"I don't want the world; I just want your half." http://tinyurl.com/22sxbw

remembering Werdna and Trebor http://is.gd/4GTx

"It's a dirty job, but someone's gotta do it." http://is.gd/4GSC

Do you enjoy mind-numbing bouts of driving punctuated by periodic unremarkable battles with hordes of brainless identical clones? Far Cry 2!

JQuery and their ilk are really about true platform/browser independence. They're sort of like .NET and Java runtimes in that regard.

I see there are some JQuery haters out there. You will be assimilated by Resig's army soon enough.

it's amazing how often the answer to any JavaScript question is pretty much "use JQuery"

best programmer's mayonnaise.. best programmer's halloween costume.. best programmer's foods.. SO has got your back. Just sayin'.

chun-li halloween costume http://is.gd/4Grk also, ken/ryu/akuma on same site. heh.

classic atari 2600 USB joystick controller http://www.legacyengineer.com/store.html

I guess the moral of this story is, don't believe everything you read on a blog. NEWS FLASH!

Mads K blog post -- I get the exact *opposite* of his results on my box. Deflate is 2x *slower* than Gzip! http://is.gd/4Gc1

apparently those triathlon swim starts are pretty rough.. http://tinyurl.com/qu5zc

Begin the Great Baconation: bacon salt, now bacon mayonnaise http://www.baconnaise.com/

although the Knuth suggestion is kinda funny. I don't think Joel or I really exist in quite the same universe as Knuth.

if you have time, leave suggestions (for podcast guests) on the blog post itself, so I can find 'em later. http://is.gd/4CUK

who would *you* like to hear us talk with on the stack overflow podcast? http://is.gd/4CUK

man, fighting the People's Clone Liberation Army in Far Cry 2 is not fun at *all* I think I'm just gonna replay Crysis: Warhead instead.

huh. Darkplace. http://is.gd/4BP6

errr.. what is this? Darkplace? http://tinyurl.com/5v94o4

really not liking Far Cry 2 at all. Gunplay unsatisfying, and MMORPG style going from point to point in foozle quests.

I have to admit the "Palin" part of the McPalin ticket makes me really, really not want that outcome.

latest search result from search.twitter.com : rails application failed to start properly. I'll pretend I was searching for that.

wow, 24" monitors seem comically HYOOOOGE after working on the netbook 9" for an hour or two. :)

this little Atom netbook is kinda sweet and awesome. 1024x600 is definitely the minimum acceptable res, though.

we live a few blocks from El Cerrito high school. must be a game tonight, I hear the band playing "Thriller".Thril-err.. chill-errr.. night

how big a Beatles fan are you? http://tinyurl.com/55vmvf

@bdehammer got a little annoyed with Far Cry 2 after being sent on my third "kill the foozle" quest, with 2 minute driving interludes..

got the pink acer one netbook. It's so cute! de-crapifying it now. also, sad that de-crapifying is a fact of life in Windows.

I need Far Cry 2 to finish loading so I can shoot some people in the face. In the game, I mean.

and thus.. concludes today's ad experiment. thank you for coming. (dramatic flourish, exeunt stage left)

Also, I am seriously considering reducing/removing ads for high rep users

ok, Stack Overflow ads changed. more "blend-y" and "float-y" now. Btw these are kind of placeholder ads, but I need them to show clients.

I am changing the ads. I feel you, dawgs. give me like 15 mins.

@cory_foy what ad? I don't see anything. (looks closely) are you sure there's an ad there?

"Jeff: should there be more ads?" "Jeff: yes! many more!" "Jeff: I like animated ads, with sound!" "Jeff: me too!" "Jeff: ooh, me three!"

that's it! game over! I'm cancelling Stack Overflow! I'll just ask and answer my own questions privately and click on my own damn ads! :)

getting lots of other HELPFUL twitters on this, by the way. with actual, y'know, suggestions.

"new ads!" the funny thing is, we HAD ads before, but nobody noticed them. That's sort of my point.. the ads have to break flow a *little*

Just thought I'd throw the Bush/Rove South Carolina "black baby" strategery in there from 2000, for extra spicy political hate! <3

remembering the TRS-80 Model 100 http://tinyurl.com/34ulxa

"Your garden is not complete until there is nothing more you can remove."

So when you really love me, you should bring me edelweiss http://tinyurl.com/2ru27r

won't someone *please* think of the Ferrets? http://tinyurl.com/yo7q8m/g/a/2008/04/01/petscol.DTL

Keeping your refrigerator stocked will get you many women http://tinyurl.com/3ewdbw

new GTX 280 video card is behaving much more sanely in RTHDRIBL. With rear exhaust dremeled away, keeping under 83c under full load..

"You wearing it is 200% Headbanging Film Nerd" http://tinyurl.com/328mcx

to be clear, @TonyBunce had the right idea -- this works to delete crazy-long win32 paths, it's what I did -- http://tinyurl.com/63wv5w

rd /s /q -- seriously? how retarded do you guys think I am? I'm telling you, if RoboCopy creates super-deep paths, NOTHING works.

that was super-nasty, because almost nothing can manipulate paths that deep other than RoboCopy itself.

I am literally unable to delete this massive recursive folder structure RoboCopy created due to path length limitations in the OS.

somehow robocopy /mir created the recursive folder structure of doom. not cool, man.

another day, another spam email from Guy Kawasaki. Leading by example.

public service announcement: if your username is 'raven' know that I will mentally prefix your name with 'That's So' every time I read it.

coors is discontinuing Zima? When will the terrible effects of this economic downturn end?

hey, it's global piracy awareness day! I know because I saw the banner on piratebay!

@reelmccoy the GTX280 card I had would get to 105c immediately and throttle, pretty much all the time under any 3d load.

in the current harsh economic climate, I recommend we move to a Pepsi Points(tm) based economy. It's the only way forward.

oh nice, my replacement GTX 280 will arrive in time for Far Cry 2. I'll listen to some extra Toto to celebrate.

currently installing 1.21 jigawatts of windows updates on clean vista sp1 laptop install..

giving ye olde laptop some 4GB/320GB upgrade lovin'. It's a year old -- positively *ancient* in computer years.

this blog entry is exactly two clicks away from the Wikipedia entry for c**t. Kevin Bacon, eat your heart out. http://zi.ma/9c5c16

the frustrating thing for me, having toiled on SO, is that it is *just not that hard* to implement some of these features.

to quote Pee Wee Herman, "I meant to do that."

no no, Boondoogle -- spending far too much time on Google looking for random crap.

working on my new blog entry, "Writing Blog Entries: Giant Waste of Time or Mindless Boondoogle?"

neat "folding" desk http://tinyurl.com/5elmwn

you've got to be cruel to be kind http://tinyurl.com/27wvkm

are there any other online sites where your user reputation score actively decays over time? I consider this a profoundly bad idea, but..

"odd Frenchy/Canadian layout, so some of the secondary function key placements may seem kind of strange, with slight socialistic tendencies"

who seriously in their heart truly believes "there is no such thing as a stupid question?" because I have some URLs you need to visit.

@bjorntipling not in this case; the search result page already contained the link, so the digg page was a wasted click + back for me.

I mean, seriously, when has a digg page EVER contained anything useful on it other than the article link? There's the prob with Digg.

you know what's not helpful? a Digg result on my SRP pointing to another link that's already on the same SRP. Fix that, godgle.

I vote for "peer pressure" as the funniest Stack Overflow badge yet. Of course, I am biased.

(also, very disgusting. but it worked.)

got to use a hand-held auger (snake) tonight to clear kitchen drain from underneath. Joe the Plumber? I got your plumber right *here*.

what is it about politics that makes otherwise normal people BATSHIT INSANE? Just wondering.

on pluralization: ok sure it's technically a bug but GOOD GOD PEOPLE. It's like death by paper cuts.

I swear to God, I am gonna kill the next person who opens a bug on " when only one item listed, shouldn't be pluralized "

this one is for @NathanBowers -- more ultra-obscure 80s music http://tinyurl.com/5q3blj

JavaScript does continue a fine computer science tradition: the shittiest possible language always become the most popular one. Winner = us!

it is possible to remove the IE7 filter after JQuery .fadeTo(), but only if you end up at 0% (fully hidden) or 100% (fully shown)

JavaScript function arguments scare me. "Oh yeah, pass a string, or a number, or one of these five random objects." Uhh.. OK?

wow, so JQuery.fadeTo() is pretty much incompatible with ClearType in IE7. Particularly bad for us because we fade to 50%. Looks HIDEOUS.

DOLEMITE IS DEAD http://www.eurweb.com/story/eur47952.cfm

Bruce Schneier's examination of airport security theater http://tinyurl.com/4yw9w7

men's reactions peak at age 39: http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/mensreactionspeakatage39

Geoff just implemented "ignored tags" and "interesting tags" -- http://stackoverflow.com/

Here's what they don't tell you about your 15 minutes of fame: the last 12 minutes are a rectal exam.

(via @JRordonez) YouTube comment of the day: "First of all I want to say one thing. Ps3 is a republican system."

The Man Who Counted: A Collection of Mathematical Adventures http://tinyurl.com/6l7c52

well, hopefully Yahoo can get their OpenID house in order and stop confusing the crap out of users. Even the technical ones..

it is unfortunate that yahoo's handling of openid is inept bordering on pathologically bad. I kinda wish they *didn't* support it at this pt

yahoo is the anti-provider. they make you NOT want to use them. well, for openid, anyway. Have I mentioned how AWESOME myopenid.com is? eh?

What's that smell? Why, I think that's the smell of freshly baked new stackoverflow badges! Mmmm, breathe in the goodness!

HOWTO Encourage Women In Linux http://tinyurl.com/2f7dou

"please don't support these fools and scoundrels." http://www.satisfice.com/blog/archives/130

ok, I am convinced; the comments on Hacker News really are of higher quality than prog.reddit

"on a horse made of crystal, he patrolled the land, with a mason ring and schnauzer in his perfect hand" http://is.gd/Fh3