Seen in a comments thread about paper deadline extensions:

"If people don't like randomly distributed unequal treatment, then why do they keep submitting papers to security research conferences?"

... Built by a MechE Ph.D. with (I presume) too much time and money on his hands:

http://ronpatrickstuff.com/

"No skis take rocks like rental skis!"

Somebody over at Veracode has found the only valid measurement of code quality.

h/t Emergent Chaos

IF YOUR WORK IS NOT FINISHED,
BLAME IT ON THE COMPUTER

Along the lines of The 213 Things Skippy is No Longer Allowed to Do in the U.S. Army, I give you 1025 Things Mr Welch Can No Longer Do in an RPG, e.g. "92. The name of the weapon shop is not 'Bloodbath and Beyond'." Also, bonus points for repeated The Last Starfighter references.

I wanted to chase some references from "My Botnet is Bigger than Yours," so I started typing the title into the search bar. After getting through "my botnet", Google helpfully suggested "my botnet brings all the feds to my yard". I can't even begin to imagine how that phrase got sufficiently popular to be returned by the suggestion engine...

% cd ~/Downloads/linux-2.6.22 ( Read more... )

"Spotlight in Leopard is designed to offer advanced search functionality by allowing you to select a variety of boolean operatives. (Apple has said so far that AND, OR and NOT will be supported.)" (source)

And here I was hoping they'd just give us NAND. (Also, there's got to be a good joke somewhere in "boolean operatives.")

OK, maybe I've been awake too long, but I found this hilarious:

// feed all the integers through
for (i = 2; ; i++)
ipc_send(id, i, 0, 0);
The context is a fork bomb that happens to be a concurrent Sieve of Eratosthenes. Have I mentioned recently that I love my Operating Systems class?