r @gruber I'm saying that SO at GitHub independently agreed on 2/3 of the top Markdown changes. Perhaps time for Markdown v2?

iphone style checkboxes for jQuery -- cool! http://bit.ly/mGPTE

hey @gruber , they're saying we should "Replace Markdown with a more elegant solution which understands CRLF." http://is.gd/4ytPD

whatever happened to Ronald Wayne? Ouch. Ouch. http://bit.ly/qk0gQ

rt @jzy Black Perl http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Perl #perl #poetry

r @jongalloway it's quite simple; stop pandering to corporations and start pandering to consumers. Bad news: corporations pay a LOT more.

r @sburnap "Intel + developer friendly guts is why [Apple] is now succeeding" totally agree, 100% smart biz, but not "thinking different"

That's "Thinking Different". x86 and Unix, not so fucking much.

Meh. I wish Apple had built on the BeOS instead, and stuck to their guns on the PowerPC supercomputing initative.

r @kevindente Apple's "innovation" is 1) adopting x86 and 2) adopting unix. Good biz strat, but not exacly Fire In The Valley material

maybe once everything's a web app, we can actually have new operating systems. But even then, I doubt it.

funny how @gruber 's all like "Apple innovates around the OS", when it's Yet Another Unix Flavor. That is CRAZY INNOVATIVE!!1!

if it wasn't for Dave Cutler and Windows NT kernel, would there even *be* anything other than the UNIX monoculture in OS-land?

r @seesharp only one key tip for downloading content from Xbox Live: it's tied to the CPU (and account), so do it on "your" Xbox!

I swear we get *more* landline phone calls now that our landline has been disconnected! How is that possible? (turns phone off)

there is a parade going on almost directly outside. Here is how I feel about that. http://is.gd/4y7jZ

what's my favorite rhyming couplet of all time? I'm so glad you asked: "poetry in motion / Coconut lotion."

mr @rockhardawesome doing his best Larry King impression http://is.gd/4wVVZ

ITS MADE OF CRUMPETS THATS WHY

rt @portman_wills the UK's ccTLD is weird for all sorts of reasons, check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.uk

is the uk the only TLD that does this crazy amazon.co.uk thing? Isn't it usually just amazon.fr, amazon.ca, amazon.de, and so on?

I love the smell of Regular Expressions in the evening.

rt @shanselman Couple of good shots of me at StackOverflow DevDays: http://bit.ly/3oRnYF and http://bit.ly/3c86rB

r @wilshipley you have to admit they have nowhere to go but up. Is it even physically possible for WinMobile 7 to be *worse* than before?

Mozilla Raindrop! "We're Slightly Less Confusing Than Google Wave!"(tm)

necessity is the mother of .. er.. invention. USA! U S A! YOU ESS AYY! http://bit.ly/9FNrN

r @jongalloway Hey, you know where *I* would like to see more fullscreen Silverlight apps? NOWHERE.

"Oregon, in general, is a pretty Caucasian place, he said." http://is.gd/4wewY

ok, you jokers, here's an actual link to at least one rickroll halloween costume http://is.gd/4we9b

did anyone do the "rickroll" halloween costume last year?

rt @loydcase the Windows 7 Whopper (Japan only): http://bit.ly/2WfjwS [me: aaaAAAA!]

I can't deal with Chrome themes or Windows 7 themes... at all. Give me plain, simple, clean, and uncluttered. kthxbye

TODAY IS INTERNATIONAL CAPS LOCK DAY. SHOUT AWAY!! http://capslockday.com/

Opera: the browser so buggy, it makes you actually pine for good old IE6.

"if this is gonna be that kind of party, I'm gonna stick my.. " http://is.gd/4vctG

@_thematt why don't you ask 37signals the same question? http://bit.ly/2dUKg

LEGO: the only brand that can make Robin within Batman games acceptable.

Unicode smileys look perfect in IE8. And in Safari 4/Win. I told you, the OS does font rendering.

Also, I'm sorry your OS sucks. My condolences. :)

r @jzy @jeannicolas here's what you're supposed to be seeing with proper typography support (works in Safari4/Win) http://is.gd/4uyfQ

r @jzy @nathanbowers the irony here is that typography is provided by the OS and Safari 4 can't even render unicode smileys correctly, lol

rt @jzy a must visit. "Learning Something Every Day" - http://qbnvg.tk

rt @loydcase Interesting results from World of Goo "pick your own price" experiment http://bit.ly/1E4ujM

r @simucal if we have a SO question with more than 30 answers, it's kind of a failed question already.. so limited utility.

are you ready for some foootbaaaa.. er, hex-core desktop CPUs? http://is.gd/4ummB

I like to think of Stack Overflow as a kindler, gentler Skinner box

r @oldmanuk seriously? How many lines of text have you read on a monitor in your lifetime? How many "books" is that? Ok then.

Kindle app for PC/Mac would *kill*. I mean it would slay, murderize, fold, spindle, and mutilate ... er, the Kindle. Whoops.

If you can't identify at least ONE of the programmers interviewed in Coders at Work, you aren't a programmer, you're a dumbass.

these ebook readers are so dead once somebody ships a decent netbook style tablet. I would say Apple, but $$$ here.

rt @controlbreak 42 geek furniture items: http://bit.ly/3s7gev

r @anthropic the Laws Have Changed video is based on Luis Buñuel’s Simon of the Desert http://thefaceknife.org/?p=19

r @wilshipley unicode faces look correct in Safari 4/win. BEHOLD THE IMMENSE POWER OF WINDOWS DEBEN!!!1!

amusing unicode face craziness http://bit.ly/3UoiyL

the game Rock Band was my musical introduction to The New Pornographers, then I got a little obsessed http://is.gd/4txQn

in the UK? stand-up comedy benefit for Bletchley Park -- http://www.boffoonery.com/

rt @iA @jzy I want that CSI Photoshop plugin http://i.imgur.com/WyoOL.jpg

you know, @siracusa had it right. iPhone is now the Windows model. "I can't use a different OS, all the best apps are on Windows!"

Playing the entire 16 minute Abbey Road medley is one of the best music experiences you can have in a game. http://bit.ly/ZFqcC

rt @NathanBowers Apple has never made a non-godawful mouse. Will the 37th time be the charm?

looking at sponsoring LOPSA ( http://lopsa.org/ ) for http://serverfault.com

rt @omarshahine Google Android is a copy of the Microsoft Smartphone business model. Why do people think it's going to be more successful?

there's a lot of real-human-being farmed spam out there now, that's what I'm saying. A *lot*. Way more than 2 years ago.

I am now *forced* to use Akismet (distributed bayesian) in addition to Recaptcha (human verification) on blog.stackoverflow.com

rt @mfloryan Listening to podcast by @codinghorror @spolsky today made me change my thinking about recruiting people and searching for work

new Flight of the Conchords album only $5 today on Amazon MP3! Awesome, just bought it. http://is.gd/4sQyb

I hereby declare today Queen + Abbey Road day http://is.gd/4sPQH http://is.gd/4sPQt

Shut Up Woman, Get On My Horse. PG-13. http://www.shutupwomangetonmyhorse.com/

@codinghorror At funerals they should change to Papyrus. It's a much more serious font.

"At our church, the parish administrator demands that anything displayed on the screens be Comic Sans EVEN AT FUNERALS!!"

#devdays Hanselman repeatedly says we are "advanced". Don't believe his lies!

Got to meet one of the Beyond Compare devs, and a totally sweet BC tshirt!! #devdays

At #devdays getting my Python on

@codinghorror "Literary Machines" is a dense web of prophetic near-gibberish

The best use for Microsoft Surface yet: playing D&D. http://bit.ly/2J6WZD

Boarding bus to #devdays sf, I will miss @Spolsky keynote, oh noes! :)

you know what's awesome? reading a programming book and recognizing one of the people in it from Stack Overflow. http://is.gd/4qpuE

I promise my #devdays SF presentation today will be at *least* 20% less sucky than my LA one!

Ted Nelson: "Of course it [Xanadu] is real. You know it's real because it crashes."

The iPhone Rock Band app is now live in the US for $9.99 via iTunes! http://twitpic.com/m3e84

rt @jwz Trying to find positive review or bio of Brokencyde for @dnalounge calendar. Not sure a nice word has ever been written about them.

r @timbray I go directly from the microwave to the fridge. Dude cookin' at its finest.

r @jzy forget women and Ugg boots, what is it with the DAMN SPAMMERS and Ugg boots. Either way they need to die.

Users never read anything you put on the screen. Still true, can point to live examples weekly. http://is.gd/4p2EV

"we start believing now that we can be who we are" http://bit.ly/3ER2i

epic stackoverflow team fake plastic rock jam session with @betsyphd @jarrod_dixon @superdalgas (feat: gay bar)

r @nathanbowers per Stephen Colbert: people tell me I'm a PC, and I believe them, because I can resize windows from any side

Jindle app: download 100s of books, all read by Louisiana governor Bobby Jindle in his cloyingly annoying, ladylike, sing-song voice.

r @Scobleizer Stack Overflow parties aren't nerdy! See for yourself: http://is.gd/4onAm

wow, so Dell is really going forward with a phone. Can't see anything going wrong there. Nope.

rt @betsyphd it's @rockhardawesome 's first keyboard. And so it begins... http://twitpic.com/lvuv1

most awesome Rock Band iPhone teaser video http://bit.ly/148AG6

heterosexual male? not after watching http://is.gd/4nksu and http://is.gd/4nktI . YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED

Person with the #devdays ssid "JeffJumpedShark", I see you, and your hilarity has been duly noted

#devdays participant just told me the conference would be better if I was replaced by @migueldeicaza - you're right!

I had forgotten that each #devdays speaker gets their own intro music. Guess what mine is? http://bit.ly/nGWel

rt @jarrod_dixon one of Master Thespian Kilmer's best parts. http://bit.ly/zPcOl

r @Encosia I still love the Ergotron LX monitor arms, recommended! http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000959.html

At #tacozone with the inimitable @nathanbowers getting our truckatarian diet on!

Pingdom says Stack Overflow is back! Apologies for the outage.