Good leadership is important, to be sure, but is there anything more boring than politics? Eh, it's a rhetorical question.

dinosaur comics does some name-dropping http://www.qwantz.com/archive/000069.html

insanely detailed list of subtle differences in Regex flavor backslash handling http://tinyurl.com/5kye33

Not that I'm bitter or anything. I love spending hours on deep technical issues so .05% of the internet can get to our site. It's awesome.

here's my advice to the Opera team: MAKE. YOUR. BROWSER. WORK. ON. THE. INTERNET. y'know, before you ship it. kthxbye

I demand that all references to the Opera browser now be automatically followed by http://www.sadtrombone.com/

oh look, Opera 9.52 fixed some major issues people were having on our site. SHOCKER. http://www.sadtrombone.com/

retro space, a very pretty and clean MAME cabinet design http://www.retrospace.nl/history.html

"you don't want a boyfriend, what you want is Mr. Spock" http://tinyurl.com/59bckl

I still have my Quake Collector's Edition box set with this incredibly dumb Doom comic book : http://is.gd/1NY8

retweet @HMXCasey -- USA wins world air guitar championships! http://www.airguitarworldchampionships.com/2008/EN/home.html (go alameda!)

thx @madtech @allgood2 for DM to people you don't follow, just use any reply to DM. Change the number after 'create' to name. Reload. Send!

Post-concert confirmation: The Bends is still the best Radiohead album. It's in my top 10 of all time, probably, so I don't need the catalog

"I wanted to meet interesting and stimulating people of an ancient culture, and kill them." http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093058/

headed to outside lands concert in sf: beck, radiohead

yeah, our userbase is our "unit testing". what of it? you got a problem with that? want to take it outside?

“This is all your app is: a collection of tiny details.”

OK, whoever it was at Wikipedia and MSDN that decided to allow URLS containing (), I'd like to punch them square in the nuts

Hot or Not: Wendy's french fries dipped in a Frosty?

Due to the end of civilization, CCN is now off the air. We hope you've enjoyed our programming, but most of all, we hope you've enjoyed life

"they introduced Baby Jabba aka Rotta the Huttlet aka Stinky" Oh man, the new animated Star Wars is apparently a new series low.

writing anti-people throttle code. the fact that it happens to catch bots, too, is a pleasant side-effect.

"when the truth is found, to be lieeeeeeeeeees" http://tinyurl.com/yf4nmj

"try to avoid peacock terms which merely promote the subject of the article without imparting real information"

Comet -- the reverse of AJAX. "peacock terms"? WTF? http://tinyurl.com/2ajvwa

"With an original you get to hear Geddy Lee do his impersonation of a cat being strangled, whereas with covers they strangle an actual cat."

Rock Band 'zine! next week's DLC, the full Rush album "Moving Pictures" http://www.rockband.com/newsletter/1/

"I think Crispin Glover is more stable than Twitter." from Herding Code podcast -- http://herdingcode.com/?p=36

for those of you with access to SO, the deadlock question id is 20047

I know, I'll just post this SO problem on SO! The system, she troubleshoots herself! Note: these are rare, like 5 per day rare.

NEWS FLASH! GOOGLE SLIGHTLY ADJUSTS RESULTS BAR COLOR! http://tinyurl.com/6pgfz6

Great showdowns of the 8-bit era http://tinyurl.com/6kwfsh

I'm actually *surprised* now when I get the Fail Whale. Now that, my friends, is what I like to call "progress".

I'll always remember that one Taco Bell employee in Denver, the one with "f**k you" tatooed on his knuckles. Now THAT'S customer service.

Mirror's Edge looks INCREDIBLE. Holy friggin' crap. http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/54296

via @lazycoder I believe this shot captures the essential essence of gui programming http://is.gd/1LY1

@schwarzwald 's profile pic mesmerizes me http://tinyurl.com/632nc8

I really wish I didn't have to keep getting the "Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool" every month. Also, our ecosystem sucks.

"I was a little disturbed that.. we've built a system.. for discussing the system." http://tinyurl.com/5vwl9k

can't outsource Stack Overflow RSS. "Hey Feedburner, syndicate RSS for 5,000 users, 500 tags + custom user feeds, kthxbye!"

I know a *large* percentage of Coding Horror traffic was redundant requests to my RSS feed before I outsourced the pain to FeedBurner

RSS ought to stand for "rape someone's server" because man, agents pull down RSS about 1,000 times more often than they need to

Hmm, maybe that runs-every-60 seconds background query that took 27 seconds to run (!) was the source of our deadlock problems.. perhaps

is there ever a day that there *isn't* a "tattoo expo" somewhere in the sf bay area?

starting to wish stackoverflow was public so I could link to some of my stupid code bugs I've posted that you might find amusing

I guess the real lesson is when someone gives you money, there are ALWAYS strings attached, even if not immediately visible. That's my bad.

"you can't even pay them to not suck." not a fair characterization of my post, methinks http://is.gd/1K3i

I know it's ancient, but Little Superstar = still awesome http://tinyurl.com/rztzr

There's gotta be a special place in font hell for Arial. http://www.ms-studio.com/articles.html

I just realized that YouTube is pretty much MTV for this generation

Don't You Want to Know How We Keep Starting Fires? http://tinyurl.com/2oq4z5

Mr. Rogers + clown mask = the stuff of nightmares http://tinyurl.com/5ovhol

Dead Kennedys, or Dead Milkmen?

I'm with @KevinPang ; screw web fonts. Totally not worth the headache, as much as I love Calibri's hand-tweaked RGB aliasing.. sob.

More info on the aggravating Office 2k7 / Vista "C" font sizing issues http://tinyurl.com/5ty2rm

Looks like I'll be dropping Colibri due to the -1 sizing issue, and switching to.. Arial. must.. suppress.. gag.. reflex..

@bigjim the "this font renders smaller than other fonts" problem is almost a CSS showstopper -- need conditional font-sizing in CSS

wow, I didn't realize that the Calibri font was so small relative to other fonts. Almost -1! This makes CSS styling *really* difficult..

george carlin on golf http://tinyurl.com/5rpk72

these sql server 2005 deadlocks we're getting are really quite disturbing. LINQ-to-sql doesn't make it easy to nolock reads either

After using FF3 exclusively for months, I would SWEAR on a stack of bibles that IE7 still renders sites faster. Maybe just rendering strat.

oh wait, previous referred to JAVASCRIPT. My bad. So client-side javascript will have this regex \w not matching int'l chars problem, then.

I don't think \w does that? http://www.hanselman.com/blog/InternationalizedRegularExpressions.aspx haven't tested yet.

ok, so regex A-Za-z doesn't allow ÀÈÌÒÙàèìòùÁÉÍÓÚÝáéíóúýÂÊ ÎÔÛâêîôûÃÑÕãñõÄËÏÖÜäëïöü çÇßØøÅåÆæÞþÐð -- ?? that sucks.

"FF3 memory usage would spiral out of control and hang or crash after a few hrs of use for me, and [Flash 10 beta] seems to have fixed it."

wingdings 2: "the revenge of wingdings"

"You people and your slight differences disgust me!" http://tinyurl.com/3cak28

I feel like Steve Martin in the Jerk. All I need.. is this StringBuilder.. and this Regex.. and that's all I need.. http://is.gd/1FHx

thinking of representing age as a GUI progress bar between baby and tombstone

Who knew the Beastie Boys music would stand the test of time? I don't think anyone saw *that* coming. http://is.gd/1FfN

remember the "wearing our clothes backwards" trend in hip-hop? I miss that. http://tinyurl.com/2va3sd

"the Fine Art of Building Shit that Nobody Wants" http://tinyurl.com/6gluwt

ELMAH was written exactly the opposite of the way I'd have written it. I like to call it "explosion at the pattern factory" code.

looks like there's a weird fix for the DBML LINQ V2k8 SP1 problem! http://tinyurl.com/5vl9aa

crap, Visual Studio 2008 SP1 breaks the LINQ to SQL design surface in our proj -- saving dbml results in zero generated model classes. :(

Chalkboard: the Thinking Man's Comic Sans

orrrrr.. "white-space:nowrap"

"if no width is set [on a floated div] the results can be unpredictable." I see that now.. hrm. would like div to clear if too wide. How?

It is amazing to me that Stack Overflow, and all the JQuery / Markdown preview JS, renders *perfectly* on the iPhone.

the lack of good vertical-align support for DIVs is making tables a lot more prevalent in our site design than I intended

can't stop thinking about corn smut http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn_smut

ok, not starting with the no-javascript path in our http form auth was a HUGE mistake. ugh.

"It's frequently called Maize Mushroom, Corn Smut, and Mexican Truffle." O.M.G. http://tinyurl.com/3whqy

How to perform the Universal Edibility Test http://tinyurl.com/6fumlo

Did you know? @nathanbowers can freakin' rock the mic on vocals AND play guitar at the same time in Rock Band. Impressive! The man can sing!

at Rudys Cant Fail Cafe with @nathanbowers and @betsyphd

I'm not failing; I'm merely deferring my success. http://odetocode.com/blogs/scott/archive/2005/07/26/1984.aspx

"Transaction (n) was deadlocked on lock resources with another process and has been chosen as the deadlock victim". Hello new friend!

How to tell you're serious about minimalism: your business card is completely blank.

another day, another random Skype chat request from foreign woman wearing only undergarments. Chicks are SOOOO into me, dog. I rule.

fountain that prints characters using water and gravity. Much cooler than it sounds.. http://tinyurl.com/6eqx48

why aren't you following @cobracommander yet?

I BLAME ME

#1 topic of discussion on Stack Overflow by tag count? Stack Overflow. sigh.

just booked flight to PAX later this month, gonna be fun. Big ups to @cisellis who hooked me up with tickets and a place to crash! <3

wow, string differencing algorithms are pretty gnarly. k-rad, even.

the "back button" has to be the single most important web UI paradigm. So powerful, in so many contexts.

here's what's wrong with PR people. They fail the 1st rule of *all* relationships: if you seem needy/pushy/clingy, nobody will want you.

Redheads not warheads / Blondes not bombs / We're talkin' about brunettes not fighter jets http://is.gd/8FR

I learned the awesome power of the "silent treatment" early in my life from reading The Great Brain books. http://is.gd/1qOR it *kills*.