strangepants

• With encoded semicolon for delayed input
• With encoded comma for delayed input
• With 2 commas for pause
• With 3 commas for pause
• With 4 commas for pause
• With semicolon for delayed input
• With Blackberry/Nokia ‘p’ for pause
• With Blackberry/Nokia ‘w’ for delayed input
• With RFC postd param for delayed input
• With RFC ext param for delayed input

No sugar for you!

I just scored a sealed sugar sachet containing no sugar.

Pure retrospective gold from start-up survivor. A humorous, if painful, narrative that most software developers will be able to identify with.

Tobias Schneider (of Gordon fame) has written a barcode scanner in JavaScript in response to Remy Sharp’s request on Twitter (only yesterday). It uses canvas to read the pixels from an image, and prints out the UPC code that the barcode represents. Since JavaScript doesn’t normally have…

luclatulippe:

Click for full sized version of Nathanthenerd’s Doctor Who New Series Timeline.

OMG this is ridiculous and I also love it. It’s possibly the most sense anyone has ever injected into time travel stories (which drive me crazy). 

(Source: nathanthenerd, via luclatulippe)

Rebecca Murphey puts together some thoughts on rising above journeyman javascript dev

(Source: smileycat.com)

Sorting algorithms explained using folk dance. A brilliant idea from some clever people at Sapientia University in Romania.

Via FlowingData

Unwired’s has made an interesting choice of domain name for their free hotspots.