A really really really NERD novel by Cory Doctorow in which a bunch of sysadmins strive to keep the good ol' Net online after a catastrophic event that brought the entire world to its knees, while fighting with scarce power and food supplies, and communicating over the Usenet... the "good old alt. hierarchy".

Vote: 10+ for the geekiest thing I've ever read, it's really worth the hour needed to read it fully. Enjoy it.

This is an "Hello world!" program, implemented in the Shakespeare programming language. Awesome!

The Infamous Hello World Program.

Romeo, a young man with a remarkable patience.

Juliet, a likewise young woman of remarkable grace.

Ophelia, a remarkable woman much in dispute with Hamlet.

Hamlet, the flatterer of Andersen Insulting A/S.

                    Act I: Hamlet's insults and flattery.

                    Scene I: The insulting of Romeo.
  

[19:51'17"]       vjt| certo che potresti registrarti su sniffo.org eh
[19:51'40"]    sukren| e lo sai che sono gay

Mi raccomando, al momento della compilazione del tuo profilo metti "Molto ghei"

sufijazz writes "Scientists have gotten tiny robots to not only integrate into cockroach society but also control it. 'This experiment in bug peer pressure combined entomology, robotics and the study of ways that complex and even intelligent patterns can arise from simple behavior.

Impressive, isn't it? Like a bird's-eye look over the oil consumption/production currently tearing down the fscking world to its fscking knees. It sucks.

From http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/

ChangeLog-2.6.23.2           16-Nov-2007 16:22   18K  
ChangeLog-2.6.23.3           16-Nov-2007 16:28   20K  
ChangeLog-2.6.23.4           16-Nov-2007 16:41   21K  
ChangeLog-2.6.23.5           16-Nov-2007 17:29   10K  
ChangeLog-2.6.23.6           16-Nov-2007 17:35   32K  
ChangeLog-2.6.23.7           16-Nov-2007 17:45  3.0K  
ChangeLog-2.6.23.8           16-Nov-2007 18:16  2.0K  

Then, one says.. WTF?!

UPDATE: Greg K-H said that this is meant to make life easier to reviewers. What do you think? Two friends of mine said "screw it up, linux gonna die! {hurd,freebsd,solaris,darwin} ftw!"

I simply think that a -stable tree is ought to be .. well.. stable.. but what's stable in linuxland these days? .. also, if I'd only like the security updates, should I apply the seven patches and maybe break some other thing? No-no Greg, this time I'm disappointed. But I still like Linux .. so I'll swallow the pill and hope that no Bad Thing (tm) will happen. sigh.

After some hours of pattern matching, html analysis and such, I've come up with a fuzzy IMDB scraper implemented using scRUBYt!, that can be used to extract any kind of information from the huge IMDB database in a programmatical way.

Here it is, straight from the scRUBYt wiki.

I hope you enjoy it .

One of the best xkcd stories out there, which reached completion today. Go read the 5 parts. Exciting.

From http://www.zefrank.com/snm/index.html (tks nextie!)