I don't want to blog about an advertisement because that, in itself, furthers the advertisement. I'd be giving the ad free PR. No thanks.

so let me get this straight. You guys are saying that I shouldn't believe everything I see in advertisements? Wait, let me write that down.

man, supporting searches for "c++" and "c#" is a big PITA

as anyone who listens to our podcast knows, this IS my hobby http://www.xkcd.com/148/

FizzBuzz Enterprise Edition http://code.google.com/p/fizzbuzz/

"I've just come from the past to tell you that you're kind of a dick." http://tinyurl.com/2wgazd

it's so romantic, late at night, with just me and the code. Yeah, it's ugly, and it barely works, but it's all mine.

wow, a viable alternative to the pure evil of The Dark TicketMaster Cabal -- http://www.brownpapertickets.com/

"Because I know you'd come after me first." http://tinyurl.com/37f9po

"efficiency amplifies our native laziness"

Obama's secret muslim birth certificate -- REVEALED!! http://img389.imageshack.us/img389/2392/colmkbtwlaf0.gif

Scoble's post turned into a PR leg humping frenzy in the comments ( http://is.gd/1o1a ). The PR people are so dumb it's almost endearing.

I'll definitely donate $50 to JQuery project, they've easily earned it!

Jörn Zaefferer helped me figure out the JQuery.Validate Opera problem -- looks like debug: true on the validate setup was the culprit!

If you can get our JQuery.Validate code to work in Opera 9.5x on beta.stackoverflow, I'll pay you $50. Good luck. You're gonna need it.

News flash: Opera still sucks. I'd like to pay the developers to stop making this browser.

ok, so wordpress openid only works if you actually have a blog set up with them. OpenID is awesome, but still.. er.. rough.

looking for a non-javascript captcha that renders via HTML, no images needed. Not ASCII art, not Canvas, but.. something else.

(but it doesn't count if I use my Pepsi Points, I think) http://is.gd/1nGS

god help me, I am about to buy the most unwanted song on Amazon MP3. Universe implodes. http://is.gd/1nGS

"At track 4 my soul broke in two and i stopped listening." Mission.. ACCOMPLISHED http://is.gd/1mZI

sorry, I had forgotten how truly *horrible* Menudo's "Cannonball" really was. Here's some "Hold Me" to clean your palate: http://is.gd/1nD2

the intersection between wiki and forum is proving to be.. interesting.. on Stack Overflow. Not a lot of precedent for what we're trying.

another day, more gmail oddities. "The future's so dark, I gotta wear a headlamp. I gotta wear.. a headlamp." http://is.gd/1ntl

Can the improved SQL Server 2008 tools (I hear it has intellisense for SQL?) be used against a 2005 instance?

VS 2008 SP1 also installed a ".NET Framework ClickOnce assistant" add-on in Firefox 3. Nice!

"This came at a surprise to me because I didn’t know OS X had user experience flaws" http://is.gd/1mzJ

"If I made you feel second best, I'm so sorry, I was blind" http://tinyurl.com/356x85

new batman pinball game glamour shots http://www.pinballnews.com/games/batman/index3.html

I can never get tired of hearing the Pina Colada song. Rupert Holmes is a fuggin genius.

awesome, someone posted my "Music to (Not) Code By" on MixWit! ROCKIN! http://www.mixwit.com/widgets/e65bc88e4706d1652b3c845336fc4acc

The Green Lantern does Shatner's "Tambourine Man". http://tinyurl.com/5v284k

life goal: buy every item in the Archie McPhee catalog http://www.mcphee.com/items/M6103.html

Cat plays theremin. I'm sorry. http://video.yahoo.com/watch/2379300/7425213

here's what happens to you when you work for Yahoo! Video / Jumpcut in SF : http://video.yahoo.com/watch/2367954/7398270

spongy wonder noseless bike saddle http://www.spongywonder.com/

useful GSM telephone speaker buzz noise solution http://tinyurl.com/2t5qp4

"Threaded forums are like droppings from Satan's ass." I have yet to see a threaded forum design that doesn't make me hate it and myself.

Yahoo Answers, keepin' it real... stupid. http://q.queso.com/archives/002305

UFC: There Are No Rules! (Except These 31 Rules) http://tinyurl.com/5b45dw

John K. does the 2008 presendential race in rubber figurines http://tinyurl.com/5wq3ae

are you guys seriously proposing that my wife set up her own Exchange server to sync her calendar over the web with the iPhone?

find a worse brand name than Knol contest "winners", er, I mean, losers: http://is.gd/1lrJ

iPhone seems dependent on iCal / Outlook to sync calendar, which is bizarre to me -- just grab the calendar directly from the web!

"The only regex engines that allow you to use a full regular expression inside lookbehind are JGsoft and .NET." THATS RIGHT BITCHES

regex negative lookbehind is one of those crazy things that you rarely need, but when you need it, you REALLY need it http://is.gd/1lpk

This fluid.app is interesting; http://fluidapp.com/ a logical reaction to "this browser tab is not like the 49+ others I have open"

I wish Joseph Campbell had written a book examining the complex mythology of Warrant's Cherry Pie video http://is.gd/1l6S

bad sun rising: woke up with the NKOTB song "I'll be loving you forever" in my head for absolutely no reason whatsoever http://is.gd/1l6J

maybe I'm in the minority, but Why's Poignant Guide makes me not want to learn Ruby, but rather punch someone in the face.

oh McSweeney's, you bring teh funnay. "Corrections to last month's Letters to Penthouse Forum" http://is.gd/1fvD

the mystery of the uppercase "I" in English http://is.gd/1kLO

the booing of the l.a. air guitar contestant is great - norcal vs. socal

at us air guitar championships in downtown sf

OK, if you quit the site in a huff because I sent you a nice email asking you not to edit people's posts adding "funny" badges to them.. bye

well, we have our first completely pissed off Stack Overflow user. Social websites FTL.

the lack of ability to vertical-align in a div is killing me. wtf?

the sound of the seagulls intermixed with the presentations is sort of surreal #start08

2. make sure that "problem" I referred to in #1 isn't that you are not yet rich

1. build something that solves a problem in your life.

marc hedlund's "business for geeks" is excellent (wesabi) #start08

oh, you follow your heart? not me, I follow my pancreas.

whenever I see someone using windows I like to imagine DHH standing over them, grimacing and shaking his head

rode bike to #start08 and nearly died. damn you hilly sf!!

LOL, a user made this crackoverflow dot com logo http://kevinx.net/crackoverflow.jpg

boba fett + stop motion + flashdance = awesome http://is.gd/1hYm

dramatic cat. much better than expected, I must say http://tinyurl.com/59kp2t

the best thing about our startup? We don't need the craptastic social "news" sites (*crunch, rww, mashable, etc) to succeed.

I am *SO* getting myself a magic flying candy-dropping pony.

"Users who want critical bug fixes and new features without actually upgrading their software also want magic flying candy-dropping ponies."

srsly, why are people still using IE6. Get off the crack pipe, already. Damn.

I keep telling you: it's like an octopus opening a can of zebras. http://tinyurl.com/5gvvh2

expert-sex-change, your days are numbered! our stack overfloweth in your general direction!

coding: it's like typing, but with more syntax errors!

In retrospect, I do believe Public Enemy had an exaggerated sense of self-importance. http://tinyurl.com/6p63cz

"one day you will walk down the street and see someone you don't know wearing your shirt."

man, we get *so* many exceptions out of the DotNetOpenId. I guess the real "unit tests" should be based on remote OpenID providers, not code

Yahtzee in fine form; his Ninja Gaiden 2 review may be the best yet: http://is.gd/1ha5

sweet, 120gb Xbox 360 hard drive arrived from Hong Kong ($100). Xferring. Looking forward to running games off the HDD (with disc in drive)

gearing up for Start conference tommorow. http://thestartconference.com/ Is it foldable bike time? Oh HELL yes.

"we call it the 'so' vius" http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2008/04/so.php

Sweeeet! Grand Theft Auto PC is coming Nov 18: http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/54059

it's cool that you can use two-factor auth with some OpenID providers http://is.gd/1hi8 (via @omarshahine)

me: "see that unclosed bold tag?" jarrod: "mac fonts look bold anyway, let me try it on XP" oh, the lolz..

Interpreted code is generally an order of magnitude slower, ala PHP: http://tinyurl.com/5laxh5

domino's online pizza tracker is, like, *ridiculously* hi-tech

"See you at the debate, bitches." http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/64ad536a6d

( to be clear, previous tweet is from http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099685/quotes )

ok if you want to sign up for the Stack Overflow beta, try this: http://tinyurl.com/6j9pm9

wufoo = 100 entries/month, survemonkey = 100 responses max. No go. Google spreadsheets form.. hmm!

let's say I want to have a beta signup, but I don't want to write silly beta signup page code -- ideas? Wiki is no go, makes emails visible.

OK, the uservoice page is WAYYY too AJAXy for its own good. Annoying. Breaks my expected back button behavior. Not wrong, but.. bad.

"There was a hoax. A dreadful hoax. They made you miss everything." http://tinyurl.com/3dfor8

I think it's clearly Funky Cold Medina time http://tinyurl.com/2d5w7z

@orph @LaTtEX and for reference, upmod = +10, downmod = -2 to them, -1 to you.

"automatically protects blogs, forums, and other online conversations from annoying comments" http://lemurcatta.org/

@diveintomark the key difference, I think, is that bloggers ain't sharecroppin' on massa Google's farm

@diveintomark congrats on your first conflict of interest post http://tinyurl.com/6j3bwj

@drylight Yelp works well, but there's some conflict of interest there -- they want businesses to pay for "enhanced" listings

"We posted a bad review about Yelp that they did this, but they removed that one" nice. http://is.gd/1f3j