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xkcd is my new favorite web comic. Though Achewood is a close second. (If you don’t get the joke above, it’s because you’re not a computer nerd, which is nothing to be embarassed about.)

arXiv under load due to Perelman’s Fields Medal
Tuesday morning Grigory “Grisha” Perelman was awarded the Fields Medal for his work on (proof of) the Poincaré Conjecture, one of the million dollar Millenium Prize Problems. NY Times, CNN, the BBC and other web sites point out that he published his work solely on the Internet; but […]

Father: “Do you like your hot coco?”
Little kid: “Yeah.”
Father: “What does it taste like?”
Little kid: “Not like toothepaste.”

Tired: LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Perl)
Wired: ROFL (Ruby on Rails On FastCGI on Lighttpd); rhymes with whaffle. Now we need to invent more platforms for the “Roflcopter” stack.

Everyone loves YouTube, including me. But adding a video to my favorites is too hard. It takes three clicks! And two of those clicks are clicking ‘ok’. It’s not such an important operation that it requires double confirmation: it’s not the end of the world if I accidentally add a video to my favorites list.
Please, […]