cred.

We shouldn't be asking, "Can you complete the task?" but rather "Are you motivated to do it in the first place?" http://goo.gl/gEdP

wow, foursquare has zero common sense protection of their badge "economy" http://goo.gl/uaNH

this is how my workshop at Webstock 2010 ended, and in fact, ALL workshops should end http://goo.gl/xISI

ZModem ftw. RT @snipeyhead Feb 16 is the BBS's 32nd birthday! http://bit.ly/doC3Ax

Conversation with Metafilter Founder Matt Haughey [one of my heroes] http://goo.gl/hoOo

"Not even the traffic and sales heft of Yahoo could make the advertising inventory on Geocities attractive" http://goo.gl/Aogt

Illegal Genetic Opcodes of the New Atomic Supermen http://goo.gl/rwRZ

Windows Mobile 7, now that *is* more like it. Worried about the browser, though. No webkit could be .. bad. http://goo.gl/DRuW

@wdthem my wife was very impressed that I got "recognized" on the street, so thank you for that :)

A thing of beauty: the SQlite/C# port now has ADO.NET bindings, that is, it is a fully managed provider starting at R ...

r @clarity99 it's true "american cheese" is another national embarrassment. I try my best to pretend it doesn't exist.

Gotta love a country whose PM appears at "Big Gay Out" & gladly poses for a pic with a drag queen. NZ FTW. http://twitp ...

Pups & Order http://nastynets.com/?p=2890

whatever happened to Dread Zeppelin? Love these guys. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16LI4TUucW4

"The future will be created by first equalling, then going beyond, paper." http://goo.gl/s3UO

I see they have decent milk chocolate here in New Zealand. It's a national tragedy that America sucks at milk chocolate.

I'm pretty sure the person who coined the phrase "slept like a baby" never actually had a baby.

now testing toilet in southern hemisphere for flush direction.

Holy crap. International travel with Babby is like 4x harder. No idea how 2+ kid families do it.

Michael Bolton on the airporter soft rock radio. That no-talent ass clown.

Leaving for 2 week trip to NZ and I gotta tell you, the 11 month old is totally not pulling his weight on this one

r @sarkkine imagine how many jobs the bad programming of IE6 "created". Or the "always run as admin" historical Windows security model.

so, live mashup performances -- is this the future of cover bands? http://goo.gl/OeCP

@gortok too much work; I have a lot on my mind grapes already http://mindgrapes.net/

r @jcoehoorn I disagree; I think using different technologies/languages *enhances* your credibility as a software developer

nobody hates software more than software developers http://goo.gl/Deo5

"Take the angriest user you've ever met, multiply that by 1000, and you still haven't come close to how we programmers feel about software"

some stay dry, others feel the pain.

If dolls imitate life, then I predict the Computer Engineer Barbie will switch major to Business School Barbie after two semesters.

r @RockBandAide that's because truth is boring. TRUE STORY!

I need a giant red rubber {MEH.} stamp. http://goo.gl/pwYM

r @infinitiesloop well I guess that's the kiss of death for vark.com then http://bit.ly/cvWUkq

experts-exchange t-shirts, unlike unicorns, bigfoot, and the female orgasm, are not a myth -- they exist! http://goo.gl/prCN

On the Stack Overflow team, whoever breaks the build must wear the experts-exchange t-shirt. It is our shame item.

@dpkendal that makes two of us

seriously: how does one troubleshoot recurring "beachball of death" on OSX? http://goo.gl/aWgc

I didn't realize there was zombie-BeOS still out there shambling around... http://goo.gl/3QQB

"my OSX crashes more than XP ever did" -- a Mac user I know. Like I was saying: http://goo.gl/xDHb need new iPad style paradigms to "fix"

"you might not believe this, but I used to hit myself too." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CFzCBbOXKc

long, long story but even mighty googlebot does not make it to ?page=25919 out of 33897 -- in our experience, anyway. sitemap.xml uber alles

pagination is a funny thing. on stack overflow, the questions "pages" go from 1 to 33,897. Who ever visits page 25,919?

r @wolfbyte I don't see a lot of value in SO twitter echos because http://twitter.com/isnotrss -- that said, 3rd parties doing it

sheesh, the 16gb usb key I bought ~2 years ago is toast -- crazy erratic behavior. Tossing it.

sometimes, meta.stackoverflow brings teh funny http://goo.gl/l2O0

The Google Buzz security settings page makes Facebook look like it was designed by a team from Mensa.

take a wild guess which of these presenters did not submit a description for their talks! lol http://goo.gl/nR3Y

here's a preview of my interpretive dance segment. http://goo.gl/knV8

"Through interpretive dance, Jeff Atwood, will share his experiences of building StackOverflow." http://goo.gl/nR3Y

Logitech's excellent wooden guitar replica is on sale for $99: Xbox 360 http://is.gd/8bxBr PS3: http://is.gd/8bxLB

How to Make a Movement by Sivers using the dancing guy vid. so great. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW8amMCVAJQ

thinking about buying a computer history museum brick for Stack Overflow http://www.computerhistory.org/contribute/impression/

another sacrifice at the altar of PC backwards compatibility: boot times. http://goo.gl/Tpvk

"only 30 per cent of new World of Warcraft players make it past level 10" http://goo.gl/uE41

I don't understand why other people's children are so annoying, while mine is SO AWESOME

iPhone sausage play. Get your mind out of the gutter! http://goo.gl/245B

I've tried at least 10 different "tilt to control" games on the iPhone across all genres. Suckage is universal.

I am an unabashed fan of iPhone, but I gotta say that "tilt to control" is a horrible, *horrible* game control mechanism

rt @amykhar hell, if a woman has anything bigger than a B cup and can turn on a computer, guys immediately declare her a geek goddess

r @CharlieSears apparently they're allowed to drive and vote now too! [me: WHAT?!?]

I still can't believe women actually use computers now! And real women, not just guys pretending to be women, like last time!

wow. Dolph Lundgren was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to MIT? I did .. not .. know that. http://goo.gl/KGDw

Internet Explorer 9 better be super-mega-kickass. We are owed.