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I have a new word for you. First, some background:

typo
/tay·po/   Short for “typographical error” — historically, an error introduced by the typesetting process; now, any spelling or orthographic error in a text.
pasteo
/pes·to/   Neologism   Etymology: riff on “typo”. A typographical error introduced by careless use of Copy & Paste functionality on a computer.

And now, my addition:

search-and-replaceto
/sərč ænd riplesto/   Neologism   Etymology: riff on “typo” by way of rime with “pasteo”. An error introduced by careless use of Search & Replace (or, in my case, :%s/foo/bar in vim).

OED, are you listening?

searchhi.js: a classy hack that will highlight Google search queries in your page (using DHTML and the referring URL) from your document.onLoad() handler. (originally from kyrogenix.org)

When you just can’t get enough caffeine orally, get it transdermally with the many available varieties of Caffeinated Soap.

And the reviews are in: “Holy crap, this stuff works!” (The skeptics weigh in as well.)

Diesel fountain pens — priced, and built, for everyday use (as fountain pens go).

[15:42] <ctate> neat to see people treating fountain pens as a “current” product, subject to current design ideas.

Today’s Python finds:

An interview with Kurt Vonnegut on the State of the Union (not just the speech). And also, Law and Order.

Based on what you.ve read and seen in the media, what is not being said in the mainstream press about President Bush.s policies and the impending war in Iraq?

That they are nonsense.

Fine, fine, there are Asian-made bootlegs of The Two Towers. The video capture is pretty good; subtitles, not so much.
Reading list: How To Be A Programmer.
[10:45] * marcone wonders why there is a posting on usenet with the subject “Why is Marco Nelissen Suing Me?”
[10:45] <pixelknave>Litigate me
[10:45] <ctate> LOL
“Tonight I am proposing $1.2 billion in research funding so that America can lead the world in developing clean, hydrogen-powered automobiles,” the former Texas oil man said, not quite a Nixon-goes-to-China moment, since it actually hurts no corporation at all, but still, at least he could promise “to make our air significantly cleaner, and our country much less dependent on foreign sources of energy.” Our air presumably will get a lot dirtier first: No hydrogen cars are likely to make it on the road in the next decade, and Bush is no fan of stricter fuel-efficiency standards.

Salon’s coverage of the State of the Union address

If the Pentagon sticks to its current war plan, one day in March the Air Force and Navy will launch between 300 and 400 cruise missiles at targets in Iraq. […] On the second day, the plan calls for launching another 300 to 400 […]

The battle plan is based on a concept developed at the National Defense University. It’s called “Shock and Awe” and it focuses on the psychological destruction of the enemy’s will to fight rather than the physical destruction of his military forces.

“We want them to quit. We want them not to fight,” says Harlan Ullman, one of the authors of the Shock and Awe concept which relies on large numbers of precision guided weapons.

“So that you have this simultaneous effect, rather like the nuclear weapons at Hiroshima, not taking days or weeks but in minutes,” says Ullman.

Iraq Faces Massive U.S. Missile Barrage, CBS News

“Between copyright and copy protection laws, generalized fear of impinging on some rights, and a lack of incentive to preserve anything - pretty much all the software ever written is just gone.” From Wired: Immortal Code.

Manuel on “Hungarian” notation in source code:

pnThat vIs aA nStyle cjThat avUsually vMakes nThings ajHarder cjTo vRead.
Old Bush footage + video editing = harsh, hilarious, fake State Of The Union address.
The Atlantic Monthly: What is the Real State of the Union?
A postmortem of this year’s Super Bowl ads, full of misery.

Last night I thought there was just something wrong with my local routing tables, or maybe my ISP’s segment. Slow connections, many (but not all) DNS queries failed.

The problem was more widespread as it turns out. [disassembly]

And jwz has written a new screed on the state of video playback in Linux. The best part may be the first entry in the Random Commentary section at the bottom, on the topic of UI themes in software; this comment (and associated jwz reply) is both superlatively astute and offensive enough that you’ll have to go read it for yourself — I don’t even want to quote it here. Also, I must remember the phrase “festival of overkill”.
More colorful commentary on Slashdot: It’s not just “if it’s not broke, don’t fix it.” this is a case of “it frelling works great, keep your hands off of it or I’ll kick you in the jimmy”
Wow. So, I had stopped reading Scarygoround, shortly after I began, mostly because it seemed to be taking quite a bit of time getting up to the level of kinetic energy that his old strip had had. I’ve just started re-reading it, and like Outland following Bloom County, Scarygoround has settled nicely into a groove that happens to reside right next to the groove of its predecessor. Go check it out.

<erin> That’s pretty funny. Lot funnier than a cardboard samurai warrior.

Penny-Arcade: As it happens, there’s another license out there now that we think could be a real blockbuster. Get it? Blockbuster.
CSS signatures: User-defined custom stylesheets for specific sites.
Gabe: I swear to God sometimes I think Piro is about three sad girl drawings away from a complete breakdown.

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