this superstition index is fun to read.

ha ha ha. this is kind of amusing.

check out google trends for the words “i wish”

it seems there’s a spike in “wishing” through google near christmas time. i remember when it was candles on a cake, an eyelash you stick down your shirt, a dandelion you blow the little white things off of, a pond into which you throw a penny. crossing your fingers. a wishbone.

why programmers grow beards

that comes from this codinghorror post “size is the enemy” (about programmers who think they can build huge pieces of software with relative ease).

I found the coding horror entry off of RandomAccess’s del.icio.us

oh its hilarious

Erin: “How do we keep them out for sure then?”

Bobo: “We’ll use a salt”

Erin: (shocked) “Don’t you think that’s going a little too far?”