Links posted on July 26, 2005
Makes me think the space shuttle is just a flying scrap heap. includes this cute little quote:
"Video also showed the fuel tank's nose cone hitting a bird about 2.5 seconds after liftoff, apparently without damage, he said."
Tell that to the bird. They really have a lot of cameras on that thing now.
If World War II Was an RTS - If World War Two had been an online Real Ttime Strategy game, the chat room traffic would have gone something like this.
The Underhanded C Contest - you've heard, of course, of the Obfuscated C and Obfuscated Perl contests. The Underhanded C contest is in many ways "the exact opposite of the Obfuscated C Code Contest: in this contest you must write code that is as readable, clear, innocent and straightforward as possible, and yet it must fail to perform at its apparent function. To be more specific, it should do something subtly evil."
Fox 7 news reported on this tonight in a ~2 minute segment. [more inside]