This would be much preferable to the current digital signage I made at the office.

The main syntactic problem is to determine whether the fuck is being used as an pleonastic (semantically empty) direct object of shut or as a pre-head modifier of the preposition phrase (PP) headed by up.

"So, Jailbroken users. Please remember that your iPhone or iPod isn't a standard one, we don't mind that. But if your non standard installation is causing you problems, it's up to you (and the jailbreaking community) to fix the problem. "

"I claim that if you don't take those rules to heart in your own source code then you are either unprofessional, lazy, not a team-player, or all of the above. If you as a software developer take pride in your professionalism and quality of your work then you have to consider that it is not only the achieved functionality for which you are being paid: The code you produce in almost all cases becomes property of your employer, and thus, the code itself also a product (and actually the most important product) you deliver. And how useful that code if for the team who has to work with it is what really determines its value."

This review warms my heart. I need to eat here.

I lost it at "Free Dog Souls With Conversion".

Counterpoint.

Point.

How can you apply Getting Real-ish ideas inside a big company? Here’s an idea: Go rogue. Pick something and do it under the radar. Create something in a few weeks that normally takes a few months. Do something in a way that works better than the status quo (or shows the promise of working better), Then you won’t need to convince anyone with words — the results will speak for themselves.

If you liked the Bourne movies — but thought they weren’t xenophobic enough, or sexist enough, or monotonous enough, or just plain ol’ shitty enough — you’ll love “Taken.”

Rands on being done.

Tips from Eliza to tourists. All need to be heeded.

The GAF Eegra thread reminded me to read this.

"We make the most wonderful food preparations seem so exotic and beyond reach. Why? They’re not. They’re right before us. And they require no special ingredient and no skill beyond common sense."

"I got your flock of haircuts right here, pal."

The number of things wrong with this ad are many.

Long essay about how the OLPC screwed the pooch.

Great rant about scalability and capacity planning.

Rands on compensation packages.

David Emery reflects on the resemblance of "Skins" to real life, and the ways that the Internet has changed gig organization.

"I say unto you: Fat is good! Fat is necessary. Ask any chef. Fat does not make you fat, eating too much makes you fat!"

"What tiny, deeply disturbed demo were they trying to appeal to here? German Scat Porn websites likely attract greater numbers."

"Every lecture contains one lie."

Robyn's excellent guide to macarons.

Jaffe and Stephen talk about music in games, emotion, and NWA.

I decided to act like a 7-year-old and feed my favourite curse words to Google Code to see what might be found.

So with the hype of "Cloverfield" descending upon us, I provide a minor, but sobering, word of caution to the unadulterated fan boys and girls who know JJ Abrams only as the zeitgeisty genius of "Alias," "Lost" and perhaps "Felicity."

"Americans overdress their pasta 99.9 percent of the time. It should never be a bowl of soup. It should be noodles, with a little stuff."

And the ultimate yuppified result: A 13 shot venti soy hazelnut vanilla cinnamon white mocha with extra white mocha and caramel. It cost a total of $13.76 (with tax).

"The “new journalism” is great. I’m all for the new journalism. But just like the old journalism, the new journalism needs a moral compass. If that moral compass occasionally needs to be un-stuck via a high-profile lawsuit, then that’s fine. That

"Another shitstorm is brewing for the OLPC team over their "innovative" user Sugar interface which turns out to be almost a direct copy of the Robotron video game."

Enterprise software implementation consultants often benefit financially when their clients’ projects fail. Anyone buying software implementation services should be aware of this fact.

'IF YOU SAY "Drink the Kool-Aid" ONE MORE GODDAMN TIME, I'M GOING TO BURST THROUGH THE WALL AT YOUR OFFICE, KILL YOU IN A VERY UNSIGHTLY AND BLOODY WAY, AND THEN SCREAM "Oh, YEAH!"'

Mario Batali's pasta recipe of the day.

An absolutely must read. Fantastic story.

A good laugh for anyone still steaming about the MTA's inability to deal with rain.

Will Hines on filming in public spaces in NYC. "I don’t know the law, and my beef is not really one of civil legality. It’s one of innate rights to tell a story and form one’s own opinion."

"When your boss learns of the fuck-up, you shouldn't be worried whether there's an odd metallic taste in his mouth, you should worry about who he's about to turn into."

Cabel reviews what's new in consumer foodstuffs.

Very cute story.

"But you know what? There are no miracle cures for bringing games to the Mac. You just have to be smart, work hard, don't over-promise or commit yourself to things you can't deliver. "

Surprisingly well-reasoned argument about toilet paper.

Singstar tester submits bug about "Woman" by Wolfmother not being included in the song list. Slight hilarity ensues.

So today I get something in the mail which I think brings my time on The King of Queens to a poetic, poignant close. It’s a letter and gift certificate from Patrick Lenow, the Director of the “Celebrity VIP Club” for the International House of Panc

"Well, I can think of a few better places. Like, a computer store? Or a newspaper advertisement? Web sites? No, sorry. You're right. Indy car makes sense. Huge crossover audience between the two camps."

Chang on the Momofuku changes en route. "I’d like to be cooking more than I am right now, but I’m the asshole who runs around and answers the phone and poses for photographs with Martha Stewart now. Nobody else on my staff wants the job."

“Three years of legal education has been wasted because of an unmoderated message board.” Comments here are a complete and utter trainwreck.

"Who, more to the point, would possibly put their faith in some idiot on the internet whose only demonstrable labor is utterly useless blog posts?"

"As with most technologies, email marketing can be a double-edged sword...To avoid being painted with the same brush as the bad guys, there are a few pitfalls to avoid..."

"But what if we’re not trying to fool anyone, but just have some fun with a goddamn wig?"

"I used to have the strength to argue against such foolishness. Nowadays I’m reduced to nothing more than Grey’s-Anatomy-esque catchphrases. Seriously? Seriously? Do I really have to explain why this is a bad idea? Again?"

Rands on public speaking.

Two varieties of Coca-Cola. Both sweetened with cane sugar, rather than high fructose corn syrup. On the surface–could they be more similar? And yet if we look a bit more closely, we find they have vastly disparate pedigrees. Which is the ultimate?

"So, about a year and a half ago we began work on a new piece of software for Mac OS X." Cabel on Coda.

Good stuff from Nick Douglas.

"As the 30th anniversary of the Alameda-Weehawken burrito tunnel approaches..." Maciej is hilarious as always.

New post of mine for the QS crowd.

Technorati, the blog search engine, is searching for a new CEO... I guess it would be snide to suggest that their search will take forever, miss the obvious candidates and eventually time out with no results? Oh well.

"What I really need is some kind of atomizer that will expel a fine mist of emulsified salt crystals in a light oil, but I have yet to hear of a company offering this ingenious product to the ordinary consumer."

Jane reflects on having her bag stolen.

On the left, Eliza Skinner. On the right, an adorable baby.

Perhaps incendiary, but terribly truthful and worth heading.

Insight into the work of the QI elves.

Julie takes on gays and nuts.

Mac OS X has an additional interesting account for a user named unknown. Unknown has the UID (user ID) number 99, which is treated specially in the kernel and in some user-level libraries.

The terrifying reality regarding your resume is that for all the many hours you put into fine-tuning, you've got 30 seconds to make an impression on me. Maybe less.

Suw on a recent 6A marketing email.

Ben on why the upcoming TaQ piece performance at Carnegie Hall is such a big deal.

"As you hear these tracks you'll either decide Daft Punk isn't as genius as you thought they were or that they're twice as amazing."

Official Singstar PS3 blog over at IGN.

Bruni weighs in on taking pictures at restaurants.

Rogers lazywebs a fast food investigation. "Something smells here, and it isn't the delectable aroma of spicy buffalo sauce."

Probably the most amazing medical story I've read in months.

"If all but one of the reviews of the day are of bands you've never heard of, take a drink. If you've heard of none of them, take two."

Jay also announces that he's left Six Apart to go back to consulting.

I think this means I'm going to hell 2.5 times.

If you've ever wanted to personally bitch out PM Dawn for whatever reason, now's apparently your chance.