Duct Tape Considered Harmful (Hacker News)

Signs of a Programmer Created UI (Hacker News)

09/21/09 PHD comic: 'Annual Grad/Faculty Softball Game, pt. 4' (PHD Comics)

I hope my mom doesn’t want my tuition back.

TEDTalks : Rebecca Saxe: How we read each other's minds – Rebecca Saxe (2009) (TEDTalks (hd))

Wow…!

WordPress Just Made Millions of Blogs Real-Time With RSSCloud (Hacker News)

This is awesome. This is a problem I encounter all the time with Simplaris Blogcast. I have a timed process which checks blogs every day for updates. This means that it could take a day for Simplaris Blogcast to update a user’s profile. This is very much less than ideal. Simplaris Blogcast offers a ping service which speeds up the process to real-time. However, this is usually beyond the technical ability of most users.