Scott Yang's Playground

Have to blog about dalziel’s Twitter status here: Go to WhitePages. Search for “magic shop” (without the quotes) under Queensland. And you get this: Not sure whether it’s deliberated at WhitePages/Sensis, but surely it’s funny.

Via SinoSplice, Chinese Map according to Beijinger and Shanghainese. Although it is a bit of generalisation, you can pretty much see the culture difference between those two mega cities. Click to see the full size image.   It is interesting to see that they both agree on Shangdong, Wenzhou and Xinjiang. And their different opinions [...]

Agency Fusion’s latest ad campaign, Make My Logo Bigger Cream, where for merely $29.95 you can get not only the Make My Logo Bigger Cream, White Space Eliminator, Starburst Dust, Fluorescentizer, you also get Emotionator that transform your design and website! Funniest ads I have seen for ages, but I think my sites do need [...]

Went to Dominic Steele‘s talk on Matthews 7 at City Bible Forum on Wednesday. Dominic told a joke on residential colleges at UNSW, which I had not heard of before. Here it goes: Shalom College. Run by the Jews. No pork. New College. Run by the Anglicans. No beer. Warrane College. Run by the Catholics. [...]

Mark Pilgrim took the John Gruber-style translation of DHH’s response to Al3x/Twitter’s issue with Rails’ scalability. One of the funnies posts I have seen recently. “My ego is the size of Montana.” Now, if that is the size of DHH’s ego, I wonder what is the size of collective ego of the entire 37signals team? [...]

Coding Horror: The “Works On My Machine” certification program. All you need to do is check out the code, compile, run and check a specific execution path. It is fully certified if it works! I have just certified all code snippets that I have previously posted here! Now, don’t come and tell me that they [...]

The content of this post actually came up around 2 weeks ago at the dining table with Vivian… First we have the Dan Brown‘s Da Vinci Code, where Jesus married to Mary Magdalene the “Holy Grail”, had kids before he was crucified on the cross, and Jesus’ descendants moved to France to form their own [...]

A few humourous programming language stories — Raganwald: Programming Language Stories — where it looks at the attitude of C, Ruby on Rails, Java and Scheme programmers. The RoR one is my favourite as it was a derivative from another popular joke. Just inside the gates of heaven, St. Peter sits at a desk checking [...]

The Programmer hierarchy — who are considering themselves superior to whom. Very funny, and “people who insist on calling HTML a programming language” seems to be at the bottom of the stack, being considered inferior than everyone else. Another interesting point is the Ruby programmer, who consider themselves superior than Perl programmers, however the foot [...]

Mark Pilgrim: REST for toddlers. Yet another master piece, and this is just so funny. It will probably make more sense if you were required to design a web server or a HTTP client that uses comprehensive list of HTTP status code. Some of my favourite: 412 Precondition Failed: “If you don’t eat your meat, [...]

How to shoot yourself in the foot in any programming language. Very funny (if you happen to acquire different programming languages on your belt). For example, “Perl — You shoot yourself in the foot, but nobody can understand how you did it. Six months later, neither can you.”, and “Python — You try to shoot [...]

Thanks to Scott Adams for gracing us with such an insightful remark from Dilbert: “Success is the happy feeling you get between the time you do something and the time you tell a woman what you did.” Feel free to substitude “woman” with XYZ who always seems to always have something negative to say when [...]

Bruce Schneier Facts Database, along the line of Chuch Norris Facts. For example, “Bruce Schneier eats 0s and 1s for breakfast. And snacks on pi.” Being a Schneier fan myself, it is very funny indeed. Via ELER.

Via Kenneth Carlson, “Why The Mona Lisa is Smiling”, appears on Investors Business Daily editorial cartoons dated May 19, 2006. Well, that pretty much explains it. I think she should probably be laughing out loud instead. On a related note, is there anyone other than me myself that have not watched the movie nor read [...]

為什麼修電腦永遠比不上看電影 — 特別是給在 CSE 學習的同學，從邏輯的角度來分析，為什麼光是會修電腦、裝網路、重灌暈倒叉P 是不夠的。不管你修了幾台，重灌幾次都是一樣的。