A mathematician attempts to determine whether girls are evil.
Via Ray Slakinski, author of Nucleus, a specialized tool for watching an RSS feed with links to .torrents and downloading files that match keywords. In other words, it lets you build a collection of TV show episodes with basically zero work.
Back when I moved from the custom Python CGI system for funny links to a Movable Type weblog, I listed three reasons for the change. The third reason was “my geeky need to fart around with needlessly complicated web stuff.”
In that spirit, I have switched to a new system, WordPress, which seems to be the in thing these days. So far I like it better – the editing interface seems better designed, and the Apache mod_rewrite rules that it provides gives me shorter URLs. See? Geeky. I even added 301 redirects to point the old URLs to the newer, shorter ones. If you find broken links, let me know and I’ll patch them up.
If you were wondering whether Armageddon was a good movie, or perhaps you were inclinded to see it but wanted to make sure it was scientifically accurate, you should check Intuitor Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics first. (Thanks, Dave)
Apparently at Microsoft, the meeting request notifications come pretty fast. Korby Parnell, a developer, just deletes most of them. But one escaped deletion through a special suffix added to the subject line.