Happy 1/11/11!

Posted at 11:11 a.m.

That is all.

Tom Smith, Superman Sex Life Boogie:
I've told her a thousand times, we can never risk normal sex.
If I lose control, we could get David Cronenberg to do the special effects,
I'm faster than a speeding bullet, I'm tougher than a moving train,
But why leap a tall building in a single bound,
When I'd rather jump Lois Lane.

Spin Doctors, Jimmy Olsen's ( Read more... )

 
Cruising through my mailbox just now, I happened to glance at a piece of spam before deleting it, and did a double-take:


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People living in The Tomorrowlands Universe have DWIM magitechnology to do the heavy lifting when they hear a catchy song on the radio and want to find it again later. The rest of us aren't so lucky, and must get clever with mundane tools ( Read more... )

THE HAVING OF GUNS ( Read more... )

I've seen the statistic cited a few times today that 21 percent of (American) atheists believe in a higher power, which is roughly as absurd as saying that 21 percent of vegetarians eat meat.

It's pretty easy to make more out of a statement like that than the data really implies, and people have been rightly skeptical. But in chipuni's discussion ( Read more... )

So we were writing some shell scripts here at work today, and while debugging a delete command that wasn't working as expected, the following sentence in the man page for rm caught my eye:

The interactive mode used to be a dsw command, a carryover from the ancient past with an amusing etymology.

Which led me to Google, and thus to a bit of history ( Read more... )

... and installed AWStats on Tomorrowlands today. I try not to care about page statistics, but it is nice seeing who's visiting you and why.

In honor of the occasion (I literally haven't looked at webstats for years now), I'll swipe an idea from lupabitch and share with you some of the weirdest web searches that brought strangers to my site last month*:

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(Reposting this from a friend's journal, where a pet peeve was brought up -- use of the term "old-school" to refer to things within our lifetimes.)

I respectfully disagree that "old school" is being inappropriately used -- at least in proper context.

2007:

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After work tonight, I came home with an organic zucchini to feed Boing for the next three days. It cost me $1.45, which emptied my wallet* and got me to thinking.


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