The Revolution now has a name. Say hello to the Nintendo Wii. Pronounced “wee”. Ugh. If it didn’t immediately evoke potty jokes, it wouldn’t be such a bad name. Some discussion and coverage: Revolution Fanboy, IGN, Joystiq, MetaFilter. Update 28 April: Brian pointed out this great oped over at GameLife. My favorite point: “Of course, [...]
Does stretching really lower the risk of sports injury? Sports Injury Bulletin has a really great article that discusses all of the current research, including the difficulty of avoiding the inevitable bias in cohort studies.
I wrote my first quine today, in Perl. It was surprisingly simple: $_=q($_=$$; s/\\$\\$/q($_)/; print; ); s/\\$\\$/q($_)/; print; Next step: ETA. Update 13:03: Someone beat me to it. Warning: the first line of the source is 11k characters long, which crashed my browser.
Since I switched from Bloglines to a local install of reBlog (see the Lifehacker post by Mathowie), I’ve been using it to save links to stuff that I find interesting, but don’t feel are quite important enough to post as individual things here. So I’ll probably start doing something like what Khatt’s been doing: occasional [...]