I noticed that @rockhardawesome appears in this image search for "Programming is Awesome" http://goo.gl/gk6N

in the end, isn't everything just a HashTable(), really?

oh yeah, that's just what PHP needed, a slathering of disgustipating XML marmite http://bit.ly/b15UWm

every new mailing list must be christened with a "REMOVE ME FROM THIS LIST!!" sent to everyone. Hint: email sucks.

"back" is a FAR more useful metaphor than "home". How many times do you click the "home" button in your browser, versus "back"?

lessig on "are corporations people?" http://goo.gl/fEEF

it is so eerie how much of what Google does resembles Microsoft. Maybe it's just standard big-company-itis, or something.

mirrors: crazy scary, yo! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tjoqhx_dwk

Slate on Android. "All but the simplest applications have menus." http://goo.gl/bm8u

email really is for old people http://goo.gl/2Emb

Dear sweet JESUS how browsers need to support native, open authentication. So sick of logging into websites.

I just got an email from a co-worker to the whole team: "I keep my laptop unlocked. Come prank it<eom>"

"The iPhone may be a fascist regime, but the trains run on time and the streets are very well maintained."

it is just scary how long we, as an industry, will have to support Windows XP. Probably another 10 years IMO

Google hires a battalion of CompSci PhDs that have never lived out of school and people wonder why they struggle with so ...

what do you make of this? http://goo.gl/pbo5

congratulations, you're one step closer to hitting bottom. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuiKJ0rRTAo

is this what Windows dump analysis does to people? Wow. http://goo.gl/fDSW

rest assured, your pedantry has been duly noted.

95% of all user-generated content is crap. That's 4% better than I expected. http://goo.gl/9rfI

Remember, there is nothing perfect in life. Except for The Clash, root beer, and ice cream sandwiches.

"I was working on software that nobody cared about, not even the client" Amen! http://goo.gl/qh7g

Stack Overflow 2010 moderator election results.. featuring SOFTWARE MAGICKS!!@1! http://goo.gl/Sncw

OMG WING IS FROM NEW ZEALAND! I WILL BE IN NEW ZEALAND! YES!!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoYrBdw-aDg

r @kevindente with our code, it's actually more like this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgMlWjZ81fc

I often have this reaction while working on our code. http://goo.gl/IEZF "A NEW LINE OF CODE IS BORN.. IN THE GHETTO"

people still use executables to read and send email? How bizarre. http://goo.gl/FTjc

search is the only UI metaphor worth a damn any more. too much data, too many windows, too much input.

r @mharen our version is on Google Code, or you can dig through the fork-splosion on github and try to guess which version is "best"

I'm feeling suuuuuper sparkly today -:)

I can't understand why nobody wants to play with me. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xITVFgxcDIg

Best Superbowl pic ever! ;) http://is.gd/7YeBF

r @jarrod_dixon book learning, the worst type. Let me ask you this: can you kick MY ass? http://goo.gl/sUQi

the ultimate bargain: never buy anything.

I just realized that Markdown's reliance on whitespace for formatting control is probably why Python devs take to Stack Overflow

r @donpark serial entrepreneurs are about as trustworthy as guys with serial marriages. always chasing tail.

google knows our users are awesome, because it keeps elevating their user profiles to Sitelink level, lol

@codinghorror congrats on StackOverflow hitting 500,000 questions! Here's to the next 500,000!

Super Bowl, more like Commercial Bowl, amirite? http://goo.gl/PswO

Apple May Retain AT&T As Exclusive iPhone Partner? http://goo.gl/Yl5s

best action scene of all time delivers.. action http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_K9AxO5t4BE

hmm, cooling compressor failed at datacenter.

I am not entirely sure @spolsky has this right; it's not the working conditions that kill you, it's your coworkers.

"this is like baby got back for white people" well, DUH http://goo.gl/s2K8

rt @mike_acton: Me: "Being a teenager is like being a newbie person." Daughter: "No, I *am* a person!" Me: "Whatever, noob."

the US Army teaches us microcomputers: application programming http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kilIyXfHg0&NR=1

see what happens when you don't keep a watchful eye over your ad sales weasels?! http://goo.gl/fQFR

why does the Mac Finder hate keyboard shortcuts so much? http://goo.gl/dSwF

finally, the weekend. Now I can get some friggin' WORK done.

still researching website APIs; @kstewart has a nice reference at http://working-code.com/

ah, email formatted entirely in Comic Sans, how I have not missed you.

you can't have a "direct New Yorker style of communication" without dropping the f-bomb http://goo.gl/lYxo

our iPad crazy, Mac-lovin', @danielpunkass featurin' episode of podcast 82: http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/02/podcast-82/

Because it's totally bitchin', ridin' ways to blast clay pigeons. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMNRo4ii2Pk

I don't burn bridges because it's personal. I burn bridges because man, that bridge totally *sucked*.

what website APIs would you point to as the "gold standard" of a quality API implementation? http://is.gd/7JQkH

"The answer tends to be 'no one but me'" http://goo.gl/3j11

@bluej100 another SATISFIED customer! :)

parenting in terms us dudes can understand: at some point, holding your child will feel better to you than holding boobs.

@codinghorror you should try Outside sometimes. http://bit.ly/dsbcos

r @salmonmoose what is this "outside" you speak of?

you people who say reading is bad on LCDs are high as a kite. I read on my LCDs ALL .. DAY .. LONG. I'm doing it RIGHT NOW. And it's fine.

I've long subscribed to the FailBlog. Think it's time to subscribe to its counterpart. http://is.gd/7IQvw

"In an interview with PC Pro, ARM CEO Warren East predicted that netbooks could eventually make up 90% of the PC market"

the Kindle and Nook hardware have been definitively killed by the iPad. They need to just ... stop.

latest Evony ad. Standard Evony ad disclaimer, "I only wish this was a parody, this is real" http://goo.gl/smhV

I really wish we could come up with a better UI navigation metaphor than "bunch of icons on a background" for .. well, everything

the fascinating story behind HeLa cells http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/03/books/03book.html?em

the p-versus-np page, aka "stop wasting our damn time already!!" http://www.win.tue.nl/~gwoegi/P-versus-NP.htm

r @nathanbowers the road to enterprise software hell is paved with gold. Filthy, filthy gold.

My six year old is asking for examples of things that are infinite. I am running short after the math and God categories.. s ...

r @wilshipley is reinforcing all my negative stereotypes of Mac users. BAD SHIPLEY! BAD! <sprays water>

If you believe choice of screwdrivers, pens, notebooks, brushes, computers, etc is an aesthetic statement, you are part of the problem.

r @wilshipley I don't self-identify as my computer. I self-identify as WHAT I CREATE with my computer.

all kidding aside, you're on crack if you write web apps in C++. Perf benefits negligible vs. JITed langs. http://goo.gl/57lQ

identicon gravatars (creation of our pal @donpark) too staid and boring for you? BEHOLD, UNICORNIFICONS! http://goo.gl/3kNV

r @drylight but hardware drivers can BLUESCREEN the OS. Way lower level. Wake me up when you have hardware *choices*, even.

rt @mrmass Google should just blame "faulty plugins" instead of fixing anything, like Apple does. [ice cold!]

r @robvm enable the new Java out of process plugin http://bit.ly/bpnNvj (this is real out of process, not like the Chrome implementation)

wow, the LegalTorrents Java uploader managed to crash EVERY Chrome instance I had running. Thanks, Java.

I got a lot on my mind grapes. http://mindgrapes.net/

This is the Title of a Typical Incendiary Blog Post http://faultline.org/index.php/site/item/incendiary/

"Boot up what server?" http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=29370&cid=3155380 via @sebastianlewis

also funny: naming servers "yourmom". as in "I just turned on yourmom." yes, I know, mentally, I am twelve years old.

you know what makes meetings 105% more fun? Ending every other sentence in "(dramatic pause) ... sexually."

r @ianwessman The hidden message in HipHop: your PHP is at least *twice* as slow as it needs to be [exactly]

r @knorby "you can add it on to the pile of 10k open bugs" This is why bug tracking is a lie: defining "bugs" is 100% political

urgh. When is Chrome going to implement "press escape to stop animated GIFs from animating"? Where can I vote for that??

@HMXkfan if you have to ask, the correct answer is always assless chaps. Duh.

email: still broken. I just checked. Yep. Also broken: systems built on top of email. You know who you are.

whenever someone mentions Greasemonkey, in my head it is sung to the tune of "Brass Monkey" by the Beastie Boys http://goo.gl/5QVw

"An object 140 meters across hitting the Earth would, to be technical, suck. Hard. " http://goo.gl/evvg (via @loydcase)

"Our best minds have gone into financial engineering instead of real engineering, with catastrophic results for both sectors." heh.

"Don't Mess With Texas," "Don't Flirt with Rhode Island" and other state rules: http://bit.ly/9lowec

trollin', trollin', trollin' .. keep them doggies trollin'! http://goo.gl/eQBl

"Today, for $50 you can buy a home PC program that will crush most [Chess] grandmasters." http://goo.gl/l7HI

Had a programming question, searched StackOverflow.com, and found the answer I myself wrote 1.5 yrs ago. My inner geek is pl ...

despite @howtogeek 's best advice, I only know how to do things one way: THE HARD WAY http://goo.gl/CqC3

On red-green colorblindness: "Christmas is a nightmare for me." http://blog.yapb.net/

Q: what do Computer Science students use for birth control? A: Their personalities.