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I can has laptops?

(not our dog - found by my wife while randomly surfing flickr)

Dear Gap.com: Watch those divide by zero errors

Seen a couple days ago while shopping online buy a coat for my wife:

Is saving “up to not a number” a good thing?

Console Madness

Every time one of the new consoles come out, we get sad stories like these. On top of the obvious insanity in camping for days to buy a buggy $600 system, we have people getting hurt and robbed for their systems. Is this really a difficult problem to solve?
How about this: two weeks […]

Step 1) Create Something Awesome 2) Profit - or Ze makes $2k in One Day

Yesterday, ze frank of video blog the show asked his fans to “gimme some candy” and donate. Donaters got a message that would be displayed on the show’s page with a logo - fifty bucks getting a big duckie, ten a small one, and five a jewel.
Looking at the duckies today, ze made over […]

GoF Patterns: Helping Losers Lose Less

…don’t dismiss patterns because of the GoF - much of the patterns community derides that work as well. Think of the GoF as helping losers lose less.
- Richard Gabriel, comp.lang.lisp, 2001
via Reddit

An Open (Love) Letter to Taco Bell’s Crunch Wrap Supreme

McSweeney’s is pretty much the perfect site for fridays.
The second your tortilla met my lips, I knew there was no turning back. You had it all! In one compact package, no less. You had the flexibility of a flour tortilla, the firm crunch of a corn tortilla, the freshness of lettuce and tomatoes. Your patches […]

Why not to use Ant

Via Projectionist:
Michael K. - I just asked a former co worker why he hasn’t written an ant task to deploy their app
Michael K. - “dude - they pay me by the hour”
Michael K. - enterprise right there

Looks like Google should’ve used BigDecimal!

But Yahoo search has it right…

100 cups of coffee in 48 hours

Two programmers are trying to trying to drink 100 cups of coffee in 48 hours. I’m a pretty big caffeine nut, but I don’t think even I would attempt this.
The health matters, among other things, was discussed at Russel’s blog. The typical healthy human would have no problem processing that amount […]

THIS IS NO GAME

This isn’t something where you sink a birdie or hit a badminton birdie or do anything at all with birdies.