May 2

Poison Pie is a nicely appropriate name for these gastrointestinal irritants. Their alternative name, Fairy Cake Mushrooms, is misleading to the point of irresponsibility. (from "Mushrooms", by John Wright; image.)

Poison Pie is a nicely appropriate name for these gastrointestinal irritants. Their alternative name, Fairy Cake Mushrooms, is misleading to the point of irresponsibility. (from "Mushrooms", by John Wright; image.)

Sydney's forecast for this week (my dissertation is due Wednesday) EDIT: This forecast turned out to be right :)

It's hard to be concerned about Google's search tracking when they get things this wrong. ("Automotive anything" competes with "reading the digits of pi in a monotone" for thing I am least interested in in the entire world.)
Facebook: Facemash "used photos compiled from the online facebooks of nine Houses, placing two next to each other at a time and asking users to choose the 'hotter' person".
YouTube: the founders of YouTube stated that they originally set out to make a version of Hot or Not with Video before developing their more inclusive site.
(quotes from Wikipedia)
Bears: Godless killing machines. (Stephen Colbert)
Spiders: Godless spinning machines. (Diogenes, fark.com)
Atheists: Godless sinning machines. (MandyJoBo, tressugar.com)
Americans: Godless sex machines. (billi789, mediamatters.org)
The Universe: Godless vending machine. (aish.com)
Special thanks: Google. Not yet in the Snowclones Database.
Tedious caller: Hello Joel and Jeff. My name is Jeffrey Wiens, and I have been a developer for around four years. I'm currently in an applied mathematics graduate program because I needed something more challenging than what my previous jobs could offer. How would you deal with programmers like me, that are intellectually bored at work?
Joel Spolsky: There are no bored people, there are only BORING people. If you're bored at work it's because you're a boring person.
-- Stack Overflow podcast #82