t e a m . m i d n i g h t has info on drunken midnight rides through scenic Portland.
del.icio.us has provided some information about an important update to Internet Explorer. Go here to learn more.
I learned about Pericoronitis firsthand over the last 10 days or so by acquiring the condition and dealing with the consequences of it. My lesson began with occasional soreness and from there became a throbbing pain in my jaw and lymph nodes. I tried to ward it off with ibuprofen; initially I was successful but after several days this strategy failed. I found myself in the dentist's chair yesterday getting x-rayed and was informed I was afflicted with Pericoronitis. This condition which is caused when a partially erupted tooth gets food trapped around it, breeding anaeorbic bacteria and causing pain and suffering.
Fortunately, I was given a prescription for penicillin and vocodin, and it's been smooth sailing since then. The sleepless nights of headaches and throbbing pain are a distant, two-day-old memory. I'm getting my wisdom teeth extracted on Monday.
Programmers, be sure to read Klingon rules for systems development (Anders Jacobsen's blog).
My personal favorite:
7. What is this talk of 'release'? Klingons do not make software 'releases' Our software 'escapes' leaving a bloody trail of designers and quality assurance people in its wake.
Spurred by Johnny Depp's film, there has been an increase in maritime piracy.
Arr.
I found The Jakarta Project while reading about Struts. I'll plunder this treasure trove while coding my hive-mind style superalgorithm to enslave mankind (using the MVC design pattern, of course).
So You Want To learn Japanese...
Don't do it. It's too hard.
Apparently the pope has given his blessing to some polish B-Boys.
"For this creative hard work I bless you from my heart," he said.
The article is here, see for yourself. After the news crew left he got up and did the worm.
Head over to Mars Exploration Rover Mission: Multimedia when you want to see the original Mars lander photos.
There are probably a few things more ironic than seeing employees of a certain health maintenance organization outside smoking on their lunch break, but not many.
The Office of the Clark County Coroner has publicly viewable photos of unidentified remains!
The AFA has cancelled plans to submit their gay marriage poll to congress after it didn't turn out the way they wanted it to.
I didn't know waffling was a family value.
Furl is another user-generated repository of interesting links strinving for the treasured spot on my linkbar.
All I'm sayin' is...two headed baby!
Check out the sickness that is Textension.
Get Your Teeth Fixed in Mexico is about a Kuro5hin poster's experience of getting all of his teeth capped in Mexico. Sweet. I want to do this, like Matt Dillon in Something About Mary.
The Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures will satisfy your inborn lust for knowledge about quicksort, red-black trees, Dijkstra's Algorithm, and more...so many more. My favorite Computer Scientist, Andrzej Proskurowski, would read this site...if he didn't already know everything in it. My second favorite computer scientist, Eugene Luks, has probably contributed to it.
Peer around in the guts of nomorepasting! *.NET, ASP, Assembler, C/C++, Coldfusion, Delphi, Java, Javascript, mIRC Script, Perl, PHP, Python, SQL, VisualBasic, and 'other'.
The Russian army has resuced the sunken beer. We can all rest easy.
The hopes and prayers of many thirsty Russians are with their army as they struggle to save 10 tons of beer trapped under Siberian ice.
One step closer to the elusive monkey butler. If we can just teach them to cook and make a decent martini, we can truly call it progress.
Finally, a robot friend has been created for My Robot Friend!
Platform independent photo album software brought to you by the SUV of programming languages, Java.
This is just too cool: Escher's artwork meets modern graphics technology.
Read poignant and compelling essays about El Nino and lightning.
In 1967 Israel attacked the USS Liberty and killed 34 Americans. The US Government covered up the incident and no congressional hearings ever took place.
Jesus is everywhere would be a great way to drive up traffic at my site. I could have them create a 'miraculous' image of Christ on my site.
The only problem is their $5000 fee...
Print up the Logarithmic Maps of the Universe and have cool new posters for your wall while you drink jolt and code in LISP!
I found Gnod. It's neat.
...or, should I say, gneat.
Finally, I can have TB and it's not a bad thing.
I recklessly opted to attend work yesterday. I made my way downtown to Pioneer Square where I was supposed to find a shuttle bus which would pick me up at the MAX line to take me to Beaverton and work. I got downtown and peered around in the dark looking for the alleged shuttle bus, and entertained myself by watching people attempt to dig the Lewis and Clark shuttle bus out of the snow. There was a camera crew from News Channel 8 filming the spectacle. After they got done shooting their footage of the bus they walked up to me, pointed the camera in my face, and started asking me questions.
"What is your name?"
"Where are you going?"
"To work.", I replied.
"Where do you work?"
"In Beaverton, at Stream."
They asked me a few more questions, and I quickly forgot what they were as I made my way to work. I forgot about the entire incident by the time I arrived at work, until one of the team supervisors informed me that he had seen me on the news that morning. Since then my life has been radically different. I went out last night and everyone competed to buy me drinks. Beautiful women threw themselves at me. I was offered cushy jobs with extravagent salaries.
It didn't top Tuesday, when I was unable to attend work at all. I was terribly depressed I couldn't bring myself to leave the house. However, I left the house and went shopping, played in the snow, and came home to play board games. I helped to defeat the girls team at the game of Taboo, and then I defeated three baccalaureates of the liberal arts and one one almost-holder of an English degree at the game of Balderdash. A good time was had by all.
Veal producers would like to remind you that you don't have to fear mad cow disease when you eat their product: it's made from calves who only drink milk, not from cattle who eat cattle.
Michael Crichton's website has a transcript of a speech he gave, where he speculates about speculation in the media.
This kid is very smart. I stumbled onto his site through his zipcode app and have been surfing it for the last hour. Good stuff.