Spring has rolled around again, and with it the sight of happy couples poking their heads out of their burrows, not being scared off by their shadows, and coming out to enjoy the fresh air and sunshine. Forget Valentine's Day - Spring is the lord of love, and now that the depredations of March have fallen by the wayside, you can see affection ( Read more... )

I encourage you all to read today's Irregular Webcomic!, if you haven't already.

Not only is the ur-lightbulb joke probably the funniest thing I've seen all week (YES I AM A GEEK WHY DO YOU ASK), but David Morgan-Mar is, I think, the undisputed grand-master of the beat panel, and this is an excellent example of his supremacy.

It's really weird to have a breakthrough in a dream. Not just "I let my mind mull it over, and knew the answer when I woke up"; I specifically remember the part of the dream during which I had the breakthrough, and why I had the breakthrough, and - most importantly - what the breakthrough wasSee, I've had a project in my head since Christmas. ( Read more... )

In the dark future of Hollywood parodies, there is only Shatner.

Warning: video file.

From World of Warcraft:


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When I was working for Prometric (Thomson Learning) in 2000, designing their intranet, for whatever reason, we were told that we had to standardize on Web Development Software. I don't mean what language we 1 would be programming in; we'd already had the fight over ASP vs. PHP vs. ColdFusion 2. Rather, this was the program in which we would be ( Read more... )

Any essay in which I get to reference Greek myth, Star Wars, and Dracula in the course of discussing free-verse poetry is a good essay.

The sheer volume of search engines hits on combinations of gabe/piro/tycho/largo and various hentai acts of man on man sex have lead me to the inescapable conclusion that no power in the 'verse can stop a teenage girl once she's got her mind set on the task of masturbating.

-- Ghastly, in a Websnark discussion

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I am informed via the forums that the latest release of Safari (2.0.2, included with the OS X 10.4.3 update) is now compatible with Writely.

Writely uses browser detection to block off the browsers they know to not work, which still includes older versions of Safari; if you want to use Safari 2.0.2 to check out Writely, you can use this link to ( Read more... )