Kinda went to town on the pix and quotes today, oh well.
Pizza-Pro 3000tm. No comment.
[v Friend Dennis]
And speaking of tools ...
The Ultimate Dogfooding Story. In the world of software, "dogfooding" refers to testing software by using it yourself. ("Eat your own dogfood.") Jeff links to a post by Erik that references a thingy named Sawstop, which is a safety device for table saws. Here's Erik:Slide a piece of wood into the spinning blade, and it cuts the board just like it should. Slide a hot dog into the spinning blade, and it stops instantly, leaving the frankfurter with nothing more than a nick.
The interesting part of the story (read Erik's piece) is how this guy tested the device.
Fastidious spelling snobs pushed over the edge. People who get wigged out by spelling errors might be suffering additional stress, given current economic ills.[1] [via Fritinancy]
Lexicon. Facebook has a neat little app that "counts occurrences of words and phrases on Walls over time." (Must have a Facebook account to use, of course.) Here are a few of examples that I found interesting (click to see larger images):
Search term: "Obama" (note spike, which is in November):
Search term: "Mike" (note extremely even distribution -- hey, it's a popular name!)
Search term: "Mariners" (note that the range is essentially baseball season. The uber-observant might note that the graph falls off
before the World Series, haha.)
