I was born on Groundhog Day and this was a family joke...

oh, nice. Amazon is giving book concordances now. :-)

Yes, I’m going to do a randomized factorial trial of...

Luas Construction... it could be worse!

This is genius. From Pundit Kitchen

“[This photograph is copyright by Sarah McCarthy and may not...”
— Explaining copyright to the...

“Nutrition science, in my opinion, is sort of where surgery...”
— Michael Pollan at google

“Instead, the government fashioned an extra-legal solution....”
— Sally Jenkins in The Real All...

Where would you like to be 5 years from...

“Let me show you how I’ll do the job. If I can pull this off, then hire me. If you prefer...

scratch the CVV code off of your card

Wikipedia's Lamest Edit Wars

“It’s no problem to apply a 0.2 Newton preload to a...”
— Kellar Autumn in a National...

“Java is a ceremonious language because it needs you to do...”
— Ola Bini on the distinction...

The Monty Hall Problem

I had a very hard time accepting the truth of the Monty Hall problem the first time I heard it, but...

“[count]<C-a> Increments the last number in URL by 1,...”
— Accidentally discovered...

“The guitarist attributed U2’s longevity to a consensus-based...”
— U2 endorse Agent Based...

“He told BBC Radio 4’s World At One programme that if...”
— Willie Walsh evidently thinks...

“When, in our heterogeneous community, a man and a woman...”
— From The Truce by Primo Levy.

Brilliant Way to Dispense Drugs

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OT: I really, really, really love yanking URLs. Source for...

Who says programmers are bad at UI design?!

Keyboard Driven Browsing

So, I’ve been thinking it would be nice to do less mousy browsing and control Firefox using...

Chapter 3: Starting and Stopping ANA.

World Wide Telescope

My favourite thing about Google...

…is the search feature. So if you read something in your feed and forget to bookmark it, you...

Carl Sagan's Search for God

I already didn't like Blackboard...

Why are the t-shirts not black on red? Sort of misses the...

Best. Onion. Ever.

Yeah, as if we LaTeX-obsessed people are going to be suckers...

See, everyone I’ve ever told this idea to, I’m...

mmm... coffee...

“It must oscillate between a state of bafflement and...”
— Malcolm Gladwell had me in...

Click on the image to download the Microsoft .docx/.xlsx...

Nonpartisan Voter Services for US Citizens...

I love this song.

universally_available_helpers

overriding initialize from an included module...

Everything in the Java classpath is...

This has to be the worst designed invoice/VAT analysis I...

Origins of Syphilis

Magnetic Plasma Shields

I wasn't quick enough to watch Ze Frank's...

oldTimes <- sapply(1:20, function(i)...

“Apparently, if you can’t use an IDE to automatically rename...”
— I still remember how happy I...

i miss java...

Richard Stallman successfully compiled a...

The Ring and I

Act Three. Babies Buying Babies.

Amazingly, I got this one right first time! Thanks for the...

This is why you have automated builds...

Daily WTF Coding Like the Tour de France

This made my day. Thanks for the tip @wexxie!

Life's Little Coincidences, the J. Barkley...

James Cox on the Ruby on Rails Podcast

“Effective January 1, 2008 the Non-immigrant Visa Application...”
— The dollar is worth less,...

“If you get a headache when you try to figure out how the...”
— Terence Parr, author of ANTLR,...

“Enforced originality! If someone repeats something that has...”
— The ROBOT9000 irc channel...

A classic!

Scientists for Better PCR Is Not Funny

Bio-Rad, your song is not funny. In fact, it’s creepy. Let me guess, some marketing company...

VisualBots

My Slow, Slow Brain

Idiopidae. A burrowing spider. Hence a spider with no web. noweb.

“I don’t know of any other software other than TeX...”
— Birthday tribute to Don Knuth...

“Now you can have a second Yahoo! email address to use just...”
— I just can’t contain...

“We wouldn’t want our data warehouse customers to be...”
— p.8 The Data Warehouse...

“Yggdrasil focuses on syntax trees, their decoration and...”
— Geeks + Linguistics :-) From...

Project Euler Statistics Page

Always, always, always bring one of these along when you...

Pair Exchange

Idea for freelancers, hobbyists and other solo coders: have a “pair exchange” programme...

Totally Fab Coding Brunch

Wow, having so much fun coding and chatting with fellow rubyists and friends. Many thanks to our...

My apparent capitulation in no way changes what I said...

Graham Linehan's Formula Revealed

Father Ted: Ted, Dougal, Mrs. Doyle Black Books: Bernard, Manny, Fran IT Crowd: Roy, Moss, Jen 1...

“The intended audience range from adults whose background was...”
— Project Euler clearly must be...

“That makes it hard for the layperson to distinguish between...”
— oh noez the FT broke our...

“Believe it or not, one of the things I will miss most is not...”
— Andy Olmsted’s in the...

<%= TEMPLATE_MESSAGE %>

Don’t actually write this: # THIS FILE IS AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED. DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE. in...

Preorder RailsConf T-Shirts Now

Skitchpick

v. To nitpick via the medium of an annotated screenshot posted to a photo sharing website....

“Type ‘x***ware. com’ in your |E (please remove...”
— No, I’m not going to...

“The author suggests that the City of London is presently...”
— See? Spreadsheets are evil....

Winter sunrise over the Liffey this morning. No snow in the...

The copyright notice from The I.T. Crowd Version 2.0 DVD.

I found this amusing.

A History of Nauru is A History of The World

“hopefully I won’t get killed or mugged before I get to...”
— No, he made it that far....

Rails should ship with an ironic default 503 which tries to...

“Take your time choosing your furniture. You’ll be...”

$:.unshift File.dirname(__FILE__) Explained...

Generate PDFs using Ruby, Safari and...