Tattoo a swastika on your forehead, and I'll stop raping your daughter. You can send me money you would have spent on psychiatrists.

(Ignoring your obviously good points)

"Freedom fries" or "Peace pies", is it so different?

I recommend playing Z-Type all the time... :P But maybe I'm not a good one to take advice from:

Level 25 (?)
Final Score: 002651
Accuracy: 94.5%
Words Per Minute: 46.5

(Of course, you can't really judge your WPM from that (spend time waiting for new "targets"), but it's an interesting concept.)

Moose should be a swear word. Every time I've encountered Moose, it just made maintenance harder. The argument about eliminating boilerplate code is laughable, when you look at any Moose class with pages of crap at the top. (should be indented, but slashdot ecode sucks)

has 'blah' => {
is => 'rw',
isa => 'Str',
};

Thanks, I could've put that in a hash, and I didn't really care if it was a string or modifiable. Now I get useless Java-like stacktraces to boot. Not to mention the implicit things like "_build", "clear", and reimplementations of things that were already native perl (traits; oh, wow, I can....count the number of items in an array now? and return those items? and tell if it was empty? Thanks for the unnecessary crap, oh yes this is much more readable....).

Well, that settles it, as I'm sure a "genius investor" has no self-interest in saying what he says.

Double-edged sword: I've never played Crysis because of the impression that it wouldn't run well. Good luck selling to all those performance testers!

I guess this makes Bruce Schneier a courtier?

So "outed on Twitter" is now the standard for "tech news".... Sighdot

These fashion-obsessed, grammatically-challenged posts could bee seen as arguments four SpaceX....

I have a gluten intolerance, so your "Bud uses rice" parenthetical comment interested me; soooo.... googling/wikipedia-ing, I was somewhat-pleasantly surprised to find that Bud and Corona do have less than 20 ppm gluten, so maybe.....I (or my immune system) could tolerate those (the "research" seems a bit controversial). I do (did) for some reason like Corona, though it's probably safer to stick with wine. Anyway, IMHO wine has a perfect level of alcohol for getting a little buzz going without getting too drunk while at the same time avoiding excess bloating/pissing.

Ignoring your sarcasm: 200k user id, when did you sign up for slashdot....? :) Very web-lazily, http://anti-slash.org/essays/uid_analysis/ , 700k in 2003, so you signed up (errm, when did I sign up?) around 2000? So as a 9ish-year old you were a slashdot prodigy? ^.^ (or using your daddy's account, heh)

You said online but also said willing to pay, so for what it's worth....

Linus Pauling's "General Chemistry" is brilliant and a Dover Publication so it's cheap and a classic.

For a popular introduction to science (esp. great explanations of the chemical bonds, but also amazing word play...): The Canon, by Natalie Angier.

Better to use crucified Jesus, then we could really see the feces hit the rotor.

You seem a bit sensitive about people who are too sensitive.

Einstein had learned about [tensors], with great difficulty, from the geometer Marcel Grossmann.