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 on Taiwan. [...]

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. No girls. Kensington Colleges. [...]

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 [...]

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 cult. [...]

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 people [...]

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, [...]