I have to admit, this headline made me chuckle:

Intel Faces Atom Shortage

Thank goodness there are still plenty of Quarks :)

This post nearly had me going - InfoWorld put up an "MS and Yahoo agree to terms" post, and the first half of the first page was believable - it wasn't until I got to the XBox and Zune give-away line, followed by "Google buys Facebook" thing, that it was clear that it was a prank post. Of course, it should have been clear from the get go - I mean, just look at the InfoWorld url :)

The basic premise - such a deal being consummated - is entirely believable. Here's what I wonder: how many people who barely read past the Techmeme headline will get taken in by this?

Ok, this is mildly amusing:

We are thrilled to announce Seaside for Java. After the successful J2EE context refactoring, we proceeded with the next logical step and moved the whole code-base to Java.

Best of it, migration to Java is even easier than moving between two Smalltalk dialects: With the agreement of all major Smalltalk vendors, we introduced a new platform independent primitive that is an equivalent but very efficient implementation of Smalltalk become: Java. You might find it useful to convert your existing code and business objects to Java.

I do like the logo :)

Now this is funny stuff :)

I've seen a lot of bad ideas, but this is way up there on the ick-o-meter:

Now, is this great PR for Apple, or what?

Viewers of the Charlie Rose show tonight were stunned to see the normally composed Rose looking like he’d just been in a bar fight. He has a very bad black eye and a bandage over part of his forehead. I contacted the show’s producers to hear what happened. Earlier today, they said, Rose tripped in a pothole while walking on 59th Street in Manhattan. He was carrying a newly purchased MacBook Air and made a quick (but ultimately flawed) decision while falling: sacrifice the face, protect the computer. “In doing so, he pretty much hit the pavement face first, unfortunately,” they said.

Tha sad part is, I understand :)

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Travis has posted an implementation of some of the nonsense we talked about last weekend. Fun Stuff!

Anyway, in flippancy, I suggested that one way of encoding a large range of at: someIndex methods tersely was to simply use roman numeral selectors. The nice thing about roman numerals is that they start at one, so they match Smalltalk code well. I was then challenged to make it do tail based access as well. I had said I would use case for this distinction, but in the end decided to use a trailing underscore to indicate that the selector should go from the back of the collection, rather than the front. Mixed case is supported.

What a pile of manure, huh? But such is the normal kind of fun hack for me. And it turns out that NormalManure is a nice anagram for "Roman Numeral", so I published it in the Open Repository under the name of NormalManure. The other part of the blog title composed of roman numeral characters (my second candidate for a goofy package name).

This graphic comes from a NY Times obituary piece (op/ed section) for Gary Gygax - it earned a chuckle from me: