Another selection of stuff to baffle, bemuse, and possibly enlighten:
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- 3D Painted Rooms - some very nice effects that only appear if one stands in just the right place.
- Why the ignorant are blissful: Inept individuals ooze confidence - "People who do things badly, Dunning has found... are usually supremely confident of their abilities -- more confident, in fact, than people who do things well."
- 10 Bad Project Warning Signs - handy list of things that should trigger alarm bells, from Andy Budd.
- A History of the Sentence "Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo." - buffalo |ˈbəfəˌlō| n. a heavily built wild ox with backswept horns; vt. overawe or intimidate (someone).
- Excel as a database - "As a developer, you've probably, at some unfortunate point in your life (possibly several points, actually), been handed an Excel file that has been crammed full of 'data' by someone in marketing and told to 'do something with it.'" Rory presents a comic strip that seeks to explain how these things come to be inflicted on the hapless developer.
- Hacking IKEA - video (MP4) showing how to make fire using only IKEA products.
- 2010 CWE/SANS Top 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors - "The Top 25 list is a tool for education and awareness to help programmers to prevent the kinds of vulnerabilities that plague the software industry, by identifying and avoiding all-too-common mistakes that occur before software is even shipped. Software customers can use the same list to help them to ask for more secure software. Researchers in software security can use the Top 25 to focus on a narrow but important subset of all known security weaknesses. Finally, software managers and CIOs can use the Top 25 list as a measuring stick of progress in their efforts to secure their software."
- A Nation of Racist Dwarfs - I get the impression Christopher Hitchens doesn't think too highly of North Korea.
- Carnivorous Plants - fascinating article, excellent photo gallery. "By comparing the DNA of carnivorous plants with other species, scientists have found that they evolved independently on at least six separate occasions. " (Five pages.)
- Bob's page of mildly useful but still pretty neat code snippets - obligatory nerd stuff, mainly in C although some 80x86 assembler is also shown
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