HTTP hurts flickr, originally uploaded by merlinmann.

 

Missed connections: thank you mr record clerk

From Craigslist best-of:

Dear Hipster Record Store Clerk, 

Thank you for judging me on the CD I bought yesterday. Our passive-aggressive altercation made me realize how conformist I am for buying an old Rage Against The Machine album. Your condescension was just the intellectual wake-up call I needed. 

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Food Court Musical at Improv Everywhere

Great recent prank from Improv Everywhere -  Food Court Musical.  They’ve branched out from NYC, watch out!

Cost of living (adj) in Beer prices

See Steinn’s sliding scale for cost of living as calculated using local brews.

Real programmers use Emacs

 What no Eclipse jokes?

Woz commercial

Great link on TUAW showing Steve Wozniak who is selling his Nissan 350Z to raise money for IEEE lab at UC Berkeley.

Lost Kitty!, originally uploaded by jason.stajich.

Saw this sign posting in Berkeley for lost mountain lion….

Life imitating web

The guy who draws the XKCD cartoon moved and here is the whiteboard in his new appartment.

Perl Jungle Hunt

Sometimes life too easily imitates art – in that I feel like I’m on a rope swing hurtling towards the keyboard too much of the time…

Armchair physicist?

Bush Finds Error In Fermilab Calculations – from The Onion.