Due largely to the incredible driving skills of my wife, I got an ultra-rare Halo 3 achievement tonight: Invincible. It's the medal you get for killing thirty people in a row without dying. Check out the game results! I'm not sure I'll ever be topping this one.

Paul Graham explores some of the lies we teach kids, and some of the possible effects.

Steven Levitt of Freakonomics fame writes:

I believe consumers systematically exaggerate the importance of gas prices to their budgets. The typical American just doesn’t spend that much money on gas. The way we buy gas — every week or two, with the prices staring us in the face as we stand at the pump — makes price fluctuations far more visible than for other goods.

I wholeheartedly agree. Though it was painful to fill up the truck last week!

Here are 100... well, 99... reasons that you should not become an IBM executive. It's IBM executive Robert LeBlanc and the Who's Line Is It Anyway crew, featuring Drew Carey, navigating a live "minefield" of mouse traps.

If you aren't laughing at these Best Programming Jokes, you are probably not a nerd. Example:

Two strings walk into a bar and sit down. The bartender says, "So what'll it be?"

The first string says, "I think I'll have a beer quag fulk boorg jdk^CjfdLk jk3s d#f67howe%^U r89nvy~~owmc63^Dz x.xvcu"

"Please excuse my friend," the second string says, "He isn't null-terminated."