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Almost 50. I laugh through the tears at fart sounds.

That "hairy" stuff is a straightforward use of GCD semaphores to signal when an animation has finished. I just spent 20 minutes reading up on GCD and dispatch_semaphore_wait(). Thi…

"While we thought this was a fun, harmless comment poking fun ..." "Poking fun". Ha ha. That sounds like more brogrammer code to me. Probably RASCAL.

At least it was SOCA, not CHAOS or SPECTRE. Then we'd be in real trouble. Bond: "Do you expect me to talk?" Goldfinger: "No, Mr. Bond. I expect you to die."

"The ethics of military robots is quickly marching ahead, judging by news coverage and academic research." Perhaps the author means that the _use_ of military robots is quickly mar…

This patent describes a system for interactively polling users of a system about their preferences and/or opinions regarding that system's features. The stated intent is to enable …

I just spent some time looking over PSFoundation and it's a great aggregation of useful classes from all over the place. AND there's some great original code. E.g., PSActionSheet, …

Parallels and 1Password for $50 is a sweet deal. The two DVD rippers are icing. You could invert those two, I suppose and still be valid.

Yeah, the last few episodes of Sarah Connor Chronicles were really exciting. The last episode is a twister, and you really want to know what happens next in the story. Disclosure: …

I assert that Firefly without Fillion or Baldwin would be a travesty of entertainment and not worth the attempt. I'd buy two subscriptions to Netflix if it carried a new season of …

Whenever I need an Actor, I go with Nathan Fillion.

Hey. He's Al Franken...and you're not.

Xar addresses a lot of the issues presented in this article. http://code.google.com/p/xar/wiki/xarformat&#62 ; http://code.google.com/p/xar/wiki/whyxar&#62 ; But not with the nice …

This is one of the ideas put forward in Taleb's "Black Swan": by increasing your exposure to positive "Black Swan" events, you can improve your chances of being successful (with so…

Is anyone still using Facebook?