Terry Jones (the programmer Terry Jones, not the Python Terry Jones), compiled a “Women’s guide to HTTP status codes for dealing with unwanted geek advances“. The list may be useful for other purposes, too. Here’s the beginning: Here’s a women’s guide to the most useful HTTP status codes for dealing with unwanted geek advances. Someone […]
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The mantis on the monitor
A mantis playing with (or being played with by a human via) a cursor. This epic one-minute nature adventure was video’d by Maria Plumb and Rod Thompson (and propagated by BoingBoing):
Defense Against the Dark Arts (CPU)
The influence of Harry Potter spreads deeper: “Defense Against the Dark Arts,” Mark W. Bailey, Clark L. Coleman and Jack W. Davidson, Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education archive, Proceedings of the 39th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education, Portland, OR, USA, 2008, pp. 315-319. The authors, at Hamilton College, Clinton, NY and at […]