"Also, please don't encourage the start of *more* goof-off sites on the internet, there's enough of them already. "

rt @jwz deems the Pre dead. Killed by corporate idiocy as usual. http://is.gd/3LlZt

Light Peak: the next USB? http://bit.ly/3XppAR

fantastic, now I have Bell's Palsy symptoms. Nobody told me having a kid in daycare germ world would be life-altering in quite this way.

r @simonw Pipes is crawling HTML when we explicitly told it not to in robots.txt. Verified logs. Result: perma-ban from all IP ranges.

r @mattcutts Steve Martin is great (though some of his later films, notsomuch) http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001046.html

oh look, Yahoo Pipes doesn't respect robots.txt. I am SHOCKED! (ip block ban time)

r @dozba reddit was hacked AGAIN? That's like the sixth time now. Google it.

rt @jongalloway Zune HD: the best portable media player ever made, but a platform without a purpose. http://u.nu/3dpc3

rt @jzy @retinart 11 Most Ironically Banned Books Of All Time http://bit.ly/QWc9v

rt @loydcase Modern cars are designed for survivability. http://bit.ly/H35Wv

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still waiting for Microsoft to pull head out of its collective ass w/r/t OpenID.

just ran stats on OpenID providers on SO. As usual, it's Google's world, we just live in it: 56% Google.

you are likely to be eaten by a grue. a rappin' grue. http://bit.ly/KsVi3

I am stunned how few analysts understand just how dominant Apple is going to be in the phone space. http://is.gd/3HDVj

when it comes to gaming, I am down with plastic maracas and bongos, but I do draw the line at plastic fishing controllers.

rt @mattcutts "Some people have a way with words....some people....not have way." --Steve Martin

nifty Stack Overflow tag trends http://bit.ly/oK2UR

caro's roulette system #1. http://bit.ly/kQyop

Which is more boring, code golf or actual golf? YOU DECIDE http://bit.ly/13HPWJ

"[we] have played too many notes and written too many chords and just tried to fill up spaces with .. too much" http://is.gd/3GnMm

you're going to watch a clip of "performance art" and reply to me that it was boring? which part of "performance art" didn't you understand?

r @wilshipley it's LIVING COLOUR, poser.

web.config access allowed just for curiosities' sake, but this is clearly a "cure is far worse than the disease" type of deal.

I cannot figure out a way to get /questions/tagged/web.config to work; even Phil Haack's suggestion (map a MIME type) didn't work.

failed software demo as performance art http://bit.ly/3miD5l

"most *SINGLE* [forthcoming ATI video cards] will be able to drive 3 ultra-high-res displays of various types" http://is.gd/3FOYo

rt @SohTanaka 20 Classic Hip Hop Album Covers Recreated in #LEGO http://bit.ly/OeuW8

rt @donpark entropy seam-based intelligent image resizing in *javascript* wow http://bit.ly/12ud95 (atwood's law in action)

r @shanselman you're a dinosaur. The desktop should NEVER be visible. Putting your pixels to work, indeed.

selling my tickets to The Nightman Cometh show tonight in SF. Screw you antibiotic resistant ear infection.

rt @kevindente the aptly named "Big Baby", 19.2 lbs and 24.4 inches at birth. http://is.gd/3DCnJ

why in the world would anyone WANT their email in real time? Because they're masochists who secretly hate themselves?

every day is the same oppressive tunnel of pain. I want off this ride

I hereby propose that the word "Meetings" be replaced with "BS-A-Thon"

I always forget how great the Kinks are http://bit.ly/NGUJP

Wy Oh Dee Ayy yoda. http://bit.ly/eRPhQ

the best defense against piracy is also the best defense against open source competition. discuss.

Pinball Hall of Fame: Williams in hi-def is officially *awesome*, giant thumbs up http://is.gd/3A3pc

"I'm sorry, but you can't be a Canadian, because you didn't apologize first."

to have been lain so low by a virus and then bacteria really puts me in my evolutionary place. Also, no fair ganging up on me.

animals who can't drink properly 1 http://is.gd/3xM0s 2 http://is.gd/3xM27

OMG YOU GUYS! Flight of the Conchords in Rock Band!!!!!1! http://bit.ly/4juTgK

I had forgotten how excruciatingly painful ear infections were. Thanks, flu!

"Before the Internet came along, most Americans never wrote anything, ever, that wasn't a school assignment." http://is.gd/3vmSO

bring it on @wilshipley ; in fact, I believe this matter can only be settled through a 2 player round of Medieval Madness.

r @makerbeam indeed, MakerBeam is far more useful than Moby Dick in Emoji (or dare I say it, 8-bit Miles Davis) http://is.gd/3sSd5

Saw District 9 a few days ago. Great movie, but without a doubt some of the finest gun pornography ever put on film.

r @troygilbert is right the more relevant stat is divorces per 100 married couples (not total pop) http://bit.ly/Rgbc4

I actually learned something from a YouTube political video comment: The US has the highest divorce rate in the world http://is.gd/3sIca

Tonight @betsyphd made me watch Glee and I ... I ... liked it

I feel compelled to follow @migueldeicaza and I have no idea why

EPIC "goating"! rt @osbornm: For those who know him Eilon (coworker) thought it was take you goat to work day... http://is.gd/3qWqd

interesting browser vs. laptop battery life comparison http://is.gd/3qN1n

virus writers go open source http://bit.ly/16ECyQ

things the world didn't need, part 57,671,220: Lego Iggy Pop. http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/60519

ultimate video dating montage line: "I'm interested in most phases of data processing." I'm not sure even rule 34 applies to that

hilarious and vaguely disturbing 80's video dating montage. http://is.gd/3qIps

EDGE is a crime against data transmission rates

another satisfied customer! pay it forward! rt @pseale STACK OVERFLOW IS MAGIC!!!!!! UNICORNS!!!! Q 108650! I could hug someone

rt @timbray Canadian provincial mottos: http://bit.ly/GveOA

moral? banks are evil. http://bit.ly/1YPUt

every time I walk by a Verizon store, I have an urge to silently hold up my iPhone and give everyone inside the finger. APPLE RULES!!

doctor's office advice for flu: "stay home, rest, liquids" five days in, no improvement, new symptoms, more pain. I'm coming in.

r @ryanbaldwin wrt self-accepted answers on Stack Overflow see http://is.gd/3q0nh and http://is.gd/3q0nZ

help Stack Exchange with colors http://bit.ly/sPHFp

rt @Aimee_B_Loved: I know I'm not a cougar yet but I'm well on my way. I'm pre-cougescent.

oh, right the "wow cataclysm beta" is a phishing scam -- of course! domain ending in .cc is dead giveaway. I hadn't even looked.

someone signed team@stackoverflow.com up for the WOW Cataclysm beta test and it got in! w00t!

A wee ethics conundrum http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11653255

According to eyewitness reports, he collapsed mid guitar solo. His last words were "ain't that a bitch" http://is.gd/3oh1Q

"Given a choice between dancing pigs and security, users will pick dancing pigs every time."

Dear Michael Cera: when you play the same. exact. character. in every single movie you're in, are you really .. acting?

Ghost Busters (1954) http://bit.ly/zhUp8

I didn't realize Squidoo was a top 200 website. Like alltop, it's kind of a blight on Godin's rep. http://www.squidoo.com/squidoo_sucks

podcast on c# 4.0 with the ineffable @jonskeet http://bit.ly/29rRbU

well, SSD upgrade definitely delivers. Noticeably snappier than the (fast) 300gb Velociraptor I had in there before.

I got the 128gb Crucial M225 SSD -- reviews say it is as fast as the Intel, and cheaper.

after I installed my SSD as c: my d: drive started FREAKING out (clicks, craziness). Had to move it to a different IDE controller.

I hope you know that this will go down on your permanent record http://bit.ly/K1Uuz

no, not swine flu. My temperature 98.6-ish; no coughing or runny nose. I have strep throat symptoms, more or less. (but no white dots)

day 4 of flu, no improvement. Apparently my immune system sucks the big one.

rt @mattcutts Google acquires reCAPTCHA: http://bit.ly/177Vp1 Yay! And here's a captcha cartoon for you: http://bit.ly/eQRDw

you got your Battletech in my Cthulu! No, you got your Cthulu in my Battletech!! http://www.cthulhutech.com/

r @wilshipley I know this will cause many to question my californian-ness, but IMO, avocado = nature's green mayo. Nasty stuff.

rt @dwf DON'T LET DR MARIO TOUCH YOUR PRIVATE PLACES HE IS NOT A REAL DOCTOR

I have a web md from Dr. Googles and he says I have strep throat minus the fever. So, viral infection then. CALLING DR MARIO!

rt @dan_schmidt: statistical analysis of what to say and not say in online dating http://bit.ly/MHIST

Jones Soda gets all D&Dey on us http://www.myjones.com/limited/wizards

Wii price cut, finally. man! http://bit.ly/16oGXu

I am annoyed that people are "correcting" my spelling of babby in the re-tweets. NEVER FORGET! http://is.gd/3hLYN

rt @irvingreid for a while I was calling my child "toddler zero"

the hidden cost of daycare: I have been sicker in the last month than in the last 3 years of my life. Need babby hazmat suit.

the secret of self-employment: half the time you have no idea what you're supposed to be working on

@dozba crawling is for worms

rt @haacked Spark creator @loudej is now a Microsoft employee after a long wait! http://bit.ly/2PG8Ww

from @deadprogrammer the Blue Thunder watch http://bit.ly/42bpjo

http://www.dudegoogle.com/ -- pretty much what it says there

MonoDevelop , iPhone .NET Hello World example w/screenshots http://bit.ly/b5sIA