Lolcat an sich! (2007/05/31)
Okay, so, lolcode is an attempt to build a programming language from lolcat captions. (One can only assume that this suggests a return to the older term for them: “cat macros”.)
[read more...]It's funny, but is it a cat macro? (2007/05/27)
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What I wish Weiss Kreuz had been (2007/05/19)
So, I was watching an anime called Weiss Kreuz, aka Knight Hunters. (Yes, I know that Weiss Kreuz is bad German for something that is not “knight hunters”. They have a hospital named “Magic Bus”, I don’t think there’s any kind of intent of coherence in the use of non-Japanese languages.)
[read more...]Bye-bye, Mr. Falwell (2007/05/15)
You know, I don’t think anyone would call me a fan of the late Jerry Falwell. Whether it was blaming gays and abortionists for 9/11, or suggesting that we should “blow them away in the name of the Lord”, Falwell had an astounding talent for offending people, and in many cases, their offense was justified.
[read more...]Amüsing ways to poke fun. (2007/04/30)
The folks at ChristianForums have now enacted a de facto policy that any reference to uberchristians (note: no umlaut) is obviously somehow “spam”. Whether or not there’s a link, whatever; it’s always spam.
[read more...]ChristianForums: Hey, edit this. (2007/04/29)
So, in response to the new policy allowing only clinic-bombers to have ribbons, a few things happened. (Note: I have used slight hyperbole. In fact, everyone who identifies as “pro-life” can have ribbons. No one else can.)
[read more...]Those annoying car stickers (2007/04/28)
So, every so often, someone plasters my car with little stickers advertising some kind of “earn $$$” thing. “If you have an extra 8-12 hours per week and desire to earn an extra $8000-1,000 a month”.
[read more...]Why didn't they make us sing this in school? (2007/04/27)
The Fúfumal is an epic tale of magic and heroes.
[read more...]Instant review: Ruby (2007/04/27)
I like to learn new programming languages from time to time. Some, I like better than others; I put in a few years on the ISO C committee (and I’d still be there if I had funding). Others, I don’t like so much; my first gut response to PHP was “I think this language may be uglier than perl”, and the impression has stuck with me.
[read more...]ChristianForums: AM I NOT MERCIFUL? (2007/04/25)
There’s been some discussion at CF. Any time someone’s signature or avatar or other “bling” mentioned pro-choice positions, drama ensued, so a policy was reached where only pro-life things could be said, but drama ensued, so the policy was that no one could put comments like this in signatures or avatars; you can talk about these things in posts in certain forums, but not in others, and the ruling was that putting such things in signatures was “discussing” them in other forums. This has been changed! Read on.
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