monday, november 08, 2004
Six stale links
Here are some things that have been sitting in my bookmarks bar for a long, long time. Too big for delicious, too small to discard, I can finally free them now.
Reflections on Trusting Trust, in which Ken Thompson presents “the cutest program [he] ever wrote.” I don’t quite follow it — something about a quine, a C compiler, and a clever trojan horse — but it’s cool.
Motorcyclist can’t drive 205, experts say, from the Duluth News Tribune. This guy got a speeding ticket for going faster than his motorcycle can go, possibly due to a half-second timer error. The neat thing, if you’re a Bob Dylan nerd, is that it was on Highway 61.
“The high-class, wild animal version of [that] classic kitten image…”
Scientists calculate how high heels can go. Apparently, it depends on your shoe size, how sexy the shoes are, how much they cost, and the amount of alcohol consumed. Assuming my shoes cost $50 and are fairly fashionable, I can wear two-inch heels. Maybe they need another variable for how much you like heels. I’ll stick to my saddle shoes.
Students disciplined for award campaign: “Officials disciplined students who papered their nearly all-white high school with posters advocating a white student from South Africa for the school’s ‘Distinguished African American Student Award.’” I still can’t decide what to think about this.
Dudley’s Dungeon meditates on a boy named @. Those crazy Nethack people.
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