Though this be madness...

Apparently, Philip K. Dick was a big fan of Bladerunner. (Makes me want to get the DVD and watch it again.) (Note: there are flying cars in Bladerunner.) The Martin Jetpack is not a flying car. But Frank Skroback's 1935 roadable aircraft is. (WTF? We had flying cars in 1935?)

Next time you're giving a presentation, keep in mind that somebody in the audience may be down-voting you on Speaker Grader. 37signals' new book, REWORK, is a NY Times bestseller. The real value of undo is that it allows confident exploration of a software product's capabilities.

What do you hate about software development? Here's a list of ten things beginning with incompetent managers. If you hate it, perhaps you're not avoiding these 30 software development mistakes like "off by one" errors. Which one are you: a developer, a programmer, or a computer scientist? The blog of the Computing Community Consortium.

When I was in high school, one of my best friends drove a light blue 1968 Buick Skylark convertible with an 8-track tape player. He only had two 8-track tapes one of which was Genesis' Nursery Cryme. I wonder if that tape is in the 8-track tape museum in Denton, Texas.

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Here are Andre Bakker's class notes from teaching CFD at Dartmouth from 2002-2006. Learn how to make speech bubbles (not the same as drooling) purely with CSS. I'm not wearing pants. Designing for the Web, a free e-book. Here are twelve other web design e-books. (I like free.)

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• CD-adapco released STAR-CCM+ V5 with 3D-CAD capabilities.
• How CFD saved a refinery hundreds of thousands a dollars each year by optimizing the use of steam in catalyst strippers.
• EnSight launched a Chinese web site.
• Symscape's March 2010 newsletter is available.
• CEI released EnSight CFD 2.1.
• Dr. Carl Ollivier-Gooch awarded Oustanding Paper of 2009.
• Open Source CFD International Conference, 04-05 November 2010, Munich
  

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I don't know what's stranger: the fact that there's a shampoo for a lady's hoo-hah called Muff So Soft or that it comes in Honeysuckle.

Here's your mental palate cleanser: Bea Arthur Mountains Pizza.

...yet there is method. --William Shakespeare