The Cave

Nicely summarizes the problems. That 1st point’s a killer, IMO. Way too hard for the majority of uses – gains are usually disproportionate to the pains. Does that strike you as a good equation?

A little girl was talking to her teacher about whales. The teacher said it was physically impossible for a whale to swallow a human because even though it was a very large mammal its throat was very small. The little girl stated that Jonah was swallowed by a whale. Irritated, the teacher reiterated that a [...]

Yes. I’m a disciple. Not entirely of my own choosing, and not entirely pointlessly. Blizzard offered a 10-day free trial. I noticed this while I was checking the release dates of upcoming games on Gamespot. Alas, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Clear Sky and Fallout 3, the games I’ve mainly been awaiting for a while, were still a couple [...]

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Possibly why McCain wouldn’t look at Obama during the debate.

Ouch.

From here : Dial *3001#12345#* then press “Call.” A dB reading below 50 generally indicates good strength.

Not all so hidden , but some less well known. The JavaBean property change notation and resource loading from deployment jar are two examples.

Neat .

Real range testing via Python .

“Middle age is when you’re faced with two temptations and you choose the one that will get you home by 9 o’clock.” -Ronald Reagan

Even better, solid information on uncommon (and poorly understood) Unicode handling in Python .

My wife’s term as we were discussing Sarah Palin.

He mostly did NOT point out how these issues matter to American voters, and provided even less guidance on the kinds of things he would do about them. … McCain struck me as someone rooted in the past, looking backwards (as my wife put it, “the cranky old guy telling stories”), whereas Obama is someone rooted in today and looking to the future.

“Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.”

Excepts from Theodore Roosevelt’s speech, O sawatomie, Kansas on August 31, 1910: “No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned. … It is of profound importance that our financial system should be promptly investigated, and so thoroughly and effectively revised as to make it certain that hereafter our currency will no longer fail at critical times to meet our needs.”

Interesting read.

One of the passages in the original bailout (yes, call a spade a spade) proposal that most troubled me: Decisions by the Secretary pursuant to the authority of this Act are non-reviewable and committed to agency discretion, and may not be reviewed by any court of law or any administrative agency. If you don’t understand why that’s a problem, see the link.

How the current mortgage fiasco came about in a few simple (easy to grasp) paragraphs.

The comments have a lot of useful links including Scheme, Python, Perl, C, C++, Java, PHP, Algol, Prolog, SNOBOL and more, plus Rosetta Code for multiple language solutions (neat site) and Got API sounds neat (need to check out when I hit a net connection…).

List of (all) the Simpsons’ chalkboard gags (the 1st one being “I will not waste chalk” Some of the classics: I will not waste chalk I am not a 32 year old woman (Nancy Cartwright, Bart’s voice, was at the time I will not pledge allegiance to Bart I will not cut corners (on 3 lines, the remainder all “ditto”) I will not carve gods I will not teach others to fly My homework was not stolen by a one-armed man I am not delightfully saucy The Pledge of Allegiance does not end with “Hail Satan” I will not re-transmit without the express permission of Major League Baseball I will not use abbrev Cursive writing does not mean what I think it means A fire drill does not demand a fire I will not demand what I’m worth (This is a reference to the voice cast’s recent demands for higher pay.) No one cares what my definition of “is” is I have not been there nor done that I won’t not use no double negatives (3 negatives, so the sentence is true) Substitute teachers are not scabs Non-flammable is not a challenge I was not touched “there” by an angel I will not plant sublimin al messa gore s (aired two days before the 2000 U.S. presidential election) SpongeBob is not a contraceptive Global Warming did not eat my homework There is no such thing as an iPoddy The capital of Montana is not “Hannah”

Jon laying into ‘the news media’. “Partisan hackery”, among other comments – with the explanation behind the opinion.

# On Windows, the best timer is time.clock()<br />

…# On most other platforms the best timer is time.time()<br />

Onion News Network. Amusing, in a scary sort of way. Check out the news ticker scrolling by in the bottom.

Heh