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Wikipedia’s alternate names for the slash include stroke, solidus, and separatrix.
humor wikipedia typography slash 2010 Dec 6, 12:17Ye olde DoS: "The Berners Street Hoax was perpetrated by Theodore Hook in the City of Westminster, London, in 1809. Hook had made a bet with his friend, Samuel Beazley, that he could transform any
house in London into the most talked-about address in a week, which he achieved by sending out thousands of letters in the name of Mrs Tottenham, who lived at 54 Berners Street, requesting
deliveries, visitors, and assistance."
humor history prank 2010 Mar 12, 11:11"All of the sculpted noses on the planet Viltvodle VI were fashioned after Douglas Adams' own. The creators used a 3D model he had created for the game Starship Titanic." The noses mentioned in the
previous sentence were depicted in the movie in a church. The religion of this church maintains that the universe was created by their god sneezing out the universe and so they have statues of their
god's nose throughout the church. Of course this is intended to seem absurd, however based on the previous sentence -- that the nose belonged to Douglas Adams -- then they really were worshping the
nose of their creator.
douglas-adams book hhgttg movie religion nose 2010 Jan 18, 3:24"UVB-76 is the callsign of a shortwave radio station that usually broadcasts on the frequency 4625 kHz (AM full carrier). It's known among radio listeners by the nickname The Buzzer. It features a
short, monotonous buzz tone (help·info), repeating at a rate of approximately 25 tones per minute, for 24 hours per day. The station has been observed since around 1982.[1] In rare occasions, the
buzzer signal is interrupted and a voice transmission in Russian takes place. Only four such events have been noted. There is much speculation; however, the actual purpose of this station remains
unknown." Inspiration for Lost?
radio russia mystery 2009 Jul 20, 8:07Includes plenty of variations on the quote like Grey's Law: "Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice."
humor quote paranoia 2009 May 3, 8:07Wikipedia's list of observatories in Washington.
wikipedia list todo observatory washington tourist 2009 Mar 11, 1:24Penn & Teller's unreleased videogame included a minigame 'Desert Bus': 'The objective of the game is to drive a bus from Tucson, Arizona to Las Vegas, Nevada in real time at a maximum speed of
45mph, a feat that would take the player 8 hours of continuous play to complete, as the game cannot be paused.'
desert-bus penn-and-teller videogame humor wikipedia 2008 Jun 2, 12:57A card game where 'new players are often told only "the only rule you may be told is this one."'. '...the game being a parody of life in the People's Republic of China during the Cultural Revolution,
where the laws changed secretly..."
card history politics game legal parody 2008 May 12, 1:18"Felix Mendelssohn - Symphonie 3 a-moll - 4. Allegro vivacissimo - Allegro maestoso assai"
music classical wiki 2008 May 9, 9:32"The CSS2 specification adopted Microsoft's @font-face rule as the standard method for embedding fonts. However, Safari is the only browser other than Internet Explorer that supports @font-face, and
it supports TrueType fonts instead of EOT fonts."
font text web webdesign microsoft browser safari ie css 2008 Mar 28, 10:38Running time of regular expression matching. Most modern regex APIs do backtracking and can have exponential running time depending on the regex string.
regex programming reference wikipedia big-oh running-time 2008 Jan 18, 7:00Overview article on the functionings of GPS.
gps reference wikipedia article electronics radio 2007 Dec 27, 5:33A programming language written on a 2D plane with arrows pointing up, down, left, right to control the flow of execution.
geek humor language programming wiki wikipedia befunge 2007 Oct 8, 3:18More on Singularity the managed microkernel based Microsoft Research OS.
singularity os wikipedia article microsoft research microkernel 2007 Aug 9, 11:02This guy has some funny bits on Current (Al Gore's station)
brett-erlich humor video google current 2007 Jul 3, 9:22The complement of goto is comefrom. Pretty funny.
humor programming comefrom goto 2007 May 24, 10:48Whenever I see references to Ray Ozzie (Chief Software Arch at MS) I always think of Ozzie the evil guy from Chrono Trigger.
wikipedia article wiki ozzie chronotrigger videogames 2007 May 17, 5:52Notes on lolcats with some excellent links.
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