Earlier this week, I made

Earlier this week, I made a small joke about the French, which still elicited some comments. But for real French-bashing, I recommend this column by Jonah Goldberg (whom I normally find as loathsome as his mother), which relates some awfully funny insults about the French, AKA the "Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys."

A headline on Accuweather.com today

A headline on Accuweather.com today says, "Record Low Pressure Set In South Dakota." I'm imagining people and livestock suffering explosive decompression.

The always-insightful Steve Champeon writes

The always-insightful Steve Champeon writes on JavaScript: How Did We Get Here?

No good deed goes unpunished.

No good deed goes unpunished.

Remember a few days ago, when I was trying to give what I perceived to be good advice to a teenager who was deep into his own stereotypical teenage angst?

Well, I'm now an official nasty bitch, because what I wrote may have hurt poor Aaron's widdle biddy feewings. And Aaron wasn't asking for help, or for sympathy, he just wanted to whine, and how dare I offer him suggestions, just because they worked for me in the past. And on top of that, I wasn't properly respectful of his 14 year old dignity!

<sigh>

Oh, that's right, I'm not supposed to sigh, because it's "flame bait" and "can be personally offensive". So instead, I'll end by saying "Fuck."

According to Curl, every web

According to Curl, every web developer on earth is going to stop writing JavaScript, DHTML, CSS, Java, and Flash, and starting using their Surge Lab (Windows-only) product instead.

Oh, and every browser user will have to download their Surge plug-in (also available for Windows only), otherwise, they won't be able to see your content.

Commercial Web sites that use Curl content will have to pay (starting at $1000/month, minimum), and users visiting sites that use Curl will have to agree to allow Curl to know about all content executed by the plugin.

On eBay now: Kathy Smith's

On eBay now: Kathy Smith's What Burning Workout?

The date's wrong, but otherwise,

The date's wrong, but otherwise, this has got to be an April Fool's joke. New Scientist magazine has an article on Easy writer: software that turns everyday language into computer code could make us all programmers.

It's very common for programming

It's very common for programming language books to refer to other, more common, languages when trying to teach a new one. "Java for C Programmers" is an example. In that same spirit, there's now German for C++ programmers.

The always insightful Robert X.

The always insightful Robert X. Cringely
writes about Less Than Nothing: How Market Psychology Makes Companies Worth More -- and Less -- Than They Really Should Be.

Haven't you always wanted your

Haven't you always wanted your own Theremin? This dream is within reach!

Matt Haughey has a problem

Matt Haughey has a problem with toast. Jeffrey Zeldman has a problem with toast. And I suspect that neither one of them has seen this toaster yet.


Dori's homemaking tip of the day: the simplest way to get stuck food out of a toaster is to use a pair of chopsticks.

The French prime minister attacks

The French prime minister attacks the Bush administration's foreign policy. But on second thought, who cares what the French think? Never mind.

I'm trying to decide if

I'm trying to decide if I should buy a new digital camera before we go on our honeymoon, and I'm thinking about the Canon Digital ELPH's: either the S100 or the S300. What do you think? Any opinion?

Jean pointed me today towards

Jean pointed me today towards an excellent LA Times article on Asperger's syndrome. I'll have to print out copies of this and hand them out; it's an excellent intro to the subject for those who've never heard of it.

There's an interesting thread developing

There's an interesting thread developing over on Wes Felter's discussion board. Once again, I've posted the cynical wiseass opinions that y'all got a preview of in my Thoughts on Home Schooling last month.

Over at TidBITS, they're complaining

Over at TidBITS, they're complaining about a lack of bandwidth due to Geoff's loss of connectivity and Adam's 56K connection. Here's the solution. It'd probably work well for Jim Heid too.

Bruce Tognazzini is one of

Bruce Tognazzini is one of my personal heroes; he kept the flame of human interface design burning brightly at Apple when he was there, and he's written many things since that I respect and agree with. But this article he wrote about Replay TV is simply wrong; the feature he's complaining about (a still frame ad when playback is paused) was removed months ago. And in any case, he's wrong about functionality being removed by the now-removed feature; when you use the Pause button, you are by definition not watching the TV anyway. Besides, who's going to stare at a freeze frame for a half-hour or so? Just record the shows, and watch them later, skipping over the commercials.

Why don't we have a

Why don't we have a April Fool's page like last year?

Last Tuesday, we finished what Susan Kitchens refers to as TFB. This weekend, I celebrated by spending the weekend in a gorgeous place with a group of friends. All in all, I just ran out of time to do anything cool.

RFC's released today: Pi Digit

RFC's released today: Pi Digit Generation Protocol, Etymology of "Foo", and Firewall Enhancement Protocol (FEP).

"Cow." "Another cow." "Actually, I

"Cow."

"Another cow."

"Actually, I think that was the same one."