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

typo

/ta^y·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?

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:

• Py-Funk: on-demand caching of Web content.
• PiP: Python in PHP
• PyBlosxom: A Python version of Perl’s Blosxom, a files-in-directories weblog system much like this one right here.

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.

“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

Manuel on “Hungarian” notation in source code:

pnThat vIs aA nStyle cjThat avUsually vMakes nThings ajHarder cjTo vRead.

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]