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Snippets » March 2007

• what type of nerd are you? → science/math nerd. unsurprisingly. turns out I don’t game enough to be a computer geek, I am off to hand in my geek card now. #
• conservative coding → put away the five dollar words when writing an install guide, put away the fancy stuff and write code for us mortals #
• more information than you ever needed to know about “purity testing” → no gerbils in the list. for shame. #
• a blogger code of conduct? → I gots ya code of conduct right here. Bite me #
• first ever human chimera? → even more interesting phenomenon linked in the article - the vanishing twin #
• how to beat google → including my personal favourite - small teams get more work done #
• pick up your nap sack → and stuff it full of micronaps #
• a namechange in the unexpected direction → why is it mandated that the wife adopts the husband’s surname? Why not … the other way around? #
• in ur internets wastn ur timez → mad props to Rustifer. This is genius. #
• oh that british accent → vocal chords made of tweed. I need to try that #
• swimsuits or sweaters? now we know → no. not swimsuits #
• Calculate your caffeine intake → Dr Peppers, Coke and other indulgences are now occasional instead of daily. I’ll live #
• innovation comes from PhDs, apparently → and that’s why America is apparently doomed. omgz the skies are falling #
• how to be a gentleman (apparently) → standing on entrance and exit? really? #
• lawyer makes a tit of herself in court → make that both tits #
• Hermione Granger gets first stalker → petrificus totalus ftw! #
• is that a baseball bat in your pocket or? → men apparently stare at each other’s crotches. intently. I don’t know where to begin commenting on this, honestly. #
• teenager tosses a promising career down the tubes to drink, dance and make merry → oh and he’s a 15 year old peruvian chess IM and his girlfriend is 14 years older than he is. Call this the Brazillian gambit #
• man who plays devil’s advocate is really an asshole → satire imitates real life #
• are big product launches necessary? → *sigh* this validates the sneaky viral marketing tactic. viva la astroturfing now, I suppose #
• ISPs sell clickstream data → see anonymous internet surfing. #
• surfing anonymously on the internet → reasonably balanced article about various services #
• the canon of computer games → played 8 of the 10. have obsessed over 5 in that canon at one point or the other. not bad. #
• Netcraft confirms: AMD is dying → I never jumped on the bandwagon myself, but AMD did keep Intel honest. Not anymore, apparently. #
• British and Irish share lots of common genetic material → still won’t make it a United Kingdom #
• sending out an SOS → messages in bottles are better recycled instead. Let’s all print out grouphug.us messages and use them for … #
• and it was how big? → there is a doctor who is an expert on masturbating elephants. who needs a cure for cancer when you can be an expert at jerking off pachyderms? #
• I will lead you to a land of milk and honey → but I’m a vegan! and forget about the loaves and fishes. Do you do soya? #
• no one saw it coming! it was like a rogue asteroid!! → or not. nappy wearing astronaut turned attempted kidnapper Lisa Nowak fired by NASA. and no, there were no rockets involved. #
• the story of mp3 → brandenburg and the fraunhofer institute #
• 50 most important people on the web → rob malda underrated, drew curtis underrated, blizzard overrated. No bias here, eh? #
• the curse of expansion → The best bits of a brand can sometimes be diluted or neutered by the requirement for breakneck expansion and scaling #
• 59 things that the Freedom of Information Act uncovered → most deal with cop and MP excesses so yawn. A few nuggets in there, though #
• manipulating Digg - for cash → you know something is wrong when people start doing this for real money #

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