Actually, Knuth's "The Art of Computer Programming" reads much better in the original Klingon.

I'd like to see them cover copyright law on their show...

This is personally amusing to me because I spent half of Sunday trying to track down reports of my Android Live Wallpaper app not working properly. I guess in hindsight, it's pretty cool. I mean, it's not often that you get to lament that a rogue satellite ruined your afternoon.

Oh, and in case you were wondering why I didn't take the opportunity to shamlessly plug my app.

http://www.appidio.com/apps/radar-wallpaper/

It's a live wallpaper for Android phones that shows the nearest NWS radar imagery.

Wake me when one of these garage geneticists splices the THC gene into tomatoes or kudzu...

You sure? I thought the satnav app downloaded the basic map data for the entire calculated route for just this scenario. If not, they should...

Spill, baby, spill!

Gah. I do not get this at all. I can dig a little grooming, but what is the point of mimicking prepubescent hair growth patterns?

Are you guys *still* doing the "Microsoft is Evil" bit? Man, get with the times. Microsoft is harmlessly wandering in the desert. Now, Apple is evil. Facebook is evil. And Google is under evaluation...

LOTRO had quite a bit of hype behind it on launch, but never really took off (wasn't sufficiently different from WoW to make an impact ...)

What makes you say LOTRO didn't really take off? Multiple expansions later, it's still a very cool game with tons of players (though Turbine doesn't release subscriber numbers). If you mean that it isn't as popular as WoW, I'm sure you're right. But with 11 active servers (including decent European presence) and a 4 year run so far, I'd argue that it definitely "took off".

Not in the auto industry - it's mostly union. There is no correlation between ability and likelihood of employment.

Seconded. As a self taught programmer, classic algorithms are always my weakest link when I do an interview. Unfortunately, it's also the most glaring, since they usually teach that kind of stuff early on in COMP SCI. I had an interview with Amazon a while back and in preparation bought the book "Programming Interviews Exposed". It's a pretty good resource for getting your hands dirty with all the algorithms that a general programmer should know.

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[Grrr. Have to thwart the anti-caps filter. Thx Slashdot - Destroyer of Jokes.]

Actually - it would be less amazing than you think. There's a good chance that if there had been life on Mars, it made it's way here hitchhiking on meteorites. The gravity trip from Mars to Earth is pretty easy and there have been a number of Martian meteorites discovered on Earth.

Agreed.

Eve Online has this trait - you are partly your "character", and partly the ship you happen to be flying.