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Dear the car-drivers of the internet,

Purchasing a high performance sports car with an automatic transmission (and I'm including DCTs here) is like dating a smoking hot girl but refusing to have sex with her because it's too much work and anyway a vibrator can get her there a few seconds faster.

When shopping for a sports car, part of the pre-purchase inspection should be a an examination of the little protrusions below the steering wheel.  If N < 3, move on.

Nissan GTR, every Ferrari, almost every Mercedes, I'm looking at you.

Now, if you've got a camry or a caravan, bring on the slushbox.  You're not losing anything by giving up on the intimacy thing, because you weren't there for the performance anyway.  I hear they have great personalities.

Must-read for all developers

The 7xx range of HTTP status codes.  I've had a use for many of these.

Good thing we're not in the Middle Ages anymore

Otherwise we might have to put up with this kind of shit.

What's offensive now?

So some marines are in trouble for peeing on the bodies of some folks that they killed.  Watch the video where the newz d00d says that the "offensive bits" are blurred out.

Let's pretend this is a children's magazine (and some magazine it would be!) and we're supposed to be listing the things we see in the photo:

1. Marines occupying a foreign land
2. Dead, bloody bodies
3. Urination taking place, onto said bodies
4. Penises.

Clearly, 1-3 are cool, but 4 is just... OFFENSIVE.

Two layers of fail here.  Fail the first: If you kill me and then pee on me, it's the killing that'd bug me far more than the peeing.  Fail the second: the offensive part of an image of marines desecrating their kill is... the desecrating and the kill.  Not the penis.

Now if you'll permit a sweeping generalization: nothing says "AMERICA" like the intersection of ultra-violence and prudishness.

A nice introduction to yak shaving

Can be found here.

How to set an alarm clock

Giles instructs.

Nuclear: Safe energy, or Safest Energy?

Consider this.  Of course Chernobyl makes for better TV than a bunch of individuals dying from lung cancer.  Humans are VERY vulnerable to availability bias.  So... we get what we get.