“At the beginning of the twentieth century, there was a serious scare about an imminent Malthusian crisis: the world’s rapidly expanding population was coming up against the limits of agricultural productivity… Earl Butz, Nixon’s Secretary of Agriculture, was despised by organic farmers, but he might not have been wrong when he said, in 1971, that […]
“You know, that’s the first thing I do when I hit a browser bug I can’t pin down - start cutting the styles in half. Doesn’t matter which half, just start narrowing down the potential culprits by halves until I’ve got it down to one or two lines. Glad I’m a web designer and not […]
“‘Like many young technicians, he is apt to say things like, ‘Microsoft has worse products but better marketing.’ When uttered by a software developer, the term ‘marketing’ simply stands in for all that business stuff: everything they don’t actually understand about creating software and selling it. This, actually, is not really what ‘marketing’ means. Actually […]
“I want a sundae so big, they’ll called it a ‘mondae.’” Stan, at The Sugar
Tags: food, funny
Fourthmeal: The meal between dinner and breakfast.” Taco Bell
Tags: business, food, lifestyle, marketing, time
“I had a bottle of water and an apple in my backpack that I gave to this one little girl, she might have been 5 or so. I think it was the first taste of clean water she had ever had in her life, and she didn’t quite know what to do with the apple. […]
“SELECT eggs (*) AS ingredients
FROM Refrigerator
GROUP BY NO.dozen
INSERT INTO my_fryingpan (eggs1, butter1)
UPDATE my_table SET toast = ‘lightly browned’
INSERT hole INTO toast
MERGE eggs INTO toast
USING (
SELECT Eggs, Toast)
CREATE Breakfast eggy_toast
DELETE FROM my_table WHERE plate = ‘N’” digitaldc, MySQL Cookbook
Tags: food, funny, technology
“Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is […]
“Video games are an unusual medium in that they carry a heavy stigma among nongamers. Not everybody likes ballet, but most nonballet fans don’t accuse ballet of leading to violent crime and mental backwardness. Video games aren’t so lucky. There’s a sharp divide between gamers and nongamers, and the result is a market that, while […]
“What we see in films like American Beauty and Fight Club is not actually a critique of consumerism; it’s merely a restatement of the ‘critique of mass society’ that has been around since the 1950s. The two are not the same. In fact, the critique of mass society has been one of the most powerful […]