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The longest word that can’t be expressed as a URL hack
Colin and I were playing Domainr, which is a pretty fun and fantastic site for generating domain hacks. Of course, I already own the best one (wait what), but there’s still a ton of joy in finding out, among other things, that quiteajo.lt is available! (although I’m sure it won’t be five seconds after I [...]
What the hell, Slashdot
Slashdot, you’ve heard of Slashdot, right? You’re on the internet, of course you have. News site covering the latest developments in hardware, software, programming, video games, copyright laws, and so on. The first clause of the tagline summarizes it well: “news for nerds.”
I was cleaning out my inbox today, when I found a year old [...]
This “Cuil” thing
This isn’t going to be about how Cuil is fantastic or terrible or anything.
At least directly.
Actually it’s about their most fantastic feature, the image association with search results. From the FAQ:
We know from our research that people can make better and quicker decisions about relevance and quality when they can see an image from the [...]
The greatest reason to do anything, ever
I was reading this fantastic e-mail dialog between biologist Richard Lenski and Wikipedia-killer Andy Schlafly, when I decided to poke around the intertubes for stuff about Conservapedia. I eventually landed on this article, originally published in the Los Angeles Times a year ago:
Andy Schlafly was appalled. He was teaching a history class to home-schooled teens [...]
nostrangerstolove.java
Submission to the practice problem of the 17th Annual University of Evansville High School Programming Contest:
Atom feed for Folklore.org’s Newton stories
I mentioned last post that ten stories were added to Folklore.org’s hidden Newton section. Well, since then, another one has been added. I’m kind of annoyed by the fact that the feed for that section still doesn’t work, so I need to remember to go the index myself to check for new stories.
So, I made [...]
Borogoves
Went through the old posts and spruced everything up so that they at least look no worse than they did in the old theme, I think. Had an oddity with my image styling with Safari 3 and rows of thumbnails, like in this post, where the images load fine the first time, but after the [...]
Folklore.org shows signs of life
Posting about this will have limited effectiveness, seeing as I’d put an upper limit of two on my readership total, but by that reasoning I’d never post anything. And I really need to get around to writing regularly.
I love Folklore.org.
Folklore.org is a web site devoted to collective historical storytelling. It captures and presents sets of [...]
Initializing a struct with a string array member in C
Last week, I was writing some C code which used a struct that contained, among other members, an array of strings, and I wanted to initialize an array of these structs for use elsewhere in the code. My initial attempts failed with compiler messages that I’d never seen before, so instead of taking the easy [...]