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Every friend I have with a job that involves picking up something heavier than a laptop more than twice a week eventually finds a way to slip something like this into conversation: ”Bro,1 you don’t work hard. I just worked a 4700-hour week digging a tunnel under Mordor with a screwdriver.” They have a point. Mordor sucks, and it’s certainly more physically taxing to dig a tunnel than poke at a keyboard unless you’re an ant. But, for the sake of the argument, can we agree that stress and insanity are bad things? Awesome. Welcome to programming. ...

An examination of some questionable events and circumstances leading up to the destruction of the Death Star, through the eyes of an amateur investigative journalist within the Star Wars galaxy. The focus is mainly on the connections between the people who created and operated the Death Star and those responsible for destroying it. For those who don’t care for the obvious, this is a satirical spoof of the 9/11 truther video Loose Change. ...

» Matthew Inman | theoatmeal.com

This is an animated, color, ANSI-text telnet server that renders a loop of the classic Nyan Cat animation. Open up a supported terminal and run: telnet miku.acm.uiuc.edu » Kevin Lange | miku.acm.uiuc.edu

System AdministratorAppreciation Dayhis website from its box, installed an operating system, patched it for security, made sure the power and air conditioning was working in the server room, monitored it for stability, set up the software, and kept backups in case anything went wrong. All to serve this webpage. » sysadminday.com

Le decimos a la gente que usamos Linux porque es seguro. O porque es libre, porque lo podemos adaptar a nuestras necesidades, porque es gratis, porque tiene un soporte excelente por parte de la comunidad… » wallbase.cc

» theoatmeal.com | Response to Forbes

En cierta ocasión se realizó una encuesta entre los conductores españoles que arrojó resultados sorprendentes. Aproximadamente el 95% de los conductores consideraba que conducía mejor que la media, lo que quiere decir que o bien el 5% conduce verdaderamente mal y en una escala del 1 al 10 puntúa negativo, o que en general el conductor español medio se mira por las mañanas ante el espejo de la bruja de Blancanieves. Personalmente me inclino por lo segundo. Más que nada porque el espejo me salió carísimo. En fin; pongámonos el traje de Antropólogo Indecente y vayamos a echarle un vistazo a la fauna que puebla la jungla de asfalto. ...