It's far easier and cheaper for cinemas when you book online, and yet they charge you for it. My economics knowledge tells me it's a matter of supply and demand; that is, we're too eager to let them take our money, but it still annoys the hell out of me.

So I read a news article on how Rubik's Cubes can be solved in 20 moves and I'm unimpressed ( Read more... )

I recently received a link to an urban legend about a mysterious Pokemon Black edition. Go on, click on it - it's not like Ring.

After Jigoku Shoujo I developed a new appreciation for urban legends - modern folktales of horror, morality, and the paranoia of an age ( Read more... )

Saw a girl of about 16 walking down the street with her mother, dressed up and wearing nekomimi in the middle of the day.

Microsoft have done something wacky and created a card game about security threat modelling with the catchy title of Elevation of PrivilegeIt's basically a trick-taking game where in order to play a card, you have to identify how the threat described on the card applies to your system. The cards come in suits that relate to classes of attacks ( ( Read more... )

I saw a little boy run onto the road when the red man was flashing; his dad ran after him, grabbed him, and dragged him back to the pavement. Funny the things you see.

I saw a woman knock a phone from a man's hand, pick it up off the ground, and then start complaining about the man into it.

There are all these posters around town promoting Nescafe coffee against Facebook etc.
"Some news is too big for an inbox"
"Profile pictures are funnier in person"
"Really lol"

I hate coffee and the social role it's come to occupy, but I thought the advertising was nice.

LtU links a collection of Microsoft blog posts on .NET's System.Interactive, a library for dealing with lists, enumerators and laziness (a pull framework, the dual to the System.Reactive, the reactive programming extensions - which are about event-based, push programming).

What amused me was the casual insertion of a description of monads, a ( Read more... )

It's looking like Kubo Tite is cornering himself into a premature and anticlimatic ending to his (unintentionally) hilarious series Bleach ( Read more... )

Looks like Orson Scott Card is into boardgames!