youtube review of Konami's Rock Revolution: "Pretty much the same as Rock Band except RB is 1000000x better" how far Konami has fallen!

of course at resolutions you'd actually *play* at, CPU is basically irrelevant, it's 90% GPU perf.

wow, Far Cry 2 is the 1st game I've seen that actually scales to 4 cores decently. four x 2.4Ghz == two x 3.0 Ghz+ http://is.gd/4inm

god I hate mail-in rebates. And yet I fall for them every single time. Money is, truly, the root of all evil.

I guess people didn't appreciate how/why you would have multiple iexplore.exe instances. It was reasonably subtle, I guess.

robocop on a unicorn http://tinyurl.com/5cljws

having one firefox.exe is an epic architectural browser design mistake. Painful from day one, and getting worse every second.

I want to do that "Dangerous Minds" thing where I go into inner city schools and teach kids based on the lyrics of Nirvana and Police songs

hey twitter finally has a mobile replies ui! yay! and it only took, what, a year?

Bloglines slow descent into madness is infuriating. Guess I'll switch to greader like everyone else..

2 cents a minute? HIGHWAY ROBBERY!

news flash: the world is apparently full of armchair quarterbacks.

qwitter -- catching twitter quitters http://useqwitter.com/ (via @waxpancake)

redundant answers is not a problem! http://tinyurl.com/5bz5nn

just got my 1st actual Stack Overflow search result for something I was looking for. Helped, too. http://is.gd/4fDe

HOLY SWEET MOTHER OF GOD! SUMMIZE (search.twitter.com) DO YOU EVER WORK! fail whale lives on; he's just moved fqdns.

I admire Raymond Chen but there's something.. prickly.. about his demeanor that sort of generally turns me off.

this is how it feels for me to blog now: http://www.southparkstudios.com/crap/downloads/preview/5410/

it is beyond my wildest dreams that we might actually have president David Palmer, as predicted by the first season of 24 http://is.gd/4eZD

"youtube embedding disabled" == "we have not the first effing clue how viral marketing works"

what do you think the teacher's going to look like this year? http://is.gd/4eNh

and the lord said unto man "he who checks in files which break the build shall pay a penance of doughnuts" That is the law http://is.gd/4eMN

Guitar Hero: World Tour is released on.. drumroll.. sunday the 26th. Note *all Sundays* : http://is.gd/WDV

I am *convinced* game companies schedule releases on Sunday so they can intentionally f**k those of us who ordered online vs brick-n-mortar.

I am a proud member of the invariant culture. None of that funky culture specific string rule business for us THANKYOUVERYMUCH.

what the HELL is this crap (youtube link)? http://tinyurl.com/5bx9m6

wizards: no sense of right and wrong. http://gunshowcomic.com/comics/20081015.gif

holy cow, MySQL's stop word list is huge -- http://is.gd/4eCd -- wtf??

I *think* I just implemented the first version of search for Stack Overflow that doesn't totally suck. Try it yourself and see..

"question closed as duplicate of 'can you code while drunk' " >_<

"My greatest strength would be my humility. My greatest weakness is that it's possible I am too awesome." http://is.gd/4eaT via @shanselman

http://tinyurl.com/6dm97t -- we count 11+ references to 80's cartoon opening sequences in this music video

I would argue that $379 netbooks are, in a very real way, the death of the desktop. The price for a "web browser" will get lower every year.

my point isn't that macs are expensive, they haven't been for years, it's that the *web browser* is the only thing that matters any more.

if all you want to do is surf the web, why in the world would you pay 2x to 4x the price for a Mac laptop?

Just bought a $379 netbook for @betsyphd -- in pink, naturally. 1gb / 120gb / 1.6 GHz / 1024x600 http://is.gd/4dWN

why am I singing "Eleanor Rigby"? WTH? http://is.gd/4dpI

pinapple is truly the most noble of all pizza toppings

new Star Trek movie deets http://tinyurl.com/4up5f6

the real debate video clip http://tinyurl.com/3lnxqs

you just divided by zero, didn't you? http://tinyurl.com/4z5f83

ah, we have a "nonsense" tag. that's reassuring.

does anyone have an example of a good UI for picking "these are the tags I like.. these are the tags I hate?"

"If you wake up every morning and want to kill yourself rather than go to work, then you've waited too long."

How does one make "Computer Programmer" sound cool to 8 year olds? http://tinyurl.com/3n3azs

"No new U.S. nuclear reactor has been built since the 1970s"

guess I'll "sidegrade" my laptop HDD to spinner and go to 4GB while I'm at it. I can probably sell the SSD for enough $ to cover both, heh.

just got phished via Skype for a "registry scan" and "windows requires immediate attention" via registryservice.org

I kinda regret going with 1st gen SSD on my laptop. 32gb is just too small for Vista. F**king \winsxs folder is the bane of my existence.

9,868 registered users with reputation of 15 or more, all signing in via OpenID

ok wow, so when you said "prepare a draft" you meant "ghostwrite an interview as YOU". just.. wow. Profile <> interview. Yep <> not !=.

via @kevindente this really *is* hilarious! http://tinyurl.com/4ejc5v

ugh, Safari (and thus Chrome) doesn't support window.onerror http://tinyurl.com/4zr9rx

stack overflow podcast episode #26 includes cowbell. really.

I don't know how anyone makes money with generic google adsense. The "autosense" ads are pretty much crap.

wow, election in 19 days. REGIME CHANGE FTW

kinda glad we don't do ANYTHING with email on SO. email = efail.

Yelp has possibly the most annoying email newsletters I've ever seen. That's.. impressive, I guess.

"rocking" in every aspect of life http://tinyurl.com/39cdog

If it wasn't for sex (and kids, etc), would women and men even bother interacting with each other? Sometimes I wonder.

Yahtzee reviews STALKER, great as usual http://tinyurl.com/4t8l8f

I guess Google's 80%+ percent share of your website traffic is sort of *roughly* analogous to Microsoft's 90%+ desktop OS share?

search engines at 59% today. I think they may top out at over 80% of our total traffic. If Google decides to delist you, game over man.

search engines up to 53% on stackoverflow.com. How high will it go?

"Hi I'll pay you $200 for a permanent text link on your article! Also, this isn't spammy or shady!" yeah. also not a total ripoff, either.

"I had never considered this before, but Fred Astaire would have made a phenomenal martial artist."

Hmm. What *is* the ultimate programmer's mayonnaise? (opens stackoverflow.com, clicks "ask a question")

I officially hate the words "best" and "favorite" now. Thanks Stack Overflow! (thumbs up)

Have I mentioned recently how much I like myopenid.com? It's just swell!

Ridley Scott to make Haldeman's 1974 novel "The Forever War" into a movie http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117993856.html

The O.Henry Anthology of Comics Adaptions http://nickbertozzi.com/teaching/ohenry/index.html

fly the friendly skies of Shipley Air, where every ticket comes with a complimentary "no fat chicks" sticker!

I cannot read SQL 2005's execution plan output worth a crap for complex queries. pretty much trial and error for me on that.

it's so.. sad.. to watch RTHDRIBL run in the background as I'm typing like this.. stutter.. go.. stutter.. go.. stutter.. go. Sigh. 105c!

@adbjornu not an issue of heat; this card is defective. Putting in 8800gtx in same exact machine works fine. It's the only variable.

aw, crap. This GTX 280 is defective. Reaches 105c and stutters/throttles under RTHDRIBL (and games). Not my week for hardware upgrades.

power supply upgrade complete. GTX 280 finally online. Stupid 8-pin connectors. The new 260 is what I shoulda gotten: http://is.gd/413o

FYI: the band Stryper is in the studio recording a new album. I thought you might like to know that. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stryper

"I want to answer most of the questions with 'your mom'." -- reddit reader on the launch of Stack Overflow

cultivate a stoic calmness... http://www.links.net/dox/warez/games/microprose/samurai/pix/interstitialcalmness.gif

catassery: man has 36 WOW accounts, raids by himself http://tinyurl.com/44q4dz

Maybe I should update codinghorror.com. NAH THAT'S OLD AND BUSTED. waste of time.

I'm not kidding around here. Seriously, be my friend, or I'll f**king kill you.

It has come to my attention that not enough of you are friending me on Friendster. http://profiles.friendster.com/codinghorror

well, thank *goodness* someone created the "here-be-dragons" tag on Stack Overflow. That's helpful. Dragons are dangerous and stuff.

Lord British blasts into space, the *ULTIMA*te adventure http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/space/10/12/space.tourist.ap/index.html

People have the uncanny ability to ask the exact same questions using totally different words. Amazing.

I also find the "lost pet" flyers seen around the neighborhood profoundly sad. Even if it's for a cat named "silly".

People's forum messages to their dead pets demolish me. I can't imagine reading something like that for, y'know, people.

the recorder, one of hundreds of musical instruments I can't play http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recorder

I wish I could blog or tweet about how incredibly amazingly awesome @wilshipley is. But I can't. So I won't. If only I could, people.

can't.. stop.. touching.. stack.. overflow.. </slaps hand>

showing off my ancient Sam and Max t-shirt for @wilshipley http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/5571/flakeguitarfaceplatemoutq2.jpg

"Then," he added, "we want you to buy an instrument and start a real band." http://is.gd/3UYo

oh yes, let us not forget EBCDIC! Think of the children!

rachel ray corn porn. Watch until 1:15 at least for the LULZ http://tinyurl.com/53xdu6

"this is a different story if diarrhea and vomiting are involved" http://tinyurl.com/5y87gw

"the American usage [of math] is an aberration" them's fightin' words, you limeys! Now where did I put my giant foam USA #1 finger?

so in the UK it's "maths" instead of "math", but "sport" instead of "sports". You brits need to get your story straight over there, man.

grease megamix http://tinyurl.com/6f3q9b