xkcd - A Webcomic - Locke and Demosthenes
Incredible timing, a week ago this would not have made any sense to me! Ender’s Game is a good read.
Buy U a Drank - I Am T-Pain - Auto-Tune iPhone App (via NappyBoyOnline)
“the not-so-little things that mean even more, like the LLVM-powered static analyzer. The image below shows how the static analyzer displays its discovery of a possible bug.”
“Aside from the whimsy of the little arrows (which, admit it, are adorable), the actual bug it’s highlighting is something that every programmer can imagine creating (say, through some hasty editing). The static analyzer has determined that there’s at least one path through this set of nested conditionals that leaves the myName variable uninitialized, thus making the attempt to send the mutableCopy message in the final line potentially dangerous.”
Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard: the Ars Technica review - Ars Technica
Manhattan Solstice or Manhattanhenge is one of two days every year when the sun sets exactly in line with the crosstown streets of Manhattan.
Kseniya Simonova - Sand Animation (via iamlikeasea)
Here, she recounts Germany conquering Ukraine in the second world war.
A Dog Sits Waiting
A dog sits waiting
In the cold autumn sun
Too faithful to leave
Too frightened to run
He’s been here for days now
With nothing to do
But sit by the road,
Waiting for you.
He can’t understand why
You left him that day.
He thought you and he
Were stopping to play.
He’s sure you’ll come back,
And that’s why he stays.
How long will he suffer?
How many more days?
His legs have grown weak
His throat’s parched and dry
He’s sick now from hunger and falls, with a sigh.
He lays down his head and closes his eyes.
I wish you could see how
A waiting dog dies.
