Who owns the fish?
I ran across a link on SvN to an interesting logic puzzle called Whose Fish?. It purports to be a logic puzzle created by Albert Einstein, and claims Einstein said 98% of the population would not be...
View ArticleThe fish returns
From the people who brought us Who Owns The Fish? comes a new logic puzzle, School of Government. I just ran across this today, and the answer deadline is tomorrow, so that was cutting it a little...
View ArticleMouseHole and JavaScript
So why has been talking about MouseHole lately. If you’re unaware, MouseHole is a ruby script that acts as a web proxy and filters HTML documents via ruby scripts. Or for a much better look at it, go...
View ArticleRSS feed for crash reports
Inspired by a script mentioned on ranchero.com, I wrote a ruby script that generates an RSS feed for all the Crash Reporter logs on your machine. Just create a New Special Subscription in NetNewsWire,...
View ArticleThe Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny
My friend from college just sent me a link to The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny, which is the greatest thing I have seen in a while. I managed to find the website for the guy(s?) who did the...
View ArticleMacUpdate oddity
Last night I tried searching MacUpdate for bittorrent or Azureus and got zero results. I thought that to be very strange, and wondered if Joel decided to take an anti-piracy stance (despite the fact...
View ArticleHaml: A new markup format for Rails
Haml is a new markup format for Ruby on Rails apps that just hit 1.0. At first glance it looks pretty odd, but it turns out to be really easy to write in, and it’s shorter and, actually, easier to read...
View ArticleThe Resurrection of Typosphere
After months of absence, Typosphere has returned from the dead! We migrated off of Planet Argon and onto DreamHost, where we should have more control. We also upgraded to Trac 0.10.3 and turned off...
View ArticleTweet Tweet
There’s a new site that’s been getting really popular lately called Twitter. If you haven’t heard of it, it’s basically a status message, like IM, but actually usable. Twitter provides XML/JSON feeds,...
View ArticleWebKit and handling of surrogate pairs in HTML entities
In this modern day, HTML entities can reference arbitrary unicode codepoints. For example, ☃ is the entity for . Not surprisingly, WebKit appears uses UTF-16 internally to represent unicode...
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