remembering the time I forced @cisellis to duet with me on Starship's "We Built This City" in SingStar. So bad it wraps back around to good.

rt @markhibberd "i thought microformat == nasty hack was just a given" yeah, that's my first take as well. Embedding a data island=cleaner.

mystified why UserVoice feels it has to tell me what % of votes on an item are "fraudulent votes". Just remove them! TMI!

hCard overloads the class="" attribute? Nasty, imo. http://is.gd/tpEV

why do we have a checkin with the comment "OH YEAH"? Apparently the people I work with were raised by wolves.

(I think iPhone is Apple's most important product ever. Fully intend to join iPhone v3 bandwagon this summer. But a netbook, it ain't.)

"sales of netbooks will grow nearly 80% this year to 21 million units, while overall PC sales decline a record 11.9%" I. LOVE. NETBOOKS.

clarification: yahoo and live search combined are 0.5% of all incoming traffic, but at least 2-3x that bandwidth consumed by their crawling

The Brown Corporation http://www.thebrowncorporation.com/

just updated raid backplane firmware (backplanes have firmware?) and installed new adaptec driver dated 3/3/2009 for our database server..

if you want these domains (for personal use) email me *today*: fellowhackers.com ; corecursion.com; shiftleft1.com; understandrecursion.com

still digging the blekko ambient cluster health viz http://tinyurl.com/d49bos

man, our branching experience with subversion 1.6 has been.. painful. Still finding misc. code that got lost in the merge.

you don't know me, but you make me so happy http://tinyurl.com/bvbtpp

adding rel="canonical" support to stackoverflow.com http://tinyurl.com/b9saag

rock paper scissors lizard spock http://tinyurl.com/9vtmwl

@kathysierra remember when you complained that US culture didn't see horses as masculine, while others do? Here's why.. http://is.gd/tfFW

OMG you guys, I LOVE HORSES!!! http://www.crowdstorm.co.uk/upload/images/product/188/PID1818851sAVdXVaSL.jpg

"I can't believe that Bryce prefers Van Patten's card to mine." http://tinyurl.com/w7d5n

rt @timbray "take him to.. Detroit!" http://is.gd/rgdo also for background, see http://is.gd/gFDv and http://is.gd/bsDi

reddit is painfully ugly IMO. even by programmer UI standards.

"I love the X++ versus ++X discussion." http://is.gd/tbm4

seriously, it is like Sam Kinison was reincarnated in our home. http://is.gd/tb1d

based on our 1 month old newborn, I am modifying my response to new parents from "congratuations!" to "I hope you like SCREAMING! aaAHHHH!!"

via the Sod This podcast http://www.sodthis.com/ I discovered the developers, developers, developers URL. Needs MORE! http://is.gd/taWb

shaq pwns oprah http://tinyurl.com/dmtya2

"The use of distortions may eventually be required." http://is.gd/t8I0

ever since I learned this song is coming to Rock Band, it has been in my head. Please accept song virus: http://is.gd/ta1Y

ran into another AWESOME Opera bug. <table></table>? Hell yes, make that 32781px tall. Thanks Opera!

"I tried to read 'getting things done' but i didn't get through it." http://secretgeek.net/drowning_ttd.asp

most hated tag on Stack Overflow? [stackoverflow]. I wish I had two brains so I could hate it twice as much. The first rule of.. (etc)

listening to the latest Sod This podcast. Now with 36% more cursing! http://www.sodthis.com/

R.I.P. research: "a film that premiered at the Cannes film festival to a standing ovation" http://www.snopes.com/risque/porn/chambers.asp

pants status http://tinyurl.com/2panm

"yo dawg i herd u liek selects so we put a select in ur select so you can query while you query" http://is.gd/sxPQ

"I was actually tempted to replace my msgina.dll with a Very Awesome GINA, but I thought that was going too far."

holy cow, there was a Milton from Office Space action figure? WANT http://tinyurl.com/c8q7ny

why aren't you following @dansdata already? How many hints do I have to drop here? GET WITH IT PEOPLE

rt @dansdata watchmen: byo squid http://is.gd/t5xp

we've already covered this, but speaking of auto-tune and the IT Gangsta.. http://tinyurl.com/cjarzn

wow @jzy just exposed me to IT GANGSTA, thanks man! http://www.youtube.com/user/ITgangsta

that said, if you need it now, it is hard to beat the Acer Aspire one for freakin' $242 shipped. http://is.gd/t597

I <3 netbooks. So adorable, so useful. I want one strapped to my FACE. permanently.

My Day as a Honda Cyborg http://tinyurl.com/c7jtrn

victim of unattended reboot due to forced Windows security updates. Lost my place in a bunch of stuff I was working on. How does OSX handle?

"we don't think intrusive, obnoxious copy protection will result in more sales than we lose" http://is.gd/sYC5

wow, you can move a "live" virtual machine from one host computer to another *while it is running* in the latest Hyper-V? Neat.

argh, SO user just informed us that IE6/7 will do content sniffing and render text/plain as HTML, even if it would be an exploit to do so(!)

@jonnonolan "TDD isn't about testing" OK, but why does it have the word "test" in the title? Is it the world's worst name, or what?

video.google.com was never particularly good, now it's just.. depressing. Imagine being on *that* team at the Googleplex.

"If ORM is the 'vietnam of computer science' then building your own key-value store is probably the 'Iraq of computer science'"

"Life is not about being LIKED! Life is about being EFFECTIVE!" http://tinyurl.com/4xy6e6

sometimes, when I am very upset, I like to stare into the soothing, calming profile picture of Jon Skeet. And then I feel better.

today is "blame another programmer for their mistakes day!" well, that's every day, really. And next Wednesday is your day in the box.

StackOverflow: Why do people close questions? [closed]

123456790 epoch time in action http://www.thinkgeek.com/homeoffice/lights/a7c5/action/

"Secrets are only a source of powerlessness" and THAT is why protected updates are, in a word, retarded

I vote that we replace the twitter UI text "this person has protected their updates" with "this person is a dumbass". More accurate, IMO.

"the conclusion is something that Euripides or O'Neill might recognize: an America, at every level at war with itself" http://is.gd/sNQg

inventing antigravity http://tinyurl.com/dzszv9

grandparents visiting means it is "listen to television at extreme volume" time. Also: they like Fox News and golf. Awesome.

Sometimes I doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion http://tinyurl.com/2vay7f

In the hallowed tradition of "getting a tattoo of a butt on your butt", I present: http://tinyurl.com/6ldeju

rt @secretgeek http://3mindme.com/ is a brilliant service

you know what has bad usability? the term "human computer interaction". Only robots should be using this in a sentence.

stackoverflow: now with comment flags and voting on comments http://tinyurl.com/cn2vuj

posting an xckd on a programmer forum is the equivalent of saying "man! that fat cat Garfield sure loves Lasagna and hates Mondays! hahaha!"

"spam does not follow you. send message to request." FA .. wait for it.. IL.

wtf just got my first "look at scantily clad chix" @ message on Twitter. Twitter now needs a "report this user" button.

Hot Dog Stand is the most important color scheme known to man. Discuss. http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000341.html

wow, this is the 2nd conference I've been invited to speak at that has been cancelled. Must be a rough time for conferences. Or it's just me

"Yegge always has good stuff (his last article about weed explains a lot)."

@coder32768 "I'm not sure what a suplex is" WATCH CLOSELY MY FRIEND http://is.gd/sFuk

it's weird when @rockhardawesome is not here, I miss the screaming. It's too quiet, this can't be right!

oh and that goes triple for the damn lolcats programming language.

I sweartogod I'm gonna suplex the next person who brings up Whitespace or Brainf**k in a discussion. omg the hilarity, we get it. NOW DIE!!

I think looking at APL "code" has damaged my mind. Also, if your language fails to render code in a browser.. it's doomed. http://is.gd/sEYd

on this week's podcast I joked about languages that use symbols instead of keywords. I had no idea APL actually *does*! http://is.gd/m4m5

Wikipedia is a system where the most obsessed users always win. Always. The weird thing is that in the aggregate, this system *works*.

nobody hates software more than I do. NOBODY. Can't stand the stuff.

man, Chrome is a rock compared to Firefox3. Never any weirdness, whereas FF3 weirdness is becoming a daily ritual. FF3 = the new IE7.

after months of dealing with PC LOAD LETTER rage (samsung CLP-300) just bought a new damn printer. http://is.gd/sDxO

Starlog magazine shifts to the web. http://www.bobgreenberger.com/?p=862

rt @betsyphd @codinghorror 50 years for my PhD to pay off? Now you tell me. http://sadtrombone.com/

masters/phd quote is adapted from "Debunking the Myth of a Desperate Software Labor Shortage" http://is.gd/suws

Wiimote - $45 Nunchuk - $25 Classic Controller - $25 Motionplus - $20 / that's one big kick in the Wii for a complete controller

rt @soviut I find that facebook helps me ignore people I forgot in my life.

"They found that a Master's degree takes 10 years to make up for income lost while in grad school, and a PhD takes a staggering 50 years. "

"Facebook helps you connect and share with the people in your life." Er, no, I want to share with people OUTSIDE my life, too..

china: world's biggest sausage party http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/11/world/asia/11china.html

it's totally a cliche cat cartoon, but ever so true: http://tinyurl.com/cz42yx

every week I find a new keyboard I haven't seen before. Sheesh. http://tinyurl.com/6yeexb

rt @secretgeek financial outlook: the only thing we can be certain of is continued uncertainty. Then again, we can't be sure.

history mysteries: http://tinyurl.com/cpwsar (and yes, the letters are.. uh.. interesting)

I don't mean to harsh on the ASP.NET default view engine, but it is a process of death by a thousand tiny legacy cuts. needs a do-over.

new biggest ASP.NET MVC mistake: using the craptacular default ASP.NET view engine. Use Spark or something else. Trust me. You'll be sorry.

ZZ Top at their eighties-ist. Whether that's good or bad is up to you. http://tinyurl.com/cptkon

1535 COVERDALE 2 Kings iv. 29 Girde vp thy loynes, and take my staffe in thy hande, and go thy waye. Luke xii.

"we’re assuming the average reader looks at about half the pages published, which seems reasonable" uh.. no it doesn't. http://is.gd/sjHp

clicking around on baby stuff I found reference to "Indigo Child". parenting: NOT FOR THE WEAK http://tinyurl.com/bde2f