I’m distressed when my coworkers don’t know their backslash from their forward slash so I draw this to help them remember which is which.
Answers those questions like “When will the Sun boil away the Earth’s oceans?” and “When will the Sun burn out?”, but brings up new questions like which supercontinent configuration will win? I’m hoping for Pangea Ultima as it has the best name.
“Both men bought tickets that gave them unlimited first-class travel for life on American Airlines. “
“He was airborne almost every other day. If a friend mentioned a new exhibit at the Louvre, Rothstein thought nothing of jetting from his Chicago home to San Francisco to pick her up and then fly to Paris together.”
“She pulled years of flight records for Rothstein and Vroom and calculated that each was costing American more than $1 million a year.”
So! Here is the trailer for a web series I’ll be hosting, where I chat with cool people over actual alcoholic drinks. We’ve shot a dozen of these so far and I am grateful to have been asked to host them. I got to have interesting conversations with strangers and friends alike.
It goes live on Monday 5/7!
Internet terms!
Blake Boston of the Scumbag Steve meme writes an open letter to the woman in the Annoying Facebook Girl meme.
Breakdown of the STL’s implementation of next_permutation. Ever wondered how that works?
Perfect Stranges video game (via The World Deserves A Perfect Strangers Video Game. Now, It Has One. [Perfect Strangers])
Do Cute Kids Like Radiohead? - “Paranoid Android” - You Review #09 (by noisey)
“I don’t think he’s got any friends”. Harsh.
As Hammond explained what he did, the critic became agitated. Times are tough enough in journalism, he said, and now you’re going to replace writers with robots? “I just looked at him,” Hammond recalls, “and asked him: Have you ever seen a reporter at a Little League game? That’s the most important thing about us. Nobody has lost a single job because of us.” At least not yet.
This document defines several Structured Syntax Suffixes for use with media type registrations. In particular, it defines and registers the “+json”, “+ber”, “+der”, “+fastinfoset”, “+wbxml” and “+zip” Structured Syntax Suffixes, and updates the “+xml” Structured Syntax Suffix registration.
Overview of Google’s fuzzing security practices for Chrome.
Flickr’s new HTML5-ish photo upload feature technical overview.
(via Descriptive Camera)
A digital camera sends photos to Mechanical Turk service to generate a textual description and print the result on a thermal printer. Thus a camera that prints out a textual description of what you photographed.
(via DIY Building Blocks Furniture)
Its jumbo Legos to make furniture. At least in theory very cool, although I wonder about the comfort of a chair made from this.
This line is as good as/better than the
“Yes, I am serious and don’t called me shirley.” line thing.
Some rights reserved