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Profiles Geek And Poke: Profiles

From the Spit My Milk Out Department (better known as the DailyWTF): “This is from a Kroger in Troy, MI,” wrote Mike. “Perhaps it’s proof that Kroger is not lying when they say they are an equal opportunity employer?” Sponsor Appreciation, Cabling Confusion, Dividend Bling, & More – The Daily WTF I love homo humor. [...]

Whatever. Earlier this year the Linux Foundation launched a competition for budding writers, film makers and just general Linux enthusiasts to make their own grassroots advertisement to compete with Apple’s highly-successful “I’m a Mac” series of adverts. The winner has now been announced. iTWire — He’s a Mac, he’s a PC, but we’re Linux This [...]

Stress TestGeek And Poke: Stress Test

For some contest that I’m too lazy to lookup. Just watch the video, it’s funny. “Macs are hipsters. PC’s are dorks. I’m a Linux. All I care about is rocking. Hard.” (For the “I’m a Linux” video contest. The Linux mascot is “Tux the Penguin,” so this time the penguin costume is actually appropriate.) YouTube [...]

18 Months AgoGeek And Poke: 18 Months Ago

Is The DailyWTF one of the best blogs on the Internet today? I dare say that as a finalist for the 2009 Bloggies for Best Computer or Technology Weblog that they are. Personally, I think they were robbed. Lifehacker is good but I like the DailyWTF better. I’m sure you’ll agree and if you do, [...]

Old but funny! …and true. > > There is an entire development methodology (whose name escapes me at the > moment) that makes use of that very phenomenon. We called it the Rubber Duck method of debugging. It goes like this: 1) Beg, borrow, steal, buy, fabricate or otherwise obtain a rubber duck (bathtub variety) [...]

I just about spit my milk out this morning when I saw this one from the DailyWTF. It’s funny because it’s almost true… :( “I understand some banks are short of cash these days,” writes Greg, “I guess this is one way of breaking the news.”Broke Bank – The Daily WTF

Ah…nerd humor. How programming languages would be if they were cars. [jack black]HILARIOUS[/jack black]. I didn’t, as usual, clip them all just my languages. Read the rest of the guffaws on programming humor. Assembler – A formula I race car. Very fast but difficult to drive and maintain. … COBOL – A delivery van. It’s [...]

Normally I don’t clip Slashdot directly, but the one line that Samzenpus wrote today was worth the clip. Setup: Florida, faced with a problem of crocodiles returning to residential neighborhoods after being relocated elsewhere, is trying to solve it by affixing magnets to the crocs’ heads. The theory is the crocodiles use the Earth’s magnetic [...]

As I dive more and more down the Blackhat rabbit hole, I find stuff like this hysterical. I’m not ready to give up the sites that I use to learn techniques and information but the more I learn the more I find that the Whitehat SEO poster is very, very true. Of course just as [...]