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Any webcomic that has a joke about student information systems will always have a special place in my heart.

A site and product like this might upset the Zune owner I know.

This is pretty nifty: TouchGraph Google Browser. Just type in your search and click the “Graph it!” button.

Link via dda.

Via The Onion:

“At the current rate, we believe that at this time a sea change will occur in which people will look down at their glossy white or black devices and feel a sense of embarrassment and gullibility,” Goldman Sachs analyst Steven Shore said. “They will realize that, despite all the sleek design, they got caught up in a wave of hype that made them shell out additional hundreds of dollars for options and features they didn’t need. Until then, I would like to point out that my iPhone is awesome.”

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Via Worse Than Failure:

With all the “oh no, mind the world’s gonna end” date problems out there – Y2K, DST, The End of the Epoch, and Y2070 – it’s surprising that most haven’t heard of the day that the world actually ended. On that day – January 1st, 1984 – a single bug was responsible for shutting down – and keeping down – a whole lot of computer systems.
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Via Sam’s random musings:

Now That’s Recycling:

Seen in a parking lot in Warwick, Rhode Island.

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Via Coding Horror:

Software developers think their job is writing code. But it’s not.* Their job is to solve the customer’s problem. Sure, our preferred medium for solving problems is software, and that does involve writing code. But let’s keep this squarely in context: writing code is something you have to do to deliver a solution. It is not an end in and of itself.

Amen to that.

Google Launches ‘The Google’ For Older Adults:
“All you have to do to turn the website on is put the little blinking line thing in the cyberspace window at the top of the screen, type ‘thegoogle.com,’ and press ‘return’—although it will also recognize http.wwwthegoogle.com, google.aol, and ‘THEGOOGLE’ typed into a Word document.”

I love it.

Very positive article about REALbasic 2007 Release 4 (which I’m using and loving) from Redmond Developer:

The product interface is very clean in its appearance and function, compared with the more cluttered VB6 development environment that I had previously used. I especially liked how the most important buttons, “Run” and “Build” are very large, visible and easily accessible on the toolbar, unlike the MSVB6 equivalents that managed to hide in a series of drop-down menus and cluttered toolbars. Equally impressive was how the IDE categorized my test program into several tabs: Project, Window 1’s UI, and Window 1’s code. This helps to keep a project organized in a more logical way. I remember having to toggle between the code and UI of my projects in a drop-down menu in MSVB6, so this was a welcome change.

Nice. Will Kraft, the author of the article, even admits to being an Ubuntu user. I don’t normally follow Redmond Developer, so maybe my comment is out of context, but I found it very refreshing that they’re open to so much non-Microsoft technology.

From Ananova: A Bosnian couple are getting divorced after finding out they had been secretly chatting each other up online under fake names.

Beautiful.