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“We’ve been bit by a massive ZFS bug.” Yeah, ZFS isn’t as stable as it seems. Ouch. Good luck Joyent.
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The Vacant Circuit error tone. Add this to your answering machine and you will fool bots, at least for a little while (until they spend the extra two seconds to figure out you were just screwing with them).
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“Instead, three Japanese whalers attempted to throw Potts overboard while travelling at approximately 17 knots, then finally settled on tying him to the ship.” I’d do the same if someone boarded my ship. It’s called piracy, no matter who they are.
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“U.S. researchers said on Tuesday they have made the darkest material on Earth, a substance so black it absorbs more than 99.9 percent of light.” I want a theater painted in this stuff.
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As Gruber puts it over at Daring Fireball: “Best Unintended Irony in the History of Book Cover Design”
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Holy crap, this is cool. They’re all old photos, but I like that someone has posted them in a forum that is useful to others. Now if we could just get NASA to do this with some of theirs…
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Why did Martha Stewart end up in jail? Because she lied. Why is Greg Reyes going to jail? Same thing. Seems like the thing to do is come clean.
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“The passionate worker doesn’t show up because she’s afraid of getting in trouble, she shows up because it’s a hobby that pays.” Amen. Trick is finding that job, or that person.
