"The place they go towards is a place even less imaginable to most of us than the city of happiness." http://is.gd/iJtA

previous tweet was of the "I think this milk is bad, taste it" variety, so please click responsibly

Weirdness alert (and warning): why is this image so.. disturbing? http://tinyurl.com/amu3lu

avoiding the software developer spousal event horizon http://tinyurl.com/c3jvwj

"from this day forward, you shall give life to anything you touch!" http://tinyurl.com/dk2n73

interesting anti-bot scaling question posed by woot.com devs http://is.gd/iIrq

ok, remember that "sweet spot" on consumer electronics I was talking about? Now would be a VERY BAD TIME to buy a new Kindle. For example.

any time I see a discussion of "keeping users on your site", I know those sites are doomed. It's like dating; you push away to pull toward.

"Premature premature optimisation discussion discussion is the root of all evil!"

New App Lets Spammers Target Twitter http://tinyurl.com/b5h8sf

dpadhero http://www.dpadhero.com/Screenshots.html

I just realized that godaddy.com is essentially a porn site now. STAY CLASSY BOB PARSONS

I half expect Seth Godin to reveal himself as a super-villain at any given time. I'll be like, "I *knew* it!" http://is.gd/iyGr

Remember kids, DSLs don’t kill people, people kill people. http://panopticoncentral.net/archive/2009/01/26/24808.aspx

A group of six Japanese wrestlers raze a house to the ground using only their bodies. http://tinyurl.com/dx87rt

had a little scare with our new servers.. were 2x slower (?!) .. Now 2x faster. PROTIP: update your network drivers, too. Who knew?

Metcalfe's Law of Polygamy: instability of any marriage is proportional to the number of people in the marriage, squared

watched Big Love series 3, episode 1. Not even a special dispensation from God could make polygamy work. Mo' ladies, mo' problems.

"ABC has officially greenlit a pilot for its reworking of "V," the 1980s miniseries about alien lizards coming down to Earth."

"everything is a string" is at the core of the Tcl language. It is both a blessing, and, to some, a curse. http://wiki.tcl.tk/3018

Why don't you tell me about the missile defense? http://tinyurl.com/cxezkk

"X# was created [...] as the foundation of an open source Enterprise Mashup Server, CRM and Groupware Suite" http://www.xsharp.org/samples/

BEHOLD: THE PRINCE OF CODE http://princeofcode.com/index.php

"Apple designers come up with 10 entirely different mock ups of any new feature." http://is.gd/dENZ

prepare for musical meme acceptance: Pep Lienhard & Band "Swiss Lady". http://tinyurl.com/d98x2k

MS Paint Adventures http://www.mspaintadventures.com/

RIP Lux Interior, now here's a guy who really lived. http://tinyurl.com/c3rqxx

"I'm a cool black guy!" http://tinyurl.com/bdmyto

"DRM for electronic books could actually stick." http://reidwrite.livejournal.com/5490.html

technically 99.0% uptime means you'd be down for 3 1/2 days per year. Most sites do better than that, I think

celebrating our two-nines uptime stats

I have to *call Intuit* to register QuickBooks? No internet validation? What year is this again, 1992?

Man Robs Store With Klingon Sword http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/18637190/detail.html

"Tables kill kittens, ponies and unicorns with each misguided use." http://is.gd/iatw

"Like all utopias of this era, the Icarians met their demise from within their own community." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icarian

comment left on so.com question: "Perhaps a better question: 'How do I stab myself repeatedly in the eye with a pen?'"

The Elements of Spam, by William Strunk Jr., E.B. White, and Generouss Q. Factotum : http://mcsweeneys.net/2008/12/30roeder.html

you have been rated as "Loathsomely Corpulent." http://is.gd/imKn

For the entire month of February, Michael J. Nelson will eat nothing but bacon. http://is.gd/i99D

Singularity U, aka the Fightin' Unknowns! http://singularity-university.org/

nvidia's new netbook platform, Ion, may show up in Mac Mini http://techreport.com/articles.x/16340/2

@dpurrington "figure out what the finalizer is doing and figure out what is stopping it from finalizing these bitmaps" http://ff.im/-TEQX

deployed some ads last night that reference Jon Skeet. Not a parody, these are real ads. The legend grows..

"Truth comes as conqueror only to those who have lost the art of receiving it as a friend."

looking like the whole Stack Overflow team might make it to MIX 09! Hooray! I love MIX. http://2009.visitmix.com/

putting my old keyboard in the dishwasher: top rack, no detergent, no heated dry.. let's see what happens http://is.gd/fHL

Design tip: make the right thing easy to do and the wrong thing awkward to do

rt @cshirky http://www.cornify.com/ Teh awesome. The internet is done, we can all go home and congratulate ourselves on a job well done.

at least it makes more sense than storks delivering babies http://tinyurl.com/anrx9v

emails that end in "so, to recap in case that made little or no sense.." (not kidding, this is a direct quote) should *start* with this FYI

what I've learned from Twitter: life is a series of random, seemingly unconnected events, eventually culiminating in your death.

dear internet dumbasses: if you hate cleartype (RGB anti-aliasing), uninstall the cleartype-specific fonts from your system.

Luther Wright and the Wrongs reimagine Pink Floyd's The Wall as a country album. Friggin' great. http://is.gd/idkK

I got a basketball jones http://tinyurl.com/yp69ps

there's always some new crazy keyboard. "dynamic positioning" : http://tinyurl.com/6tywpb

this is, IMO, a pretty keyboard; nice counterpoint to the Apple design http://is.gd/icWh

wow, disturbing keyblocking/matrixing issue on some keyboards (starts at 5 minutes) http://tinyurl.com/aafaxn

keyboard for blondes https://www.keyboardforblondes.com/index.cfm

today's case: who ruined the internet? http://www.chainsawsuit.com/20090203.shtml

I suck so much at accounting #firstworldproblems

seeing a bit more spam than usual make it through to my gmail. not much, but it's been so near-perfect for so long.

the middle of the road, is trying to find me -- http://is.gd/icmk

@xen_yasai @jonskeet there's a "sweet spot" for buying computer stuff, both in pricing and time.

rt @timbray @enterprisey is fantastic

awesome left4dead valentine's cards (bottom half of page) http://www.beavotron.com/

I sort of enjoyed shocking myself with the scatmat while testing it. I guess it's an acquired taste, like licking 9v batteries. Mmm!

got a scatmat to deter sneaky cats from jumping on kitchen counters. just heard it work. Sorry kitty, you gotta learn. http://is.gd/ib1L

@kathysierra I put them side by side to see if they had changed and @betsyphd said "well, this one is not disgusting. that's one difference"

Amazon Prime has to be the absolute pinnacle of the modern consumer experience

Luxuriating in that "new keyboard feeling". Oh yeah. This natural 4000 is identical to the old one, but noticeably quieter on keypress

from burgeoning files of the Ill-Advised Tattoo Department http://is.gd/i7Al

@cinnabarsweets I continue to recommend the Aspire One http://tinyurl.com/d4qblp

tempted to buy a netbook, but Intel's upcoming Pineville is going to change the game completely. http://techreport.com/discussions.x/16260

otto loves pineapple as much as I do http://tinyurl.com/5fuu34

all hail Ananas comosus bromeliaceae http://www.levins.com/pineapple.html

must.. resist.. Watchmen.. figurines.. http://www.cmdstore.com/watchmen.html

@lstoakes I'll get back to you on that later.

"all programming languages were designed on a US keyboard. Important keys like " ; ' { } are on the home row or close to it"

I really don't enjoy writing code that serves up advertisements. Necessary, I suppose, but .. meh.

you are the magnet, and I am the steel. Also, I am wearing a SWEET ASS jacket. http://tinyurl.com/57oly6

Rushmore is, by far, Wes Andersen's best movie. It's not even close. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0027572/

"That's probably the hardest geometry equation in the world." http://tinyurl.com/apfvkv

btw, thanks to those who pointed us to the Real Genius soundtrack (awesome) and reminded me that Flight of the Conchords S2E2 was out!

"I was recently asked my Stack Overflow rep score in a job interview." are you serious? c'mon. http://is.gd/i3NH

XKCD is great and all but after 6 months of endless stackoverflow references to same, I think I'm done with that.

"you're a bugaboo, you're buggin' me." We totally need these fashions to come back in style. http://tinyurl.com/b55eyw

why isn't the dullest blog in the world updated any more? how boring. http://dullestblog.com/

people, the MS Natural 4000 is the RealDoll(tm) of keyboards. That's all I'm saying. It is that good. (some don't like the spacebar, tho)

@alienflued I <3 the MS Natural 4000, this one is just worn out. Getting another one; @ccatto recommends http://is.gd/i2I6 .. interesting

wow, I went to optimize some text diff() stuff we're doing and I found the LINQ calls were half the runtime (!!)

my keyboard is officially shot. 3 year lifespan? http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000400.html

"The world is simple, and there must be a simple explanation for everything." http://klausler.com/cargo.html

programmers: do not confuse the Lambda with the Lambada. They are very different things. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099595/

"Today, video and audio on the web are dominated by proprietary technologies." http://is.gd/hZ5H

"there's a lot more at stake in this case than World of Warcraft bots." http://is.gd/hSAx

Zinc Air Prismatic batteries? http://legitreviews.com/article/887/1/

desktop raid: like I've always said, it's a Very Bad Idea. http://is.gd/hYXt

"This is my GUID. There are many like it but this one is mine. My GUID is my best friend..." http://is.gd/hYQV

I could write a novella about how profoundly http://answers.wikia.com is Doing It Wrong.

"Enough! I grow weary of your sexually suggestive dancing. Bring me my ranch dressing hose." http://is.gd/hXYb