While sifting through comment spam, I stumbled upon this cry for help:

I’m conflicted.

Hold on tight, this is important.

If you hold down Left Arrow while watching a video (in the new player), you can play a snake minigame:

The video has to have focus/be ‘active’ in the browser first; the easiest way to accomplish that is to pause and resume the video, then holding down left arrow — or pausing, holding down left arrow, then hitting space to resume the video.

Not that you’d need to play Snake while watching this interesting talk on MINIX 3 by Andrew S. Tanenbaum.

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

- Carl Sagan

by Abstruse Goose

I’m not quite sure what I’d do without knowing that ((the loneliest number + the number of horns on a unicorn) / the answer to life the universe and everything) * once in a blue moon = 5.557096 × 10-10 hertz.

While experimenting with the Google Similar Pages addon for Google Chrome, I tried it on this site:

I blame the addon’s “beta” label.

Speaking of, Google Chrome Extensions are out, and they are great — except for ‘Similar Pages’, of course.

So it seems Google has opened a new office in Kirkland, with an interesting cantina:

What's that in the back?

There’s a clock on the other side, yet I never seem to be able to tell the time.

Shortly after arriving in London recently, it dawned on me why there were 182,155 personal injury road accidents in Britain in 2007:

I also made an interesting observation in a pub named The Pack Horse Inn:

“Mor” is Danish, Swedish and Norwegian for “Mom”. I’ll let you draw your own conclusions.

There are more pictures (Picasa).

Haha, this is great. FeynTube is a Greasemonkey script that does something amazing: it makes reading YouTube comments worthwhile by replacing them all with quotes from Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman.

FeynTube is a small Greasemonkey script that transforms the atrocity that YouTube comments are into reasonable and smart quotes that are actually readable without causing unexpected damage to your enjoyment, mind, temper and any vital organs (because with YouTube comments, you never know). (Greasemonkey, in turn, is a very nice Firefox extension that allows you to customize webpages.)
FeynTube achieves this accomplishment by doing the only conceivable thing: removing all YouTube comments (from your display, unfortunately they’re still on the servers) and replacing them with actual quotes from famous Nobel Prize physicist and elaborate skirt chaser Richard Feynman.

I wrote it because I actually like watching videos on YouTube, but, despite better knowledge, sometimes just couldn’t restrain myself from scrolling down and reading some of the comments–with horrible consequences. So I wrote this small script. Now, everytime I scroll down to the comment section, I can read something worthwile.