Category Archive 'Amusement'
22 Apr 2015

Festive Boa

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16 Apr 2015

From a London Tattoo Shop Bathroom

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StardustGhost

18 Feb 2015

Snowy in New England

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Snowiest

It’s bad enough here in the mountains of Central Pennsylvania, but all that Global Warming really buried New England in white stuff this year. Buzzfeed has a compilation of really impressive photos from Twitter.

AlpsofMIT
“The Alps of M.I.T.”

07 Feb 2015

If Programming Languages Were Countries…

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progLanguages

John Purcell (on Quora):

Java: USA — optimistic, powerful, likes to gloss over inconveniences.

C++: UK — strong and exacting, but not so good at actually finishing things and tends to get overtaken by Java.

Python: The Netherlands. “Hey no problem, let’sh do it guysh!”

Ruby: France. Powerful, stylish and convinced of its own correctness, but somewhat ignored by everyone else.

Assembly language: India. Massive, deep, vitally important but full of problems.

Cobol: Russia. Once very powerful and written with managers in mind; but has ended up losing out.

SQL and PL/SQL: Germany. A solid, reliable workhorse of a language.

Javascript: Italy. Massively influential and loved by everyone, but breaks down easily.

Scala: Hungary. Technically pure and correct, but suffers from an unworkable obsession with grammar that will limit its future success.

C: Norway. Tough and dynamic, but not very exciting.

PHP: Brazil. Full of beauty and flaunts itself a lot, but secretly very conservative.

LISP: Iceland. Incredibly clever and well-organised, but icy and remote.

Perl: China. Able to do apparently almost anything, but rather inscrutable.

Swift: Japan. One minute it’s nowhere, the next it’s everywhere and your mobile phone relies on it.

C#: Switzerland. Beautiful and well thought-out, but expect to pay a lot if you want to get seriously involved.

R: Liechtenstein. Probably really amazing, especially if you’re into big numbers, but no-one knows what it actually does.

Awk: North Korea. Stubbornly resists change, and its users appear to be unnaturally fond of it for reasons we can only speculate on.

05 Feb 2015

Good Prank

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03 Feb 2015

Not Easy Giving Their Shots to Pandas

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01 Feb 2015

Lots of Snow Around Here

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Pumas

29 Jan 2015

What Happened to the Unicorns?

One of a series of humorous videos by Canal+.

Hat tip to Karen L. Myers.

28 Jan 2015

Stuff Academics Say

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AcademicsSay

19 examples.

Hat tip to Irene Manta.

22 Jan 2015

We’ve All Had Mornings Like This

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seaotters

22 Jan 2015

Pronouncing British Placenames

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23 Dec 2014

A Cocker Christmas Carol

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JoeCocker
Joe Cocker, Rolling Stone 41, September 6, 1969

Sippi has updated the Dickens classis.

Cocker was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the barman, the A&R weasel, Google analytics, and the chief mourner. Rolling Stone signed it: and Rolling Stone’s name was as good as a contract with Alan B. Klein, for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Cocker was as dead as a door-nail.

Read the whole thing.

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Hat tip to Vanderleun.

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