“copypasta 324 up, 43 down A derogatory term for forum posts which contain a direct or nearly direct copy-and-paste of memes, posts from older forum discussions, or other material, often accompanied by an attempt to pass off the contents as new and original.”

- Urban Dictionary: copypasta

“He built a sloping road around the perimeter of the mall, so that half of the shoppers entered on the ground floor and half on the first floor”

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i’ve always wondered that about shopping malls

Retailing | Birth, death and shopping | Economist.com

Science Machine on Vimeo (via Vimeo)

“Don’t buy things just to get a tax deduction.”

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a good sign that i’m reading the ‘for dummies’ version

Home Business Tax Deductions: Keep What You Earn

“a handful of messages on Sunday morning that had a single bit corrupted such that the message was still intelligible, but the system state information was incorrect. […] we didn’t have [..] protection in place to detect whether this particular internal state information had been corrupted. As a result, when the corruption occurred, we didn’t detect it and it spread throughout the system”

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this feels like the future

AWS Service Health Dashboard - Amazon S3 Availability Event: July 20, 2008

“Yes, e-mail me my Fandango Ticket Confirmation and updates on movies & everything entertainment.
(To only receive your ticket confirmation e-mail, uncheck this box.)”

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That wording is annoying, great work!

Fandango - Your Personal Box Office

““without having to go through the painful process of learning and writing codes!””

- amazing

“She didn’t know that if something was blue and underlined, you could click on it.”

- In the Basement of the Ivory Tower

““And wear a helmet, for pete’s sake. Your brain’s in there.””

- Photojojo

“Use It annoys the people who think web design is graphic design”

- The web design guru that web designers love to hate | Technology | The Guardian

“10 days, in which to write a novel. He rented a modern typewriter, secluded himself in his apartment and started to type. Soon a problem appeared: the typewriter had a modern plastic ribbon. The plastic mellowed and became sticky: it was July in Iowa City, and the apartment was hot. The only way to prevent the ribbon from getting stuck is to keep the ribbon moving. And the only way to keep the ribbon moving is to keep pressing the keys.”

- LtU Classic Archives

“# Data-loss bugs
# Unavoidable crashers
# Functionality-blocking bugs
# Avoidable crashers
# Avoidable bugs
# Misfeatures
# Performance issues
# Feature suggestions
# UI feedback”

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the order of pain

Call Me Fishmeal.: Pimp My Code, Part 15: The Greatest Bug of All

“When something is too hard it means that you’re not cheating enough. DHH”

- Projectionist: A tumblelog

“Because it’s your web.”

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come and find me, i’m on the internet

Userscripts.org

superamit:

I’m interested in how people are using Tumblr

• how many people they follow
• how many people follow them
• why they use it

So I put together a quick unofficial survey.

If you’re interested, too, please take it. You can be anonymous and most fields are optional.

All the data will be public in a week or so.

→→→→ Tumblr Survey ←←←←

Please reblog so we get more responses!

“most conversations in English are between nonnative speakers”

- How English Is Evolving Into a Language We May Not Even Understand

Action Figure Slow Motion Punches (via kaethor)

is this true?

Penny Arcade! - Apprehension

““anarchy projects” to let off steam”

- Stevey’s Blog Rants: Done, and Gets Things Smart

StumbleVideo - Umbilical Brothers - Video

 i’m reposting this so i can save it for myself and it is amazing

Fred Astaire Michael Jackson - Smooth Criminal [short film] (via )