"While brute force attacks are still for dummies, most people are, statistically speaking, dummies."

"Whenever possible, steal code."

the one MacBook feature I wish more PC laptops would emulate -- ginormous trackpad. It's so tiny on most PC laptops.

oh. my. god. he bought the original "Pig Burgers" hat from Better Off Dead to put in the back seat of the Camaro. I <3 the internet.

"You'll either get that camaro or you'll wind up in jail." Wow. Tenacious. Makes even the ultra-crappy flash UI worth browsing through.

genius business idea: Chocolate Rain drink line. From me to you. Remember, the first billion is always the hardest.

@jluebbert somebody's got a case of the Mondays! http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000067.html

erm, I saw this GH:WT ad, and I'm pretty darn sure this *isn't* the version that aired in the USA. http://gamevideos.1up.com/video/id/22469

Is that a Degu in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me? http://tinyurl.com/5aozyp

Capybara: "The only rodent you might consider eating just because they're tasty and not because you're living in the End Times"

chinchilla dust bath -- with musical accompaniment! http://tinyurl.com/5jra4z

exploring the mysterious chinchilla - squash connection http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/5087/800pxchinsquashhi3.jpg

oh and when I replied to him asking for clarification, this was the last line of his reply email: "ps I no idea what coding is"

so apparently some old guy learned how to use the internet and randomly sent me a picture of his dad circa 1945. Weirdest "spam" ever.

"Kurt Cobain was reported to have kept a VHS recording of the suicide, and would watch it several times over on certain days."

"Hey Man, Nice Shot" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budd_Dwyer

Manly Pandas? Mammas Starfish? I'm partial to Lifelike Pancake Carcass myself. http://tinyurl.com/jerfo

sure, why not give birth in the bathroom? stupid medical science! http://is.gd/6LrP

Family Guy: Stewie's first Hustler magazine http://tinyurl.com/5w6ca2

I always read that sign as "School Free Drug Zone" for some reason. Probably not a good idea, methinks.

here's the 1920x1200 version of previous Fallout 3 HDR screenshot. http://img383.imageshack.us/img383/6981/fallout3screenshotlargeuf8.jpg

"these signs are driving me insane and I have to figure out who is behind them." http://is.gd/6vob

the wasteland is so beautiful in HDR http://img361.imageshack.us/img361/8599/fallout3screenshotok4.jpg

I dream of the wasteland

Star Wars, show tunes stylee http://starwars.yahoo.com/videos/e054eee49ff38cab22be2c3368512629

seriously, Entourage on HBO should drop all the other characters except for Ari Gold and assistant. What's the point? E? Turtle? C'mon.

wow, I still get a thrill when I see "hot add processors" and "hot add memory". That's impressive. No need to power off, just slap it in.

so apparently Mormons control CA politics? http://www.sacbee.com/391/story/1308945.html

@citizenparker I *hated* far cry 2. Bad combat, Bad AI, infinitely respawning (dumb) enemies, lots of pointless driving around. Ugh.

It is decided: Diet Pepsi Max is the fluid of the Gods.

it is *scary* how crappily coded WordPress is. Lesson: coding skill irrelevant and ultimately unnecessary. Only design and community matter.

here's a special message from me and Left 4 Dead to you: http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/9356/left4deadmessageyx3.jpg

@schwarzwald Left 4 Dead demo is out for people who pre-ordered via Steam. It is GREAT. pure uncut FPS action.

Valve's Left 4 Dead is pretty much the BEST GAME EVER. omg. it's 3d Gauntlet with Zombies and infinite ammo. Sooo awesome.

"craigslist to crack down on prostitution ads"

the "humanized" stackoverflow logo, courtesy of Alexis of Reddit http://tinyurl.com/5k3fny

that said I do believe the 4 pad / 3 cymbal arrangement is very much superior to 3 pad / 2 cymbal (if you can spring for the $40 addon)

LOL @ Amazon product discussion thread titled "Who is the toughest guy in here that could beat anyone in here up off-line?"

youtube recommends for me: drunk hasselhoff, debate "handshake", and a song from The Sound of Music. um.. thanks.. I guess..?

good lord the "tags/disputes/flags" section is ridiculously huge on some Wikipedia articles. http://tinyurl.com/h8yec

fascinating -- new filesystem for SSDs to exploit their strengths http://techreport.com/discussions.x/15843

"Maybe once the older generations die off we'll be free of these odd prejudices." seemed to work for racism..

amusing Watchmen rorschach animation http://is.gd/6rO0

@gabesumner I'm just angling for a "we love the king day". Requires a city which has no unhappy or resisting citizens above pop level 6.

wow, the EA / Activision return process for defective fake plastic rock hardware is profoundly bad. No cross-ship, blame the customer.

although it is true that nothing, *NOTHING* makes me angrier than other people's happiness. It's so goddamn annoying!

CA prop 8: apparently intolerance is the ultimate family value. When will people learn from SimCity and Civ that happiness is a public good?

dang, Sean Tevis didn't win in Kansas, either. 52% Siegfried, 48% Tevis. http://tinyurl.com/6gqfor

God how I *hate* hierarchical (threaded) comments. Unreadable.

crusty old web pages still offering clips in RealPlayer format. It's like discovering tablets covered with hieroglyphics. Need rosetta stone

"Don’t ever pick up a fallen enemy’s gun. They jam more than jammie-clad Jamiroquai in a jam factory in Jamaica."

CA Prop 8 aka "I hate gay people", sorry, I meant "I love all of God's childrens", is scarily close to passing.

I give you.. the squirrelspider! http://www.craphound.com/images/w1kspidersquirrel.jpg

Saticidae of the world.. unite and take over http://salticidae.org/salticid/main.htm

I love that CNN called California (and OR, WA) with 0% of precincts reporting.

I can't help feeling that Bush has screwed over McCain twice now. Very gracious concession speech.

this just in: Barack Obama to change his name to "cuatro cuatro"

oh, and Joel told me to tell everyone to vote "no" on Proposition 8. He said "I'd like to vote on your ability to marry." :P

"Remember the War on Drugs? Well, it's over, and drugs won."

clicking on facebook links makes me retch. Facebook == the new MySpace.

managed to snag a rock band 2 cymbals kit and one of them is DOA. Dang.

it is not possible to "go through my email spam folder" unless I happen to have 30+ minutes to do so.

I answer the complaints about the (serioulsy) gimped Wii versions of Rock Band 2 and GH:WT thusly: GET A REAL F**KING CONSOLE. $199!

no fake plastic rock band is complete without a fog machine, strobe, and animated LED lighting .. http://is.gd/6isy

ok so I mentioned "unicorn" and @wheeeunicorn bot replied "whee!!! unicorns!!!" -- friggin' hilarious

Has anyone ever seen a Prius with a McCain/Palin sticker? Like the mythological unicorn, I do not believe such a beast exists.

My prediction? MCCAIN LANDSLIDE VICTORY!

Randy Rhoads' death was kind of.. silly.. even by rock star standards http://tinyurl.com/5nwyas

a profile of undecided voters, on the eve of election day http://s4.tinypic.com/8wjj93.jpg

certain songs you think would be fun to play in a fake plastic rock game sometimes aren't. Exhibit A: "Beat It". Exhibit B: "E-Pro"

"Son of Aeron" review. Nice, but 2x the price sucks. http://tinyurl.com/5eh7cc

today's achewood has some funny geek tattoos http://www.achewood.com/

if you *really* dislike gay people, you should vote no on prop 8, because marriage is the ultimate punishment! http://is.gd/2ZsZ

ROTFL at the analysts' summary of McCain's chances for victory. "If Barack Obama were have non-consensual sex with a white woman.."

in fact twitter is pretty much the most unreliable messaging system ever, below smoke signals, carrier pigeon, and yelling real loud-like.

first AC/DC videos are surfacing for Rock Band. It is live not master, so judge for yourself. http://tinyurl.com/6fxdtu

left 4 dead is looking great. zombie survival first person shooter http://is.gd/5o8q

of all the many, many bad tattoo ideas, "permanent cosmetics" has to be one of the absolute worst.. http://www.spcp.org/

short form Guitar Hero World Tour review: best fake plastic guitar ever. EVER! Better as a solo/dual guitar game than a band game, sadly.

ugh. installed silverlight 2 to view @haacked 's video link, neither FF3 nor IE7 will recognize that silverlight 2 is installed. umm, fail?

"rings that rock". bullets n' diamonds, held by hands throwin' the horns.. what's not to like?? http://is.gd/5srx

now we're all wondering -- what's Ray Ozzie's username on Stack Overflow? http://is.gd/5sm8

Palm Springs has an annoyingly large population of people toting around little tiny yippy toy dogs. Don't see the appeal, personally.

did someone say, "Magnum, P.I. theme"??? http://tinyurl.com/2c3z5k

and yes they have a copy of the db.

I give the SQL 2008 team one week to look at / fix our massive full-text indexing slowdowns, and then we go back to SQL 2005. Lame.

we may have to downgrade to SQL 2005. The number of timeouts we're getting under SQL 2008 is absurd -- all related to bad FTSearch perf.

Saw a Magnum P.I. era Ferrari in Palm Springs. Began mentally humming the Magnum P.I. theme. You should too.

Checks: The Most Dangerous Transaction. Scary stuff. http://tinyurl.com/5t4xrs

when your restaurant motto is "quality food you can taste", you're clearly phoning it in at that point. Also, fire your copywriters.

ok my zivity.com 'trial' went live. Er.. so *that's* what you meant by "models". <blush> I guess that is a reliable business model..

seriously, what kind of idiot would *cash* a Knuth check??? The mind boggles.

"only 9 of the first 275 checks that I've sent out since the beginning of 2006 have actually been cashed." http://is.gd/5eLH

I guess I should dedicate that last link to @curvyboom 's new avatar image. Hee. @wilshipley delivers!

whatever happened to the Presidents of the United States of America? http://tinyurl.com/5dnhbo

"Do I make myself clear?" "As an unmuddied lake, sir. Clear as an azure sky of deepest summer."

"this, then, is a simple guide to some basic grammar, you illiterate morons." http://www.angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif

may lucifer brand your foreheads with an apostrophe in hades! http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/5579/apostrophesea4.jpg

world famous date milkshake at Hadley Orchards

I declare @rossmasters winner of the impromptu "what problem *can't* bigger boobs solve" contest -- the answer is "IE6".