10/13/2022 Gil's LotD: Unparliamentary language
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unparliamentary_language Unparliamentary language is the words or phrases that are deemed inappropriate for use in the legislature whilst it is in session.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unparliamentary_language Unparliamentary language is the words or phrases that are deemed inappropriate for use in the legislature whilst it is in session.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VroniPlag_Wiki VroniPlag is a community project to find plagiarism in German doctoral theses.
http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2022/07/a-brief-dive-into-power-mac-inits-and.html Writing a USB mouse driver as a system extension for MacOS 9
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghilman The Quran mentions ghilman (غِلْمَان) as serving boys who are one of the delights of Jannah or paradise/heaven of Islam.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghettieis Spaghettieis is a German ice cream dish made to look like a plate of spaghetti.
http://www.fastcodesign.com/3044133/a-rare-interview-with-graphic-design-legend-massimo-vignelli Massimo Vignelli talks about his subway design.
http://dev.stephendiehl.com/numpile/ Transform Python AST into LLVM IR for JIT execution.
http://localsustainability.streamshare.com/posts/13103 The history of cornbread in the South.
http://mainframesproject.tumblr.com/ Mainframe terminals available on the public internet.
http://jasmcole.com/2014/08/25/helmhurts/ Modeling the propagation of WiFi signals in an apartment to find the perfect router location.
http://njgeo.org/2014/01/30/mitch-hedberg-and-gis/ Finding all the La Quintas that are close to a Denny's.
http://jiahao.github.io/julia-blog/2014/06/09/the-colors-of-chemistry.html A step-by-step tour on how to derive the visible spectra from absorption and emission spectra.
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~cjwatson/blosxom/2014-04-15-porting-ghc-a-tale-of-two-architectures.html The compelling story of how the Glasgow Haskell Compiler was ported to two new architectures.
http://brunching.com/pornorpony.html Is that a porn star or a My Little Pony character?
http://git-man-page-generator.lokaltog.net/ Convincingly fake git manpages.
https://github.com/bridgetkromhout/devops-against-humanity Hacker version of Cards Against Humanity.
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2014Mar/0272.html The complete history of the X Windows color list.
http://militera.lib.ru/research/suvorov12/index.html Written by a Soviet defector this book gives a great insight into the Soviet leadership's mindset.
http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/signal-safe-strcpy POSIX forbids using strcpy in signal handlers. Here's how to get around that.
http://royrapoport.blogspot.com/2011/05/coffee-and-its-effects-on-feature-creep.html Managing coffee orders in the workplace.
http://coreperf.com/projects/rejit/introduction.html Rejit is a regular expression engine that uses a JIT for code generation. It also makes use of fancy modern CPU tricks like SIMD instructions.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/17/us/the-last-e-mail-goodbye-from-gwb-to-his-42-buddies.html George W. Bush kept a mailing list of friends right up until he won the presidency.
https://www.trustwave.com/spiderlabs/advisories/TWSL2013-020.txt Satis smart toilets have a hard coded password allowing anyone to flush and lift the lid remotely.
http://basalgangster.macgui.com/RetroMacComputing/The_Long_View/The_Long_View.html The Long View writes about long-forgotten technical details from the original Macintosh system.
http://www.joyent.com/blog/introducing-kartlytics-mario-kart-64-analytics Studying Mario Kart performance over time with video analytics software.
http://www.quora.com/Linux/How-many-lines-of-code-if-any-from-Linux-1-0-are-still-in-the-modern-Linux-kernel-and-what-is-it There are more than a few lines of code from Linux 1.0 and even 0.01 in the modern kernel.