Who said: ‘Some people, when confronted with a problem, think “I know, I’ll use regular expressions.” Now they have two problems.’
Click here to find out and read a whole bunch of other famous programming quotes.
While you’re geeking out, have a look at The Top 10 Ways to get screwed by the “C” programming language
… and finally, A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages
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A ten page section of the kid’s book “Evolution: How We and All Living Things Came to Be” is available for free download here, at the National Center for Science Education’s web site.
Continue reading Juvi Evo Book
Did you know that YouTube has a video editor? It’s new. Click here.
And finally, a solar airplane exists. I still want my jet pack.
Amazon now owns the patent on social networking. Here. When is this insanity going to stop?
Apple admits mistake over “Ulysses” app.
In a moment of astonishing stupidity, Italian prosecutors are taking up a case against geologists who failed to predict a somewhat severe earthquake.
The scientists had investigated a series of low magnitude quakes, and indicated that these quakes did not mean that a larger quake was coming. Then, a few weeks later, the 6.3 mag L’Aquilla quake occurred, killing 308 people.
See: Hazardous Living: Geologists to be charged for not predicting earthquake?
I dislike the term “god particle” but I could not resist the play on words … as researchers at Fermilab suggest that there may be five different versions of the Higgs boson, not just one. This would require, apparently, some rewriting of the Standard Model.
Continue reading It may turn out that Teh Physics is polytheistic