• Building nuclear reactor at home – from scratch : Svarychevski Michail Aleksandrovich
  via the Code Project
  Tags: nuclear reactor homemade
• Phil Factor’s Phrenetic Phoughts : A brief nod at reality: Who was that masked man anyway?
  Why consultants shouldn't be heroes.
  Tags: philfactor consulting humor

• Phil Factor’s Phrenetic Phoughts : The Presentation Isn’t Over Until It’s Over
  Defying Murphy's Law
  Tags: philfactor murphyslaw presentation
• Assess whether you gave your client a reason or an excuse | TechRepublic
  Usually it's a poor excuse for a reason.
  Tags: techrepublic consulting
• Procrastination Flowcharts — The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century
  I'm surprised I finally got around to linking to this.
  Tags: procrastination humor flowchart

• Phil Factor’s Phrenetic Phoughts : The Seven Phases towards Craziness in IT Development Groups
  Too true to be comfortable, but hilarious.
  Tags: development productivity projectmgt philfactor
• Engineering a Sort Algorithm

  Tags: quicksort system:filetype:pdf system:media:document

• flor.nl – text-only – drug-dealers vs software developers
  Thanks, Stu
  Tags: humor programming drugs

• Seth’s Blog: How to protect your ideas in the digital age
  Precisely.
  Tags: copyright patents ip sethgodin trademark
• Phil Factor’s Phrenetic Phoughts : On Becoming Engrossed by the Technology
  A lesson that seemingly must be learned anew by each software generation.
  Tags: development design technology philfactor
• Should we be afraid of Google Public DNS? | IT Security | TechRepublic.com
  Who's afraid of the Big Bad GOOG?
  Tags: apotheon security techrepublic google dns

• Nine resolutions for a new year of consulting
  I probably don't want to know why I need more resolutions this year than last year..
  Tags: consulting techrepublic resolutions newyear
• Another One Bites the Dust and the Battle in My Head
  This one isn't funny — it's a brutally honest look at death by cancer, and life lived in its shadow.
  Tags: cancer teeni life death
• How to Insult People in Forums
  … tactfully
  Tags: insults forums philfactor
• snopes.com: The Front Fell Off
  The email in question was forwarded to me by a friend who is actually pretty smart (don't tell him I said so), but failed to check for a hoax. Nevertheless, the video is exceptionally funny.
  Tags: hoax snopes video humor oiltanker spill
• Waterfall model
  I prefer rapid iteration.
  Tags: humor waterfall

• First impressions: Lunascape5 Genesis Browser Alpha Release
  Trinitarianism comes to the web browser
  Tags: lunascape browser css javascript rendering technology performance gecko webkit trident IE firefox safari chrome
• The Devils Manual for IT Managers, Part 5: Looking Busy
  So true it almost isn't funny.
  Tags: philfactor management humor
• Should a writer put content behind the RSS wall?
  Make me take an extra step to read, I'm gone.
  Tags: markdykeman blogging rss walledgardens

• Putting Up with Shit
  Randy takes the power of hyper-connectedness to a whole new level
  Tags: communication connectedness honesty blogging randymorin
• Technology and Testosterone
  Too much testosterone can cause brain damage, after all.
  Tags: technology testosterone philfactor
• Wim van Eck’s legacy
  I just like how "Van Eck Phreaking" sounds.
  Tags: phreaking vaneck apotheon techrepublic security eavesdropping
• University researchers developing cancer-fighting beer
  … and on Saturday night they're hosting a dorm-wide prevention clinic.
  (via the Code Project)
  Tags: beer research cancer resveratrol

• Petzold: Mahler 8th Not Awesome?
  I love Mahler, but he's definitely not for everyone. In fact, it took me at least three hearings of each of his symphonies before I could really appreciate them. In each case, I then said to myself, "how could I not have heard THAT before?"
  Tags: mahler charlespetzold symphonies
• Your system design is so ugly…
  "they invented a new design pattern for it: Praying at the Porcelain Altar" (my submission). Hit refresh for more, or "submit" to add your own.
  Thanks, Assaf.
  Tags: design humor
• Inspired – Serious Scribbles and Silly Sayings
  Haizum finds human commonality in fear
  Tags: fear prayer poetry
• The DOS Batch File from Hell: a confession
  Phil's fight to win the Game of Silly Buggers.
  "In your working life, you will often be asked to do impossible things. This is normal, and reflects the fact that life itself is a juggling act that we all eventually fail at."
  Tags: philfactor dos batchfiles humor management rules
• Comment Central – Times Online – WBLG: Which word would you save?
  Why so abstergent?
  Thanks, John.
  Tags: dictionary words
• Talk Like A Pirate Day
  Har!
  Tags: economy pirate talklikeapirateday bailout
• Argument parser for command line switches with optional value arguments …
  Updated to include a collection of arguments that do not follow a switch.
  Tags: c# arguments parsing .net

From the simple, complexity:  the Rule 110 cellular automaton, although comprising a very simple set of rules, has been proven to be capable of universal computation.  Thanks to Stu for suggesting this topic.  Stu asked me to do a complete post on it, which it merits — but I’m not sure that I’m up to the task.  Maybe later.

Stu discusses the linguistic problems faced by time travellers.

What not to say to your wife if you have two penises.

How not to dress for an interview.

How not to make a language programmer-friendly.

How to improve network security by not slapping down IM.

Now I understand the distinction between marketing and PR.

A new chapter in the history of SCO:  number eleven, specifically.

Ya might be a Fundamentalist Christian if… (thanks, Greg)

Emily thinks that God can’t count.

How long can you tread water?

Blogging India is back in blogness!  Welcome back, Mohan.

I corrected my correction to Jerome’s Keywords.  Thanks for getting me to take another look at it, Brian!

A piece of foam that damaged the heat shield on the leading edge of the wing led to the re-entry destruction of the Space Shuttle Columbia, mission STS-107.  The recent Endeavour mission also experienced heat shield damage from foam-shedding, but thankfully STS-118 returned safely to Earth.

LOL.  Really.  Subscribed.

Phillip Su on mistakes even Microsofties make with Office products.  My favorite question that he gets from non-Microsofties:

“I don’t understand the thing in Excel where you [verb] the [noun] with your [relative/neighbor] using [ctrl/alt/shift][F7/Enter/NumLock]…” It’s a veritable MadLib of questions of the pattern, “In [Microsoft product of choice], how do I [some important thing that should be easy to do but isn't at all obvious]?”

I, too, thought she was taller.

A list of unusual deaths (via Mercola).

The diary of a Microsoft marketing man.

Stop Sitting on the Type Fence (via Reg).

The bearable lightness of not.

Putting the “I” into iPhone.

Sending your baby out into the big, bad world.