“This is a video podcast that features very short episodes from the life of Phone Guy. You know Phone Guy. Phone Guy is that guy who’s always on the phone. Except the phone, in the case of Phone Guy, is actually his wallet.”

“It’s always been a pleasure making records with Edith, and her demos have been a big part of the pleasure. The process of imagining finished productions begins with playing Edith’s original versions over and over again.”

“The holiday cheer soured this week when a reader of a United Kingdom-based technology news site, The Register, reported that a chat between Santa and his underage nieces about eating pizza prompted Santa to bring up oral sex.”

“What is going to be most powerful to solve these problems, a simple XML grammar or a full and powerful scripting language (not to mention Turing complete)? Would you rather write copy source, target or 3 lines of XML?”

“This vast, vibrant centre of trade and commerce was officially opened on 20 March, 1878 and has served consumers’ needs for more than 125 years. Spread over 7 hectares, it’s the largest open air market in the southern hemisphere.”

“Who thought sixty pages of stylish-yet-practical clothing would employ models who are disturbing approximations of the lovely thirty-something woman who doesn’t want to put up with your shit anymore?”

“It turns out that all you need to do is place them into a square box when they are growing and the watermelon will take on the shape of the box.”

“There, a ham maker can be accorded the respect due a head of state; the parsing of barbecue’s savage and cannibalistic undertones is an intriguing line of conversation; “frying chicken” can be presented as a slang term for sex…and it somehow makes sense.”

“The Google Chart API returns a PNG-format image in response to a URL. Several types of image can be generated: line, bar, and pie charts for example. For each image type you can specify attributes such as size, colors, and labels.”

“Genus 1 … so there’s exactly one topological hole. You can secure this hat with a Kryptonite Lock. Other hats, being genus zero, can’t be locked.”

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