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Q: What’s the difference between Ant and Maven? <br/> A: The creator of Ant has apologised.

via James Duncan Davidson.

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In the iPhone SDK (with camel case broken out into separate words):

attention class dump user yes its us again although swizzling and overriding private methods is fun it wasnt much fun when your app stopped working please refrain from doing so in the future okay thanks bye

Via Erica Sadun.

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Tip o’ the hat to Bishop Hill

In the US Congress, it looks as though they look across the Atlantic to our own Galumphin’ Gordon Brown for inspiration. This might look a bit like getting your chat-up lines from Benny Hill

Note: this post is only tagged as funny because if you don’t laugh then your only remaining options are to cry or take up arms…

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GameSetWatch is reporting about a new ‘motion-based erotic game’ for the Nokia N95:

Players have to move and tilt their phone along with the game’s music …, Play also seems to use the handset’s vibration function in some manner.

Oh yeah, I’ll just bet it does!

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Via the BBC:

A life-size replica of a Guantanamo Bay detainee has been placed in Disneyland by “guerrilla artist” Banksy.

The hooded figure was placed inside the Big Thunder Mountain Railroad ride at the California theme park last weekend.

I mean, just how do you sneak in a life sized model in broad daylight? The mind boggles.

Wired’s Worst Software Bugs Comments Off

Ironically enough, following this link to a supposed article about buggy software yields the image below (as of 13:39 GMT+2): Wired's 404 Error Page

Word of the Day… Comments Off

“Thoughtwanker” via the BileBlog.

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I used to read Tom Coates’ weblog regularly, and came back to it after a break today. This post pretty much sums up my thoughts about David Blaine, and is very funny at the same time. My favourite quote?

…you too could make it if you just ate less mexican food and got your teeth fixed.