Sodium Dreams

And if it looks anything remotely like a 7″ iPhone, I’ll eat my hat.

— I hope you like the taste of wool, Mr. Stein♥

A man, a plan, a canoe, pasta, heros, rajahs, a coloratura, maps, snipe, percale, macaroni, a gag, a banana bag, a tan, a tag, a banana bag again (or a camel), a crepe, pins, Spam, a rut, a Rolo, cash, a jar, sore hats, a peon, a canal—Panama!

— Guy Steele’s version of the extensible Panama palindrome♥

You need to specify what you want to search for, 3chars at least

— A php.net search error message. Is 3chars anything like 4chan?♥

Viral marketing idea: A truck pulls up and sprays a gravy hose at people waiting for a bus. Later, they remember to buy Keds.

— Jordan Morris [The sad thing is that it would work.] (via merlin)♥

A Subversion filesystem has its data spread throughout various database tables in a fashion generally understood by only the Subversion developers themselves.

— Thanks, guys. That makes me feel great about my data.♥

It’s humbling that I could be killed by 3.2 kilobytes of genetic data. Then again, with 850 Mbytes of data in my genome, there’s bound to be an exploit or two.

— Andrew Huang, on hacking genomes (via Bruce Schneier)♥

Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.

— Bill Vaughan  (via hunsonisgroovy)♥

When anything is made, people will find a way to see their reflection in it. As soon as their reflection appears, they’ll want to fuck it.

— Paul Constant, on narcissism, in his review of twitter using twitter♥

LISP remains an influential language in ‘key algorithmic techniques such as recursion and condescension.’

— James Iry. A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages♥

If you change this on a server already in use, it will break all of the outstanding working copies and your users will hunt you down with pitchforks and flaming torches.

— The SVN Book, Apache Configuration Directives. It’s nice to know this feature is documented.♥