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 against the natural order of things.
— Douglas Adams
Things are rarely just crazy enough to work, but they're frequently crazy enough to fail hilariously.
— http://xkcd.com/580/ (hovertext)
A wonderful social engineering hack on how to ensure that expensive things actually get to where they're going with no additional screening when flying.
While DSLRs are quickly taking over the world, you can't carry them around. This article from Lifehacker has great tips for getting good shots with the camera that you actually do carry around.
Interesting discussion on the birth of the iTunes LP format and its lack of success in the music market.
Welcome to a world with HTML5 ! Not all browsers support these features yet (here's to you, IE)
dbsw:
Chewbacca finally gets his medal.
Interesting article on the transition from 512 byte allocation sectors to 4096 allocate sectors in hard drives and the resulting problems it will cause Windows XP users in the coming years.
Great article on the cut-and-paste mentality of modern programming.
My new favorite company just confirmed support for OS X for the Steam platform and the Source engine. Wohoo!