God help me, I've actually begun to prefer the fancy curly “quotes” over the plain ASCII "quotes". I blame @gruber

r @siracusa Apple could fix a lot of their "problems" if they stopped being such secretive dicks about everything. http://is.gd/1l4iF

when it comes to software 'edition' marketing, it's "don't make me think... UNLESS YOU'RE THINKING ABOUT HOW MUCH YOU NEED TO PAY US!"

r @twoscomplement tell me about it. I sing sad cowboy songs to console myself. We'll have to upgrade to Kenny Loggins edition.

db 48GB memory upgrade complete. Punchline: Windows Server 2008 Standard limits us to 32GB. http://www.sadtrombone.com/

I am altogether too excited about this 48 GB db server memory upgrade. I mean, it's no Jonas Brothers concert or anything.

"if you impregnate 4 women who all give birth on the same day, you can walk around while you're on fire and not care." http://is.gd/1kXfM

wow, Yahtzee's Sims 3 review was kind of.. disturbing.. actually. http://is.gd/1kX0P

"I ran 2 games, listened to music, browsed the web watching YouTube videos and downloaded files all at the same time!" need 6 cores for that

"This model reinforces our belief that packaged goods will capture the majority of game purchases for the next 10 years." http://is.gd/1jWJk

By the powers of Greyskull, it's Bollywood He-Man!! http://bit.ly/ynSVZ

can a lady person *please* make romance explosion with @wilshipley so my tender brain is not assaulted by his leering transgender tweets?

r @chrisweiss whoooa there! Metric system? You'll get my ounces and gallons when you pry them out of my cold, dead hands! http://is.gd/1jK1y

rt @cannonade "If only we all lived in UTC +0, it would make my life so much easier."

all you UKers who live in UTC +0 are dirty, filthy, stinking timezone *cheaters*.

it's interesting how intellisense and match-as-you-type biases naming towards "similar things must begin with the same characters"

Didn't google change their OpenID support recently (~4 months?), to better support the OpenID standard? Anyone have the link?

why does the Konqueror browser still exist? Just to collectively piss us off?

"I'm 100% full blooded Korean, meaning I have been gifted with unparallel talent to master any video game" http://is.gd/1jBSq

was able to find a quote I remembered in the text of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest courtesy of Google Book Search. Thank you Google.

this "less css" thing that @jongalloway linked is interesting. http://lesscss.org/

yet another reason New Zealand = awesome http://bit.ly/13Wmy3

you know what's impossible to crowdsource? taste.

can anyone explain to me the following: http://com.com , http://org.org , and http://net.net ? Also, I seriously need to get a life.

r @salmonmoose 8gb was a very common motherboard memory limit pre-Core i7. Think "now it's triple channel"..

rt @havremunken "Just got a 12GB desktop machine. It's like a forest of VMs, and everyone is singing and dancing." I HATE YOU

kinda wanting 12 GB of memory on my desktop now. That's the one reason to upgrade from Core 2 to Core i7 IMO.

Ruby Enterprise Edition? What's next, Ruby Home Basic and Ruby Ultimate? http://www.rubyenterpriseedition.com/

r @kathysierra I always found "Think Different" ads *incredibly* pretentious. At least the Mac vs. PC ads are funny (and Hodgman = awesome)

rt @jzy the best banner Ad evar?? http://yoono.com/tjGDAu5

and if you don't like any of those logos (!?), dig through the submissions http://is.gd/1iICZ -- or submit your own ideas!

poll: which logo works best for superuser.com? http://bit.ly/Nb3Jz

congratulations @splattne on being the first serverfault user to reach 10k rep! http://serverfault.com/users/45/splattne

r @zedshaw your hacker news score is higher than mine? I can fix it!! http://is.gd/1iFEZ

"How Can I Fix My Marriage?" http://is.gd/1iF7i (you can FIX ANYTHING at this site!!)

"Thinking about Chinese smoking statistics is like trying to think about the limits of space." http://www.slate.com/id/2221438/

Godwin's Law of Parenting: sure, your baby is cute, but so was baby Adolf Hitler. Just sayin'.

Kent Beck says speaking gigs no longer pay. http://bit.ly/Yjd4f

r @nathanbowers you've made all the Iran supporters very angry.. and you wouldn't like them when they're angry!! http://is.gd/1izez

r @marcoarment thanks man! out of curiosity -- how does Tumblr generate revenue? (I am a *big* fan of http://www.tumblr.com by the way)

r dfab_con AdSense TOS prohibits posting cpm, only gross revenue

Lol, signed up for payment gateway merchant acct and got these SWEET stickers! http://twitpic.com/8szzj

Our Google AdSense CPMs are so low they kinda make me want to cut myself

hey, look what the postman left on my step just now -- 48 mother lovin' gigabytes of memory!

r @DenisDollfus are meta-problems more interesting than problems? Let's call a meeting to discuss that. http://is.gd/1i2Ew

@gortok uncertain about the value of the meta? perhaps you should ask this as a question on meta.stackoverflow.com? :)

Meta is Murder: at some level, meta-discussion cuts into time you could be using to, y'know, BUILD STUFF and SOLVE PROBLEMS.

Remember the TV show Airwolf? unfortunately, Jan-Michael Vincent doesn't. http://bit.ly/chj5w

"I've never read so much crap in my life as sifting through the garbage that was the 'Free Energy' file." http://is.gd/1hN4i

sold my BetaBrite sign on eBay. Confirmed winning bidder shipping address is 1600 Ampitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043. Familiar?

r @betsyphd that twitter book should be exactly 140 pages http://twitpic.com/8pos7

note that previous video http://is.gd/1hoKo is amazing when run as your desktop background in DreamScene http://is.gd/1hq6V

"a famous person has died, we go live to somewhere tangentially related" http://picturesforsadchildren.com/blog/famous.png

this artist video http://is.gd/1hoCj just blew my mind-hole. direct quicktime link: http://is.gd/1hoKo

hyphenated site vs. non-hyphenated site.. FIGHT! http://is.gd/1gY9P

"The big problem we ran into, actually, was meta-discussion overwhelming the channel." http://is.gd/1gRup

meta.stackoverflow.com launches. But where will you discuss the discussion about the discussion??? http://is.gd/1gKsv

apparently @miffthefox did not understand how awesome @migueldeicaza 's mono team is. Please report to Novell HQ for re-education..

@gortok We can discuss it on the podcast. I don't think there's much overlap, actually.. hardcore DIY vs. one-click hosted

r @ohunt just for you, I installed Safari 4! SunSpider: Safari 4 = 568 ms, Chrome 2, 606 ms.

if we open-source stackoverflow (eventually), I'd say priority #1 is making sure our code works with Mono -- right @migueldeicaza ?

if you have time to read 20 page phpBB threads, I'd like to gently and respectfully remind you that YOU WILL BE DEAD FOREVER.

re: discussion in phpBB. you guys are doing it wrong, and by wrong, I mean inefficiently. You could 3x-4x your throughput. Speed matters.

r @ohunt I totally respect Safari, but it's really a Mac thing; just too weird UI-wise on Windows. plus, Chrome = WebKit = so, everyone wins

in any given phpBB thread there are 3, maybe 5 responses worth my time to read. Push those to the top, screw the rest.

r @mstum people don't *want* discussion. You read all 20+ pages of a phpBB "discussion"? Is that even remotely realistic?

wow, Chrome 2.0.x is almost 2x faster than Firefox 3.5 RC3 in SunSpider. Chrome FTW!

I now officially hate phpBB era forums. Almost worth releasing Stack Overflow as open source just to KILL THEM ALL. Such a bad UI paradigm.

trying firefox 3.5 RC3. sunspider : 3.0 = 2.6 sec , 3.5 = 1.05 sec

r @migueldeicaza oh sure, someone "broke" into your car and "stole" your brown Zune. (full disclosure: I actually liked that color)

No "hunt the wumpus" app for iPhone? I am deeply disappointed in ALL OF YOU.

so @jarrod_dixon is visiting next month, and we are TOTALLY doing a Stack Overflow developer auto-tune http://www.vimeo.com/3718294

"The only intuitive user interface is the nipple. Everything else is learned." If only they would replace everything else with nipples!

getting ready to set up some daily automated LogParser queries for IIS7. Anyone got some cool/insightful iis queries they want to share?

I love my sennheiser headphones, but this is the THIRD cable I've been through in ~5 years. wtf? they develop intermittent connection..

"what browser do you use?" "Google." http://bit.ly/13yuyn

"one of the most testicle-threatening little bikes I've ridden" http://bit.ly/bc6Lj

Latawnya, the Naughty Horse, Learns to Say "No" to Drugs http://www.flickr.com/photos/brampitoyo/sets/72157600591501224/

r @nathanbowers this is why you can't stress out about who's following you on Twitter http://twit-ha.tumblr.com/page/3

We've all wished our coworkers into an ejection seat at some point. Now you can. http://bit.ly/UAtXj

r @jamesmarcusbach uh.. "African-Canadian"? Is that a thing now? http://is.gd/1fJil

I just realized: problem with Linq2SQL is that you're trying to abstract away a db that has some HIGHLY irregular/unusual behaviors

@evilbobby I didn't even know you could upgrade (!)

man, pandora.com's Flash font rendering makes my eyes bleed. So bad. Also, not being able to skip more than 5 times = teh suck.

look out for the Schlitz Malt Liquor Bull! http://bit.ly/wZcpL

Rocky Balboa USB accessories. Awesome? Or Awesomely disturbing? I say, both. http://is.gd/1fmy9

hey, @cyberg_ is looking for a copy of Peopleware (awesome) in Sweden and can't find it. Can anyone help?

per tag counts, Linux is beating Windows on Server Fault :) http://serverfault.com/tags

r @grumpydev forgotten Atwood's Law already? Any application that can be written in JavaScript, *will* eventually be written in JavaScript.

I appreciate what Android is trying to do, but I feel it has about as much chance as Linux on the desktop. Can't get excited about it.

so there might be actual Threading in JavaScript now via "Web Workers" proposed standard? http://is.gd/1e0Wx

r @miffthefox thank you for noticing that indeed I already blogged about the locked file issue. my point: should be *default functionality*

rt @grork "Windows 7 now tells you why the file is locked -- specifically the process thats locked it -- when you try to delete." nice!!

phew, so looks like I qualified for the "Enthusiast" / "woot!" badge on my own site. (30 days of consecutive visits)

I would give my left elbow for an operating system that could actually tell me WHY a file is locked, and by whom. Good lord.

total made this month on twitter: $19k. total made from 30k record sales: $0. http://is.gd/1dGCf

mapping physical locations in time; nifty http://vimeo.com/4556951

most tattoos are valuable public service announcements of poor judgment. others are just plain WTFs http://i39.tinypic.com/20sbqzb.jpg

michael jackson died, but the real casualties are apparently Twitter and Teh Facebooks

I cain't love no one that don't have no twitter account http://gunshowcomic.com/d/20081103.html