Lord British in Space

Not a bad way to spend $30 million, I suppose.

Richard Garriott is the first game designer in space. The creator of the Ultima series of video games was launched into orbit 17 hours ago with a crew aboard a Soyuz TMA spacecraft.

[From Game designer Richard Garriott blasts into space on a private rocket - Taiwan News Online]

McDonalds + Line Rider = Commercial

McDonalds used Line Rider for a commercial!

Story of a Peanut: The TiVo Remote’s Untold Past, Present and Future

 

Cool Story

Patton Oswalt kills a hobo

Not really (I think), but he says so in the commencement speech he gave at his high school this year.  Not a bad speech.  It had drugs, murder, and Minnie Pearl in it.

It’s always interesting to me to see what people say when they go home again.  Some people handle it well, others don’t.

Bob Hope once said, “When I was twenty, I worried what everything thought of me.    When I turned forty, I didn’t care what anyone thought of me.   And then I made it to sixty, and I realized no one was ever thinking of me.”    And then he pooed his pants, but that didn’t make what he said any less profound.

Patton Oswalt

Wikipedia:Lamest edit wars

Some of these are really funny.  The C# debate appeals to the geek in me.

C#

In the name of the programming language C#, is that # thing (octothorpe) after the C a number sign or the musical sharp symbol? What should the wrongname template say? Some argue that a Microsoft FAQ supports the sharp symbol, while others argue that the ECMA standard promotes the # symbol and that it has better browser support. Some propose using # as a superscript (C^#), which few editors like. Editors repeatedly reverted between each other, some refusing to discuss the issue on the talk page. The issue was resolved with an e-mail exchange with Microsoft stating that in their view it’s an octothorpe symbol representing the sharp symbol, similar to how “<=” represents the less than or equal symbol, and that thus Microsoft does not disagree with ECMA. Written “Netscape” but pronounced “Mozilla”, eh?

Wikipedia:Lamest edit wars – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Top Ten reasons to watch BSG

from before this season, on the Letterman show.  Number one is never the funniest on these things.

 

I guess you’ll do

Odd, depressing, yet strangely funny

 

Sarah Palin Baby Name Generator

I would have been Stockyard Mudslide Palin, for what it’s worth.

Intro to Computer Science free online from Stanford

I can remember when I took that class, albeit not at Stanford.  It was the fall of 1996 and I had never written a program in C before.  I did have some really bad habits from teaching myself BASIC and Pascal though. 

Now, you can get all of that knowledge for free on the Internet.  I can’t image how much farther along I would be if I had had the opportunities then that I have now.  The world is an amazing placew.

This course is the largest of the introductory programming courses and is one of the largest courses at Stanford. Topics focus on the introduction to the engineering of computer applications emphasizing modern software engineering principles: object-oriented design, decomposition, encapsulation, abstraction, and testing.

Stanford School of Engineering