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Snippets » May 2006

• Tits McPhee’s AI dreams suffer a Hickup → hate the game, sage; not the playa *grin* #
• stock photography cliches → have they tried despair.com yet? no? #
• more ammo for the gun control crazies → no guesses where I stand on the issue then, hey? #
• 10 mistakes developers make with databases → interesting insights in there, some controversial stuff too #
• cynical or true? → why does this stuff appear on Craiglist anyway? #
• 1 in 10 Mexicans now live in the US → interesting comparisons between the EU and the NAFTA #
• it’s not the features, stupid → it’s the hype #
• PHP in contrast to Perl → technologically better != wide adoption #
• signs you are a crappy programmer → insult the one true Java? NooooOoooOoooo #
• Be religious, have lower blood pressure → unless you’re one of those fire and brimstone preachermen #
• first sex theme park is set to open … in London → you must be _this_ tall to take this ride #
• stars are mostly made - but it helps if you were born in the right month → January, February and March are good months for soccer babies #
• Top 10 SciFi movies (repost? maybe) → haven’t seen three of those. Solaris and the day the earth stood still are on my list. #
• Jeffery Friedl (yes, Mr. Regex) does garlic → badly. s/garlic//g in the future #
• is this your first time? → er. anything for a niche market, eh? #
• WYSIWYG cannot fix what you never had in the first place → making it easier to format doesn’t #
• Sesame Street videos! → Cookie Monstah!! Kermie!!! Grover!!!!! More exclamation marks!!!!!! #
• the Golden Gate Bridge: mapped by suicides → into the cold cold waters below. ugh #
• howto delete code → don’t use comments, just blow it away. #
• bad hair days → hair today, gone tomorrow - is actually a suppression of human instinct. #
• Newsflash: despite stricter immigration laws, birds fly to New Jersey too → and some of those birds aren’t healthy. Yoicks! #
• DrunkNewsBlog → The home of beer cocktails and how the Brits can’t handle alcohol. Tosser. #
• small is better → and big companies are monoliths. And generalizations are dangerous. #

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