@friarminor my only Watchmen complaint is that some of the acting is bad. real bad. community theater (theatre, if we must) bad.

@matt_mcc said "I'll get right on it, after I've finished programming my programme!" I need me fish and chips with this one

@bradwilson sweet guitar faceplates :) http://www.flickr.com/photos/dotnetguy/3335010746/

@bradwilson so what's the verdict? Is IE8's compat mode "good enough" to subst for IE7 or is it back to virtual machines running IE7?

@omarshahine you need a time machine. Call Doc Brown. Go back to 1993 and deposit that MSFT stock. OUTATIME!

@betsyphd is complaining that Rockhard Awesome (working title for our baby boy) is now 4 days "late" http://is.gd/me1z

@donpark ack! Is jQuery UI 1.7 really 300kb *minified*? Sheesh.

@bertlamb because we package related javascript together. 1 request beats 5 requests, even if one of those requests is outsourced.

@luke that's a failing of the twitter system, not the user. DM reply should imply permission to DM for a day or so. Following does not scale

@chrispirillo no. f**k you to people on twitter who do not *ever* reply to @ messages directed at them. follower/follow ratio is meaningless

@ryanmeray sure, who needs target="_blank" anyway? *INVALID 4.01 STRICT*

@jarrod_dixon just asked, "which is worse, doing strict HTML validation, or your taxes?" Given the options, I'd pick death.

@jongalloway that Remote Desktop tweak requires Vista with SP1, just to be clear http://tinyurl.com/ao36g7

@rrwhite experiencing some catastrophic cache failures on UserVoice. URL for 1 item takes me to *completely* different item. sigh.

@kneath I'm just saying that the realities of wintel pricing are quite different now, and there are going to be some Wile E. Coyote moments

@dailygyan http://tinyurl.com/55tomh

@nathanbowers nobody gives a crap about "the social graph". Twitter gets that (by accident, probably). Facebook doesn't.

@kch you gotta work smarter, not harder. 6-8 weeks, baby! :)

@gbevin I think Silverlight has the same problem w/font rendering; as I recall, it has to do with position-anywhere and animation

@teifion do the math; 16 bit -> 32 bit is 65,000 times larger, 32 bit -> 64 bit is 4 BILLION times larger

@wilshipley dude, I've seen your fridge, and it is a one-stop-shop for identity theft. You have your driver's license up there, even!

@nathanbowers that was the Val Kilmer Iceman "intimidating tooth-snap bite" in case you were wondering

@lurst partly because Vista caches so much more aggressively than XP.. you never have more than ~20mb "free" memory

@mattcutts is the dayman, the fighter of the night man (aaaaaAAAAAHH!) Champion of the sun! http://tinyurl.com/6yofwp

@mabster typo. That should read "six to eight weeks."

@mattcutts is awesome. cats are awesome. @mattcutts + cats = DOUBLE PLUS AWESOME http://tinyurl.com/64yan6

@gvrv glad to hear stackoverflow is working well for you! "None of Us is as Dumb as All of Us." (tm)(r)(c) Despair Inc.

@zaphodgjd it's my favorite @geoffkeighley piece, I can only imagine what it was like to be part of the show! http://is.gd/lxye

@matiasnino except the lamp won't be worthless in 5 years :)

@wilshipley people should read http://tinyurl.com/a45rx to get context of who Graeme Devine ( @zaphodgjd ) is

@shanselman rt "Flat out best movie in the last 2-3 years? The epicly underappreciated Children of Men." Ditto!

@wilshipley I believe this was made for you, sir http://tinyurl.com/arotcm

@kebernet no need to freak out, I just thought it was funny! Also, I am typing this with my giant USA #1 foam fingers on both hands.

@jzy ok my best shopping cart hero is 2101.8 with full harem. http://www.monkeywantbanana.com/ShoppingCartHero/

@jzy go for the groupies first, they increase your multiplier (seriously!) http://www.monkeywantbanana.com/ShoppingCartHero/

@cshirky "Laptop+year of Net now cheaper than many print papers" not if you buy Apple hardware, it ain't. Just sayin'.

@NathanBowers wow, Mr. Incredible looks good there! So does that guy in the red suit, too!

@wilshipley if a girl doesn't talk to me for two weeks that means I have MORE in common with her: I don't like me either! LETS DATE

@chadmoran yeah I forgot to set background priority on that. whoops.

@wilshipley in 7zip mode, maxes out at 2 cores. in bzip2 mode, up to 16 threads. I set it to 8 for our server, and it's at 100% usage

@migueldeicaza request some Stryper!! http://assets.mog.com/pictures/wikipedia/105368/Stryperband.jpg

@dehora dead tree books are dead, too. That's why O'Reilly has Safari http://my.safaribooksonline.com/

@wilshipley why do you hate girl scouts so much? you're mean!

@skrenta TREASON UNCLOAKED!!1!, or, Geeks Gone Wild http://www.google.com/search?q="treason+uncloaked"

@wfs is awesome. Just sayin'.

@jongalloway "natural" ClearType applies spacing at the *word* level not just character. Interesting. http://is.gd/jHF1

@nathanbowers au contraire, mon frere. This is the ultimate "french" commercial. http://tinyurl.com/2gclep

@NathanBowers I pity people who worship at the altar of any company. I want to physically shake them and yell WAKE THE F**K UP in their face

@waxpancake Zen Bound iPhone game looks interesting but strange http://is.gd/kQuv

@mdavid there were a lot of "http/1.0" requests that *ASKED* for gzip. Mostly from proxies. This is a not-insignificant amount of traffic

@lennysan horrible on so many levels. if you want to see the future of Google failure, look no further than Knol. Also, it's just plain ugly

@jarrod_dixon I got you a present for your birthday, dawg! http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000BO6A86/

@danudey my experience is, people largely echo back to you the same stuff you're transmitting. Bile begets bile.

@danudey well, when people (literally!) spit in your face, I think you ought to take a long, hard look at your own behavior and attitude.

@aanttila pingbacks don't kill websites. People kill websites.

@nathanbowers I don't agree; I think it's not *sexy*, but that's not the same thing as punchline. Reality distortion field alert?

@nathanbowers Microsoft's online track record is dismal, but it's still better than Apple's. They are the anti-web. Sad but true.

@laurelatoreilly according to @althefierce : "all teacher salaries are public. It means a pay scale with a very slow growth." interesting

@brianhogg but chemicals and preservatives are so delicious! Exhibit A: Twinkies. http://www.hostesscakes.com/twinkies.asp

@markomni "If you respect your audience, then you can't sell" -- do you really believe this? Takes self-loathing to a whole other level..

@splattne I've seen the russian stack overflow, it's great! http://www.askdev.ru/

@richcampbell one thing is clear: Australia must be destroyed. Sorry kangaroos and koalas, you had it coming.

@cadbloke Bret: "What did [the potentially Australian girl's] accent sound like?" Jemaine: "Well, it sounded like my accent, but more evil."

@rexm we need to throttle new users more aggressively.. working on that now.

@jzy Adult Onset Autism (AOA) is a silent killer. Spread the word.

@betsyphd just informed me I need vaccinations before our son is born. Vaccines!? I don't know what's in that crap! Might be DANGEROUS!!

@nathanbowers associating multiple OpenIDs, sure, see here: http://tinyurl.com/cmfxrw

@siracusa you should blog about this post-RAID era. Sun's the only player in it? Really?

@spolsky I can't believe I have to explain the Hello Experiment to you. for shame sir. For shame. http://is.gd/k9TV

@joshhinman how is typing "at-symbol joshhinman" different than clicking reply arrow? Looks identical to me.. I'M A KEYBOARDIST DAMN IT

@jeremys and yet, I've never read a single story about slimy Google salespeople calling anyone, ever. Read multiple about Yelp. Difference?

@jeremys your salespeople are a liability. automate it, like Google does, so the algorithm makes the decision -- not sales quotas.

@jeremys then why should businesses pay you (Yelp) at all? Why have salespeople that call businesses and solicit?

@kevindente Yelp has a massive internal conflict of interest. They solicit money from the businesses that they're rating.

@encosia I just got confirmation, AdSense isn't required for FeedBurner. They're doing some sort of server migration.

@AndyLumb @kistaro this is at the high school level -- 9th through 12th graders, ages 14-18 years.

@kevindente holy crap userscripts.org has a lot of ads on it. OW MY BALLS! http://tinyurl.com/yonphh

@mabster working on the tag-based leaderboard. I have the data from my initial pass through all the answers.

@accordionguy I hate and fear Visual Studio creepy-eye guy http://secretgeek.net/vs2008_bugeye.asp

@waxpancake pointed to the Twitter launch post. That logo should be ILLEGAL. http://tinyurl.com/nfu2v

@blackhorse so true, the DiHydrogen Monoxide one was brilliant http://tinyurl.com/5t9e8s

@wilshipley it depends on the episode of Penn & Teller's Bullshit. Some are better than others. The bottled water one was epic.

@timbray aren't Web Hooks just like trackbacks.. which had a fatal flaw in that they had zero protection from spam?

@anildash LOLCATS! http://tinyurl.com/95gzbt

@encosia yep, looks like it was a semi-global intarwebs problem http://tinyurl.com/cpln6l

@jonskeet it's best not to ask those questions and enjoy the delicious sausage! =8-D

@jeffmoser well said, but Stack Overflow is more of a sausage factory where we grind up meat and bones http://is.gd/jGnG

@jamesmarcusbach "the first thing we did was argue for two hours" http://is.gd/jGAV

@jarrod_dixon you are my Fizzgig, lol http://tinyurl.com/5lezv2

@timbray are you referring to Ships and Shippers? Helps to add links, for context.. no? http://is.gd/bEoS

@dorianmuthig the calculation is complicated, because of Burstable billing and 95th percentile; multi-gb backups not good http://is.gd/jDsQ

@saraford you liked "The Happening"? Seriously?

@prestemon I'd have more respect for IMVU if it was a porn site. At least that's honest.

@encosia we already updated our server NIC drivers remotely once: http://tinyurl.com/ampvee

@donpark thanks, your notarized Atwood Real Ultimate Programming Power System Certification is in the mail. Also, here is invoice for $500.

@jongalloway bid one dollar!! You've been on the Price Is Right, you know how this works!!

@superdalgas cool! that reminds me of the PowerRisers http://tinyurl.com/3df2ej

@charasan this is the classic algorithm book we used in college -- http://is.gd/jutm

@wilshipley hate mormons? Yet *another* reason to watch Big Love Season 3! As if you needed one!

@antumbral well, let's just say 3d chat avatar dress-up software was not the cure for cancer I had hoped it would be.