sorry 217.43.80.246 , 5 uncompressed reqs/sec for an hour is bannable. kthxbye.

if you see a random IP address (no search engine assocation) mercilessly and relentlessly scraping your website, is it OK to ban them?

rt @dehora manifesto.softwarecraftsmanship.org/main home lacks quality: http://tinyurl.com/8cspjm

that LazyTown "cooking by the book" lil' jon video mashup just slays me every time.

it's proven: Microsoft Word Saves Lives. http://is.gd/muPC

Hope babby gets here soon. I have so, so many things to teach him: Scientology, Ron Paul, Amway, Atlas Shrugged..

my megapixels is bigger than yours. http://tinyurl.com/d8q7p3

that said, I *can* support one level of threading. Maybe two at gunpoint, but that's it.

I agree that ONE (and only one) level of threading can be ok. Beyond that, You Are Doing It Wrong(tm)

I run a startup, and all, but I am so sick to death of all the meta-startup talk. SHUT THE HELL UP AND BUILD SOMETHING.

engaging in discussion on Hacker News reminds me how much I hate threaded comments. http://is.gd/mu1i

I have a strange urge to watch RuPaul videos all of a sudden. http://tinyurl.com/bxvzw6

I like Hacker News, but how the heck did an Economist story on the drug war get to the top of the front page? I thought they had editors?

I just clicked through on @mattcutts link http://bit.ly/zQBD and the sidebar is 100% women's body parts. Advertising ftw.

The Value of Downvoting, or, How Hacker News Gets It Wrong http://is.gd/mtCs

I expect robots falling down, 1000 years from now, will still be funny, too http://tinyurl.com/4frq4d

interesting rant on Wii's "anything goes" architecture http://tinyurl.com/atnn85

Saw Watchmen. Verdict? Much better than could be reasonably expected based on complexity of material, and fairly true to book.

catalog vs catalogue: fight!

this promo video for "Stalin vs. Martians" has BROKEN MY MIND. and yes it is a real game. http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/57553

Some cool "old" pc hardware. SpaceOrb FTW! http://www.techreport.com/discussions.x/16508

It is so profoundly sad that Paul Thurrott, *technology columnist*, is too poor to afford an iPhone. COME ON MAN! http://is.gd/mmZQ

"by the way, if anyone in here is in advertising or marketing, kill yourself." http://tinyurl.com/pndyy

GAZE IN AMAZEMENT UPON THE ALL PURPOSE DECORATIVE GRAPH http://www.dansdata.com/images/ltgf2/fancygraph.png

I don't know if desktop 3d will ever be viable. Been messing with it on and off for years.. http://techreport.com/articles.x/16313

quality isn't dead. It's just resting. In its defense, it was very, very tired.

Defense Grid: The Awakening was fun. Last level is a big puzzly for my tastes; had to look up a layout online. Cannons + guns ftw!

is IE8's compatibility mode the same as having IE7 installed? or will we have to struggle with another year of "oh noes, I need a VM?"

Enterprise FizzBuzz: Still Awesome(tm) http://code.google.com/p/fizzbuzz/

Check out the double kick pedal drum tracking in that video at about 1:22. I just crapped my virtua pants. kicktastic.

really cool Metallica mo-cap video. They actually performed most of the songs? hardcore, man. http://is.gd/mdhT

and if you don't have 10k+ rep, WTH? stop slacking off you losers! Gosh!

stackoverflow.com morning rt. If you have 10k+ rep, your pseudo-mod tools are now available. see link at top of page.

geez, deploying a new JQuery caused a noticeable semi-large spike in our traffic (Cacti graph) as users re-downloaded it.

wait a second, was I just "leveraging my social media expertise on twitter use"? Ugh. Self-loathing +1.

although, to be fair. "of no conceivable general interest" is a pretty good summary of my Twitter use. It's a slippery slope, people!1!

I only DM when the message would be of no conceivable general interest at all, for really specialized question / requests

but I agree it's aggravating when users DM you stuff that they should have made @msg public. @anildash I am lookin' at you, pal :)

I shall now spin my "giant spinner o' blame", as featured on the Price is Right. The game in which everyone loses, every time!

anyone who runs, is a VC. Anyone who stands, is a well-disciplined VC. http://tinyurl.com/d5slla

stackoverflow.com: if you have 10k+ rep, most of the tools are finally live for you (see link at top of page). finishing the last 4 now.

I will never forgive Heath Ledger for making the Joker so damn emo

current development plan: http://tinyurl.com/djrra

we've always been at war with Eastasia

@geoffblair a) users request it, b) javascript to do the same thing.. validates. the whole validation exercise is a complete circlejerk

rt @haacked urban camo at Ikea http://www.urbancamouflage.de/

note: previous message was not a subliminal effort to get people to view our ads. I swear. I think.

did you just submit an ad to Stack Overflow with partially visible *nips*? OMG, you did. What do you think this is, Europe?

Remember how Apple had pretty good wintel price parity in 2005-2006? Yeah. Not so much any more. I blame netbooks.

"doba, baby. doba." God I love songs recorded in Simlish. http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000813.html

I don't understand these crazy kids' obsession with singles. Listening to a great album and anticipating every song transition.. ftw

downside of black hat SEO: "We have just the whores you are looking for!” also, look in the mirror. See another whore? http://is.gd/lSKF

rt @skrenta Google ranks twitter accounts well, so now except seo to begin - http://is.gd/lGdM

XHTML: still pointless.

if you want your programming colleagues to go to the mental hospital: "#define if while"

@mjgardner friendster 4 lyfe!! http://profiles.friendster.com/codinghorror

the other weird thing is that our next door neighbors are *really* named Frankenstein. Endless jokes ensue.. http://is.gd/lRZS

amazing how much mainstream media attention Twitter is getting these days. Now that everyone knows about it, it's not cool any more. I quit!

She's got Marty Feldman's eyes http://tinyurl.com/cp3p7q

Bette Davis admitted to being a fan of the song and .. thank[ed] them for making her "a part of modern times." http://is.gd/lRzf

some computer office pr0n http://www.biscade.com/office/

the cult of done manifesto http://tinyurl.com/b8w6gp

at some point in your life you realize that you're never gonna make it at The Midvale School for the Gifted http://is.gd/lOVp

at some point you realize that nature has been tricking us into reproducing with this "sex" thing all these years. Doh!

human reproduction is kind of wack. Why can't we reproduce by mitosis? Concentrate really hard and.. *paf*, there's two of you!

I remember Lessig talking about this http://tinyurl.com/dbpmah

first day on the Stack Overflow coding team? Here's your orientation. http://tinyurl.com/yrt2f3

it is sort of sad, I think 64-bit may be the last bit transition in our lifetimes, except for maybe newborn babies

@akselsoft naturally, 64-bit is required on the desktop for 4GB+ in practical terms http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000994.html

good lord Flash's font rendering is hideous. It is gouge-your-eyes-out bad. I hate PDF, too, but at least it gets font rendering right

not to be overly dramatic, but going to 8 GB of RAM on the desktop has *changed my life*. Highly recommended. And sooo cheap.

holy cow, Google Groups is organically searching web forums now, not just usenet? Zow. I must have missed that news item..

I had almost forgotten about intel's "Classmate" netbook http://www.techreport.com/articles.x/16496/2

rt @nathanbowers kliban is genius http://www.coldbacon.com/kliban2.html

[citation needed] http://tinyurl.com/245elf

What is Cuil Theory? http://tinyurl.com/6ggdt3

Lame Edit Wars is, I swear to God, the human condition in a nutshell. http://tinyurl.com/c444se

A Brief History of The First Great Stack Overflow Edit War http://tinyurl.com/cjkylp

"living dinosaur" exhbiit at LA Museum? Very cool. http://tinyurl.com/5gvowe

Wow. Intel quad core, 8GB PC for $500. hardware is free!! http://is.gd/lEjw

"Now you can save up all your change and do what George Lucas does. That's right - ruin beloved movie franchises. And buy Cheetos."

now it can be told. got @jarrod_dixon this sweet Fertility Idol bank for his birthday. http://is.gd/km98

happy square root day, dorks! http://is.gd/lxkY

Blizzard makes more from WOW than EA's entire console revenue on all platforms, combined? Interesting.

vote to pick the Rock Band 2 setlist for MIX 09! http://tinyurl.com/cyx4hx

the ol' person swap trick. http://tinyurl.com/2nlpnh

whatever happened to Tender Loving Care, the other Trilobyte property? Best not to ask.. http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/tenderlovingc.php

soliciting song requests to play when @betsyphd is in labor. "Gonna Fly Now", "Welcome to the Jungle", "Eye of the Tiger" .. ?

"Someone is cheating Girl Scouts, using fake $20 bills to buy cookies." humanity -1 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29465539/

getting my high power z-bar LED lamp set up again. LEDs FTW! http://www.konceptech.com/highpowerzbar.html

In an amazing break with tradition this process did not result in the unleashing of ancient horrors, or alien invasion http://is.gd/lvjC

"looks like somebody's got a case of the Mondays."

the netbook revolution: "my one complaint so far is that using it in public has led to distracting conversations about it."

horrible, but real, GameStop training video on selling to women http://tinyurl.com/czzaao

"In creating a laptop for the world's poor, she revealed that PC users didn't want more out of a laptop: they wanted less" http://is.gd/kAS5

inspiration from burning man. all that plus.. boobs! http://tinyurl.com/d3unc

somehow, our self-built servers never have this problem.

getting real sick of the way our CrystalTech servers fail to come back from a reboot about 25% of the time.

I now own the Baby Owner's Manual courtesy of @betsyphd http://tinyurl.com/cen5eu