Off you go… into the purple yonder!

Sadly, this is just for a few weeks…

“”
Sorry, that was the nearest book – page 56 is a blank page. Second nearest then.
“The variable’s name must be a valid identifier”
Rules:
* Grab the book nearest you. Right now.
* Turn to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence
* Post that sentence along with these instructions
* [...]

This country never ceases to amaze me. Everything is standardized – down to the kind of cheese you get when you order a sandwich. There’s American, Swiss, Cheddar, Provolone, etc.
Somehow Emmentaler, Gruyere and the many other cheeses from Switzerland got standardized into ‘Swiss cheese’.
And that ‘Swiss cheese’ often tastes best when imported – from [...]

On the green line, near Park Street station:
People pay a lot of money for rides like this in Disney Land
… while commenting on a particularly bumpy ride on the green line.

Swiss chard is a curious vegetable. Raw, it smells like rhubarb. It looks like rhubarb – though the stems are not as thick.
When cooked, it smells like spinach and the leaves taste like spinach too. But it has the same effect on your teeth as rhubarb!
Of course, the real question is why it is called [...]

I’ve wondered for a while why so many laptops come with highly reflective screens. Today I found out why: I saw a guy on the subway actually using the screen of his laptop as a mirror to get his hair straightened out!

One of my favorite meat-substitutes is Quorn. It can be hard to find in the US but we picked some up the other day, and today I noticed this bit of text on the packaging:
Happily, Quorn products not only contain mycoprotein, but also have that great taste you’re looking for. That’s why, in Europe, where [...]

I’ve had a pretty serious dislike for Sony for a while. I feel Sony management is running the company in the ground by letting the (relatively tiny) content divisions of the Sony empire run the show. This leads to crippled hardware (Sony’s ‘mp3′ players, hah!), and is one of the main reasons why I refuse [...]

Yep, Sun kept their promise and released the full chip design for their latest Sparc CPU under the GPLv2. You need a SPARC system with (expensive) commercial software to do anything with the design, but I still think this is a pretty significant moment.
I’m very much looking forward to what will come out of this. [...]