weird story about Abuse (the old game) and iPhone scammers http://bit.ly/1ukidj

apparently @nathanbowers has not learned that Fashion is Danger. http://bit.ly/3MF5le

rt @mcobrien my mum does this all the time: "Aunt Emily not well, may not last long, lol xxx"

you all shut your damn dirty pieholes about how great District 9 is. I got a baby, man. I can't see movies any more!

vector clock WANNNNTT http://www.timefracture.org/vectclk.html

r @shanselman you got it, it's the Art Lebedev Verbarius clock. So fun. http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/verbarius/

In what alternate reality does LOL mean "Lots of Love"? http://twitpic.com/dy827

More evidence of my clock fetish http://twitpic.com/dy7p3

"You have to do it yourself. That's what the great masters and mistresses have been saying ever since time began." http://eqi.org/jl2.htm

reading that 1980 John Lennon Playboy interview, he referenced this "gem" from McCartney. I had blissfully forgotten it. http://is.gd/2hspf

does anyone actually *like* Yoko Ono? She's artsy, yes, but in all the most annoying possible ways.

this TWIT transcript is the funniest thing I've read all week (pw: ewok.adventure) http://is.gd/2hhzY

mr @rockhardawesome is hanging out with me today. He's the best video game ever!

I recorded a new podcast with @shanselman on website optimization! http://bit.ly/12bSur

"Not technically great -- none of us are technical musicians. None of us could read music. None of us can write it." -- John Lennon

full Beatles: Rock Band setlist confirmed. Warm up your 3 mics! http://bit.ly/2YIx6j

curse you @stevedrees for spoiling my next blog entry, Top X Blankety Buzzword Blankety!

rt @dozba "Crawling web content is like touring a museum of failure."

Public Service Announcement: do not click on links titled "awesome picture of necrotic spider bite"

Firefox 3.5.x: one instance, peak working set 1.3gb. Chrome: 12 instances, 556mb.

best feature of open source? Being able to tell people that if they don't like it, hey, they can fix it themselves. Nicest f**k you ever.

I demand that you view @jarrod_dixon 's twitter profile as it captures his personality so perfectly: http://twitter.com/jarrod_dixon

r @jmbucknall well, if we can interpret "quoted in the Economist" as "one blogger said.." then yes, I was! :)

Last year one blogger declared Swoopo was “about as close to pure, distilled evil in a business plan as I’ve ever seen”. http://is.gd/2g33z

starting to wonder if all software pricing isn't a "race to the bottom" where open source is the floor. Gravity's a bitch.

Digsby: only 90% evil http://bit.ly/18sZOW

r @sarahmei absolutely, there will be airings of Beyonce's "Single Ladies" video at Dev Days http://bit.ly/vVPZn

Opera is like the honors student who occasionally snaps and goes on a random killing spree. I'll take IE6 "special needs" over that any day

rt @waxpancake I want every one of these Know Your Meme shirts. http://bit.ly/6rufL

have I mentioned that I despise Opera today? If not, just throwing that out there. So much more problematic than even IE6.

On the Effectiveness of Aluminium Foil Helmets: An Empirical Study http://people.csail.mit.edu/rahimi/helmet/

I would love to meet someone at Google who worked on Google Answers, and tell me the story of why it was killed off.

is there any authoritative source on the actual benefit of ECC memory? seems like voodoo to me, based on the Google results.

happy birthday, Iron Giant. http://bit.ly/1ajwde

yeah whatever i'm on IMDB too. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1794353/ also, check out my music video!! http://is.gd/2esbn

Miguel de Icaza YOU SO FAMOUS!! http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0208899/

the podcast wherein I declare PHP the new COBOL http://bit.ly/3FpKEn

r @wilshipley rich people complaining about health care? say it ain't so! http://img194.imageshack.us/img194/1188/luckyduckycartoon.png

The first 3 albums scheduled for RB: Beatles DLC release are “Rubber Soul,” “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” and “Abbey Road.”

"We’re on the precipice of a culture shift around how the mass market experiences music" http://is.gd/2e7yy

r @davidcollantes the http://doctype.com team is feverishly working on OpenID support as I type this! (right? right??)

"We keep our commitments, even when our commitments are, like, totally retarded." -- Dean Hachamovitch http://is.gd/2diDp

the 20 worst games of all time. http://www.seanbaby.com/nes/egm20.htm

say hello to the newest member of the League of (web) Justice: Doctype.com http://bit.ly/2JPGB8

wow, "insert media" is totally busticated in the Wordpress 2.8.3 I just updated to. Good thing 2.8.4 just came out. I guess.

I am, like, FIVE megabytes of man, at MOST. So inadequate. </shame>

chippendales online "powered by 10,000 megabytes of man" I *swear* this came up in an unrelated search. http://www.chippendales.com/forums/

nominated for best use of Sex Machine in a video, ever http://bit.ly/oZK4F

wow, Cuil's bot managed to pull down 31mb in only 706 hits to our site. How many Cuils does that rate?

just played The Who's "Magic Bus" in Rock Band 2, and now I am not sure that song is actually about a 'bus'.

rt @jennyholzer CHILDREN ARE THE MOST CRUEL OF ALL

VRML LOL!

r @prestomation Is that commentary on facebook's new acquisition? It really exists http://www.friendface.org/ (lol, watch the video)

now here's a game with a control scheme designed from the get-go for the iPhone. That works. http://is.gd/2cae5

FriendFace!

The plus side of Apple often being arrogant, secretive jerks: at least they *force* their users to upgrade. http://is.gd/2bCNq

"Virtual XP Mode" in Windows 7 is quite polished, I expected generic Virtual PC but it's super streamlined. And it supports USB!

this whole "touch only" paradigm on the iPhone really requires games *written* with that control scheme in mind http://is.gd/2bdID

MACHETE! http://bit.ly/RnsVW

babies smell good. They're like freshly baked bread. Well, you know what I mean.

just referred to Mark Russinovich as "dreamy". Questioning own sexuality. But seriously the guy is like a male model.

r @chriscarpinello it's a LOT of stickers. 40,000 of 'em. I've used http://websticker.com/ for years, great quality, recommended!

just ordered ~$3,500 worth of stickers for the SO trilogy (and some for our justice league member @howtogeek )

In praise of The Baroness http://is.gd/2aJlQ

rt @hmxcasey D.R.E.A.M. - Doughnuts Rule Everything Around Me

So much time and so little to do. Wait a minute. Strike that. Reverse it.

whatever! I'm SO WASTED right now!!1!

rt @mstum and on each SO question about it, you get that xkcd WinME cartoon as answer, even though being wasted doesn't explain WinME.

clarification: I do not object to being stoned/wasted, just obsession with and endless discussion of it. Yes, we get SO q's on this.

I will never understand the human fascination with being stoned/wasted. Great, go do whatever, just freakin' shut up about it already.

@drylight meh, Excitable Boy is overrated. go deeper into the catalog

@drylight "I'd rather feel bad than not feel anything at all"

"Enjoy every sandwich." http://bit.ly/KBVAT

Yahoo! Search: favicon.ico is 9% of all page views. Watch yer pixels! http://is.gd/29IBE

some Stack Overflow family speed improvements, documented http://bit.ly/g3REJ

"Apple’s iPhone accounted for only 8% of handset industry revenues but 32% of profits in the first half 2009" http://is.gd/29yiO

my cause is just, my will is strong, and my gun is very, very large. http://bit.ly/vv9aU

"I don’t believe there’s a teenager in the US who cares about The Beatles: Rock Band" http://is.gd/29xvb

r @wilshipley just like most people don't "need" a Porsche to commute to work every day, I guess.

r @wilshipley I dunno, there's been a fundamental sea change in computing. Do you *need* a $1k device to use Teh Facebooks every day?

rt @coolcsh Adobe "has a lot to learn from, of all places, Microsoft." http://tinyurl.com/l5pl8t

who is "The Stig"? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stig

r @spatacoli the monitor arms are here, they're great, I still use 'em at home! http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000959.html

"If Chuck Norris needs software, he will ask Jon Skeet to write it."

say hello to my leetle (cookieless) friend! http://sstatic.net/

"According to the NADA [2009], the average price of a new car sold in the United States is $28,400."

why do decisions made *only weeks ago* seem like they were made while we were apparently high on crack? I blame me.

"I'm very important. I have many leather-bound books and my apartment smells of rich mahogany."

rt @Carnage4LifeTold my wife Apple has 91% of the >$1000 PC market. She said it's like saying Rolls Royce owns 91% of the >$500K car market

I feel like half our c# code is testing for nulls and empty and so forth -- such a colossal waste of time.

no faygo? ICP are a bunch of posers!! http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2009/0710091contest1.html

"Boobs in advertising" would make an excellent blog -- Pesto

r @brunomlopes the ultimate upgrade http://is.gd/28eAE

spoiler alert: the end of Upgrade Complete was transcendental http://img32.imageshack.us/img32/1762/upgradeforeverwinnar.png

r @brunomlopes I am not entirely sure what playing http://tr.im/w0MJ means BUT IT WAS AWESOME!!!1!

r @wdr1 that game is insane.. and yet.. strangely compelling http://bit.ly/M1782

Donnie, Marie & Vader http://www.joblo.com/donny-marie-vader

Ice-T weighs in on the Mac vs PC debate http://bit.ly/yDU1w

another week, another WordPress release to upgrade to...

@kosgrove http://bit.ly/12iiN8