Off in a flash: Bilbo Baggins was 111 (eleventy-one) years old when he left the Shire in a Gandalf-enabled flash.

If God had wanted us to have sealed classes, he would have given us C# – instead of Ruby.

Ruby usually makes it easier to create more legible code, not the opposite.

When What You See Is What You Don’t Get to Keep.  As ccreitz said:

I want a mode in the editor where it just smilingly takes the HTML I feed it, pushes it into the DB, and lets me shoot myself in the foot if what I need is a hole in my shoe.

Paul Graham takes on Aristotle, and proposes a new philosophy of philosophy.

Not exactly what she was hoping for…

Ten responses for blogsweluv.

LOLTHULU (thanks, Rebecca).

IM IN UR GRAMMER EATIN UR SIGILS.  chromatic disagrees with my distaste for “$”.

Thanks for the link-love, Randy and Brian!

Widget watch: Fyrd the 8th uses my tag cloud widget for WordPress.

Duration of double 5′s: the U.S. national 55 mph speed limit was imposed in 1974 and repealed 21 years later in 1995.

Put this one on my reading list: Algorithms, written by three professors at UC’s Berkeley and San Diego. Covers everything from simple factoring up to quantum computing (thanks, Doug).

Gender differences in grammar caused by estrogen to the brain (thanks, Armchair Anarchist). The way I read this article, the researchers got the opposite result of what they were expecting, then devised an interpretation of those results in terms of their theory.

Also from AA: 20 Lines That Could Have Dramatically Changed The Lord of the Rings.

Technorati search is confusing me:

“No posts link to that URL yet”, so apparently the 264 links from 31 blogs are all in the future.

UPDATE: as I expected, it was a temporary glitch.